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Before You Buy the DVD: BLAIR WITCH (2016) by Jonny Numb
[89 minutes. R. Director: Adam Wingard] Summer, 2016. I took my seat in the theater and furrowed my brow at a trailer that seemed familiar. Kids in the woods. Handheld POV. Oops, someone dropped the camera! Blurbs from high-profile horror sites superimposed over panoramic aerial views of dense forests. Ominous, droning music. The title? The…
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The 2000s: Horror’s Best Decade (Part 1) by Paul J. Williams
Please allow me to preface this article with a warning and a statement: Beware! Dozens of movies are discussed and spoilers will exist, so please keep that in mind as you read. And I’m not a movie historian or expert, just a cinephile, probably like you, who enjoys horror movies. I also like to reflect…
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HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) – An Appreciation by Jonny Numb
HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) [98 minutes. R. Director: Tommy Lee Wallace] In the featurette on Scream Factory’s Blu-ray of Halloween III: Season of the Witch, producer Irwin Yablans, going to bat for the late Moustapha Akkad, takes swing after swing at the creative team, insisting that the removal of burgeoning slasher icon…
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The Walking Dead: Too Much, or Does Lucille Save the Day? by Kim McDonald
When the season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead was over, and for most of the next day, I walked around my house in a depressed daze. I cried. I felt nauseated. I even felt a bit disoriented. What was going to happen to our group now? I also felt relieved. Not because I wanted…
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The Italian All Night Splatterfest 5 – September 3, 2016 – Event Report by Jonny Numb
Gazing at the façade of the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, is like being transported through a black-and-white filter and entering a vision of small-town America in the 1950s – something out of a Twilight Zone episode, perhaps. Or one of the theatres the Losers Club frequented in Stephen King’s nostalgic classic, It. It’s fitting,…