Charlie Cargile

Indianapolis based Horror journalist. Lover of most things Horror (especially Indie), Pop Punk and the strange and unusual.

Take Back the Knife (2015) – Movie Review

I’ve often found myself wondering after watching slasher films what the heroines lives would be like after surviving a serial killer and becoming a killer themselves. How would they deal with the trauma? Would they continue killing? Would they just go back to their normal lives and try to pick …

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Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber (2015) – Movie Review

Jim VanBebber is a name I first heard shortly after dropping out of high school, around the time I started reading Fangoria magazine. I read an article about his film The Manson Family and how it took almost 15 years to make. I got to see all of these bloody, …

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Dolly Deadly Gets A Rock Musical Sequel, Dolly Deadly 2

One of my favorite movies of 2016 was director Heidi Moore’s Dolly Deadly, a film that follows Benny, an 8-year-old living in a trailer park with his grandmother. His only friends are his deceased mother’s doll collection, which he vividly hallucinates as being alive. He is frequently bullied by the …

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Hada (2015) Short Film Review

Think back to when you were a child. Remember the fear you felt when you were alone at night in your bedroom: the shadows dancing across the walls, the groans of the pipes and creaks of the house settling…  the overwhelming feeling of dread. That is the feeling that the …

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The Clown Attacks (2016) – Short Film Review

Clowns are something that a lot of people tend to be terrified of even more so following the recent mass hysteria across the country of clowns supposedly terrorizing towns at night. Have you ever thought of the effect this would have on your normal everyday garden variety clowns? The kind …

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Dismembering Christmas (2015) Movie Review

There are a ton of Christmas themed horror films out there. For every holiday themed classic like Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) and Gremlins (1984), you have more than a few others that just don’t cut it.When I first heard about Dismembering Christmas (2015), the title immediately caught my attention and …

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Secret Santa (2015) – Movie Review

There are several different Christmas traditions that people do every year. One that my friends and I do ever year is secret Santa. Secret Santa is where you draw names and buy gifts for the person you draw, keeping it a secret till you give the person their gift. Now …

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The Laughter (2016) – Movie Review

Clowns. They were stalking the streets at night awhile back and then it just stopped. No one knows if it was a PR stunt for an upcoming film, a vast conspiracy to turn our attention away from current events or just a bunch of shitty assholes with nothing better to …

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Plan 9 (2015) – Movie Review

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) is widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made. I’ve tried to watch it once or twice and never managed to finish it. I always thought the original had a decent idea and I always wondered how it would have turned out if …

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Horror Icon Patrick Wilson to Play Aquaman Villain

Earlier today it was announced that Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring, Insidious) is set to play Orm/Ocean Master in director James Wan’s Aquaman. Orm is the younger brother and frequent villain of Arthur Curry/Aquaman. Orm’s origins have varied from continuity to continuity. Currently, he is the Atlantean born half-brother of Aquaman …

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