Lauraplant82

Hi there! I'm a mid-30s, Torontonian, virgo, true-crime obsessed, horror-obsessed, travel-obsessed, ...scrabble-obsessed, stargazing wannabe-novelist. I'd love to meet ya! :D Here is the link to my submission for Pophorrors 'meet the writers' segment: https://pophorror.com/meet-our-writers-laura-plant/

Cheers To Lance Henriksen On His Birthday!

Lance Henriksen was born in Manhattan, NY, on May 5th, 1940. This month brings us his 80th birthday and we want to pay tribute to the man who brought us six decades of work in the horror and sci-fi genres. He has conquered both film and television with classic roles …

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Happy Birthday… Friend: ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ (1935) Retro Review

“I love dead. Hate living,” are the tortured words spoken by Frankenstein’s monster in the timeless 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, which turns 85 on May 6, 2020. The legendary film was directed by James Whale (Frankenstein 1931, The Invisible Man 1933) and released by Universal in 1935, and depicts …

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Is ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (2019) Worth the Climb?

All of you classic horror fans are in luck, because in a wildly experimental and damn curious fervor, I watched both the Jacob’s Ladder movies back to back, the 1990 version starring Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption 1994), and the upcoming Jacob’s Ladder reboot starring Michael Ealy (Underworld Awakening 2012), Jesse …

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‘Near Dark’ 30 Years Later: Sink Your Teeth Into This Cult Classic Once Again This Halloween

As Halloween approaches, we horror fans often feel compelled to embrace the scary movies we loved so much as children. One of mine was (and is) Near Dark, the vampire cult classic that was released three decades ago on October 2, 1987. The film directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt …

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PopHorror Celebrates The Mastery of William Friedkin

When we hear the name William Friedkin, many of us immediately think of 1973’s The Exorcist (Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn). Friedkin, who turns 82 years old on August 29, 2017, is the director of what is thought to be one of, if not the best, horror film of all time. Friedkin’s …

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Meet Our Writers: Laura Plant

Hello, my lovelies! Here is everything you ever wanted to know about a strange girl from Toronto, Ontario Canada (originally from London, On, which was once the serial killer capital of the world…*hint* I love true crime). My name is Laura Plant. If electricity and equipment were not a problem, …

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‘The Sixth Sense’ (1999) Is Still Commanding Us – Retro Review

On August 6, 1999, anxious viewers of The Sixth Sense shivered in their seats as the cute little boy, Cole, known to his peers as “freak,” revealed his big secret. From that moment on, “I see dead people” has become a phrase possibly more known than the movie itself. Young Cole …

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