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What’s The Most Popular Horror Movie In Your State?

Most Popular Horror Movie In Your State

What’s The Most Popular Horror Movie In Your State? I know that personally, I love watching any film, especially a horror film when it takes place in the state I live and I think many others do as well. There’s something fun and spooky about it all and it makes …

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Celebrating Tobe Hooper’s ‘The Funhouse’ (1981) 40 Years Later! – Retro Review

The Funhouse is one of my top horror movies, and that’s because it combines two of my favorite things… the campiness and life of a carnival and gooooooore. Released on March 13, 1981, this slasher classic packs a wallop of both. Teenager Amy (Elizabeth Berridge: Results 2015), her boyfriend, Buzz …

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Interview With Horror Icon, Barbara Crampton For Lovecraft-inspired Thriller ‘Sacrifice.’

Who does not love Barbara Crampton? She’s a genre powerhouse, a woman in horror who has helped pave the way for female representation in the industry. Barbara started out strong in the 80s and has only grown in strength and talent while building an illustrious career that has shown no …

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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge’ (1985) Turns 35 – Retro Review

I’m not sure if there ever was as much anticipation for a sequel as there was after the release of Wes Craven’s 1984 sleeper hit, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Craven always gets credit for reinvigorated the horror genre with Scream, and rightfully so. However, his biggest contribution was taking …

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Fantastic Fest 2020 Review – ‘The Stylist’ Makes a Triumphant Transition to Feature

Since her breakout debut in 2014 with her stellar short film Call Girl (check it out here), Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian has consistently left the horror masses enamored. She directed a hefty 15 short films in under five years since, each one stellar in its own right. But it was her masterful …

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Interview With ‘The Babysitter: Killer Queen’s’ Maximilian Acevedo

One of my most anticipated films of 2020 is The Babysitter: Killer Queen (read our review here), the sequel to the uber-popular Netflix original, The Babysitter (2017 – read our review here). Hands down. When they announced this film, I almost started counting the days until it would be released. That’s how …

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‘Greenlight’ (2019) Is A Sharp, Wicked Thriller – Movie Review

From writer-director Graham Denman comes a fantastic, slick thriller called Greenlight that stars Chase Williamson (The Guest 2014), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986 – read our retro review here), Chris Browing (Westworld TV series), Nicole Alexandra Shipley (Criminal Minds TV series), Victor Turpin (Ma 2019), and Shane …

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‘VHS – We’re Gonna Need Some Bigger Riffs’ (2019) Album Review

There has always been a deep connection between death metal and horror movies. Death metal lyrics have always stemmed from horror movies. Mortician’s “Chainsaw Dismemberment” is about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Cannibal Corpse’s “Code Of The Slashers” is about slasher movies in general. There are quite a few bands on …

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‘In Search of Darkness’ (2019) Is An Ecstatic Love Letter To ’80s Horror Films

At over four hours, David Weiner’s In Search of Darkness (2019), takes on the monumental task of exploring horror films of the ’80s without feeling overly long and bloated with information — and it manages it in spades. This film was made, in part, thanks to an Indiegogo campaign with …

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Fantastic Fest 2019: Mattie Do’s ‘The Long Walk’ Journeys Deep Into the Broken Heart of Grief

The tagline for Tobe Hooper’s classic horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre asks “Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?” While the marketers behind the line literally refer to the chainsaw mutilations and slaughterhouse gore of Leatherface’s exploits, they inadvertently got to the central question of all …

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