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Halloween Love’s 40th Anniversary Black Christmas Retrospective

It’s almost always impossible to pinpoint the horror movie that started any given sub-genre, though there are films within each that have more or less had that honor bestowed upon them. Though not the first of its kind, for example, The Blair Witch Project is nevertheless seen as the ‘first’ found footage movie, due mostly

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5 Things That Happened: The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 8 — ‘Coda’

It’s somewhat unfair to review individual episodes of a TV show like The Walking Dead, as you can’t really judge any given season until the complete portrait is painted. The final strokes of this particular painting were revealed last night, as Season 5’s first half was neatly, and tragically, wrapped up. As a whole, Season

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Holiday Horror Review: Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)

By the time 1984 rolled around, Christmas was well on its way to carving out its own little niche in the horror genre, thanks to films like Black Christmas, To All a Goodnight and Christmas Evil. But it wasn’t until the ’84 holiday season that Santa Claus truly became a horror icon, when Silent Night,

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5 Things That Happened: The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 7 — ‘Crossed’

After three weeks of side stories, all of them finally came together on this past Sunday night’s episode of The Walking Dead, which essentially picked up right where each of those episodes left off. ‘Crossed’ was another filler episode before the impending mid-season battle, though a handful of important things went down… 1) OUR HEROES

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Movie Review: Jessabelle (2014)

It’s never a good sign when a planned theatrical release is suddenly dumped to VOD outlets, which is precisely the fate that befell this latest effort from the ‘are you sick of us yet?!’ production company Blumhouse. Originally, Jessabelle was set for widespread theatrical release in January of this year, before being pushed back to

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5 Things That Happened: The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 6 — ‘Consumed’

Ever since Gareth and his Terminus crew were brutally murdered by our heroes, the season’s main threat seemingly eradicated right off the bat, the focus of each subsequent episode of The Walking Dead has been placed on individual characters, including Beth and Abraham. Last night’s episode was all about Daryl and Carol, two characters who

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To Stream or Not to Stream? the Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

This past Tuesday saw the DVD release of The Taking of Deborah Logan, which marks the directorial debut of Adam Robitel. Oddly enough, it had already hit Netflix’s instant streaming service by that point, proving that those of us with a membership have truly got it made. In the film, which is of that beloved

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To Stream or Not to Stream? Mockingbird (2014)

After bursting onto the scene with writing/directorial debut The Strangers, it seemed a sure thing that the name Bryan Bertino would become one that we’d see attached to big screen horror films for many years to come. Six years later, Bertino’s long-awaited follow-up has finally arrived, though it’s likely that you haven’t even heard of

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Review: Kino Lorber’s to All a Goodnight Blu-ray

There are a small handful of holiday horror movies that have become synonymous with the Christmas season. To All a Goodnight, despite being a pioneer of the sub-genre, isn’t one of them. Predating Silent Night, Deadly Night by four years, and coming out several months prior to Christmas Evil, To All a Goodnight is the