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Horror Mysteries: Event Horizon (1997) - Highway to Hell

I love Event Horizon. Rewatching it recently I was shocked that the same guy that has helped the Resident Evil series limp through so many sequels made this brilliantly gruesome film. Taking place...

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Trailer Review: Gravity (2013) or Where the F@#& is Iron Man?!

Confession time guys, when I was in school it was really cool to say you wanted to be an astronaut. Maybe it was because of the resurgence of Star Trek TNG or for other non-nerdy reasons but I...

May 10, 2013 Like

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Short Film Review - Legitmate (2013)

While Canada is mired in its own Conservative government, the US has seemed permanently plagued by it's puritan values which are the soap-box for the likes of the whackadoo Tea Party platform to...

May 3, 2013 Like

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Live Blog: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

I haven't done alive blog in FOREVAR and I'm not sure why. You guys seemed to like them, I like doing them because they get written while I watch the movie without all that pesky thinking. I think...

Apr 28, 2013 Like

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Ghosts in the Machine: The Evolution of Found Footage Horror at The Black Museum

I figure if I can't shamelessly plug myself here, where can I? This Thursday April 18th I'll be giving a lecture as part of The Black Museum's Spring semester. I'll be presenting on the topic of...

Apr 13, 2013 Like

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From My Cold Dead Hand - Room 237 (2012)

For any regular readers of this blog, you know I love The Shining. It's my favourite all around horror movie and one of my favourite movies period. So when I caught wind of the documentary Room...

Apr 2, 2013 Like

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Twist and Shout: Surprise Endings in Horror Films

I really like a good twist ending, which may be surprise some people since I'm kind of a know-it-all. But I love 'em! They can have a huge impact on an audience binding them all together so as not...

Mar 28, 2013 Like

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Fancy Aprons - Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)

I do adore The Stepford Wives. But this ain't 1975 anymore. Nor is it a film. It's the made for TV sequel The Revenge of the Stepford Wives, starring Don Johnson. Need I say more? I stumbled on...

Mar 20, 2013 Like

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Twirling Towards Freedom - The Spiral Staircase (1946)

When I have a free evening and am at a loss for what to watch, I pick up this bad boy, flip to a page and pick a movie. Last night's selection was Robert Siodmak's horror/thriller The Spiral...

Mar 13, 2013 Like

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Television King: Rose Red (2002)

I guess when you write the sheer volume that Stephen King does, you're bound to repeat yourself. You can't help it. Rose Red is the biggest rip off a writer has ever done of their own work....

Mar 9, 2013 Like

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Television King: It (1990)

I haven't had a post series on here in a while so here we go with a new one. I've been recently looking back on all the Stephen King television miniseries. I remember bits and pieces of these from...

Feb 28, 2013 Like

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White Tulip: Fringe (2008-2013)

Fringe is an ambitious series. Full of wormholes, resets and alternate universes it's the kind of ongoing plot that can make an Observer's head collapse in on itself like a dying star. The basic...

Feb 23, 2013 Like

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Love is a Many Gothic Things - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

If love never dies, it's bound to get angsty at some points. In Francis For Coppola's version of Dracula, the titular Count is more love-lorn aristocrat than twisted creature of the night. I'm...

Feb 14, 2013 Like

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The Faculty of Horror

Do you wish you could hear the sound of my voice? The ongoing ramblings of my horror addled mind? All in the convenience of your own personal listening device? Well, you're in luck! At the end of...

Feb 12, 2013 Like

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From Hell - Whitechapel (2009-2012)

I've been going through a spat of rediscovering television. I don't have cable so I've been able to search out things that I would have an interest in rather than turning on my TV for the sake of...

Feb 6, 2013 Like

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Into Darkness - The Descent (2005), An Analysis

Has a song ever followed you around? On the street, in the grocery store, popping up on your iPod? It's happened to me. (thankfully not in a Fallen kind of way... I think) But I've had that...

Jan 30, 2013 Like

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Throw Mama (2013) From the Train

I think Sinister (2012) taught me a valuable lesson of not building up a film too much in my head. If I go in expecting nothing then I'm less likely to be disappointed and maybe even enjoy it a bit...

Jan 23, 2013 Like

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Based on a True Story - Horror Documentaries

I loves me a good documentary. And as I'm sure you've guessed from this blog I also have a passing interest horror films. So what could be better than a horror documentary?! Nothing. The answer is...

Jan 18, 2013 Like

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I Could Never Be Your Woman

Horror films are like a boxing ring for gender issues. Put someone's life in peril and generally you'll see some true colours come shining through. Gender in horror has inspired numerous tropes,...

Jan 11, 2013 Like

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Trailer Review: Evil Dead (2013)

I know mine will hardly be the first to be talking about the pomp and circumstance of the new red band trailer for the Evil Dead remake, but mine is not a high horse. And I went through a sparkly...

Jan 4, 2013 Like

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I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost

The films Lovely Molly (2012) and The Haunting of Julia aka Full Circle (1977) have little in common except for the plot device of a woman being hounded by some kind of demonic ghost figure which...

Dec 30, 2012 Like

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The Winter of our Discontent

Horror films are reliant on having sad plots. If there's not a death or a past trauma then there isn't a lot to build something scary off of, is there? But most horror film tread the line of bleak...

Dec 23, 2012 Like

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Best of 2012

I hesitate to say 2012 was a lackluster year. I think 2012 showed promise. Very little blew me away in genre films but those that did, holy shitpoops they were amazing. I think 2012 was the year of...

Dec 15, 2012 Like

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A Modest Proposal

Full Title: A Modest Proposal for Preventing Horror Fans from Becoming a Burden to the All Powerful Studios and Ensuring that the General Publik's Worst Fears about Horror Remain Intact. It is...

Dec 8, 2012 Like

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Trailer Review: Mama (2013) - Beware the CGI Demons

So I've watched this trailer a couple times and I'm getting a sense of deja vu. Well, emotional deja vu. The trailer for Mama (2013) is giving me the same excitement that I initially had for...

Dec 5, 2012 Like

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Watching the Detectives - Ghostwatch (1992)

Want to whip the British people into a panic? Get a respected name possessed on "live" TV and have a real-life BBC reporter ghost-murdered on the same broadcast. And keep saying it's real. Real,...

Nov 29, 2012 Like

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Sinister - I'm Going To Write the Best Blog Post Anyone's Ever Written

I really wanted to see Sinister. I also really wanted to like Sinister. I wanted to like and see it so much I saw it by myself a month after it came out. I even treated myself to nachos and the...

Nov 15, 2012 Like

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5 Most Terrifying Film Characters

Well, the leaves have settled in the wake of Halloween, Christmas (oh, I mean the Holidays) has thrown up inside the interior of every Starbucks known to man so I thought it would be a good time to...

Nov 9, 2012 Like

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Devil's Cake: Rosemary's Baby and Food

Rosemary's Baby is a fascinating exploration of paranoia, alienation and identity. There is also a hell of a lot of eating in the film. And if you include the sense of smell into the mix, then...

Nov 3, 2012 Like

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The Final Girl is Dead, Long Live the Final Girl

This post has been rattling around my brain for a while. It comes from the fact that I love final girls. I love 'em, Jerry! I grew up watching slashers which I'm sure explains a lot for some...

Oct 26, 2012 Like

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Horror Mysteries: Event Horizon (1997) - Highway to Hell

Trailer Review: Gravity (2013) or Where the F@#& is Iron Man?!

Short Film Review - Legitmate (2013)

Live Blog: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

Ghosts in the Machine: The Evolution of Found Footage Horror at The Black Museum

From My Cold Dead Hand - Room 237 (2012)

Twist and Shout: Surprise Endings in Horror Films

Fancy Aprons - Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)

Twirling Towards Freedom - The Spiral Staircase (1946)

Television King: Rose Red (2002)

Television King: It (1990)

White Tulip: Fringe (2008-2013)

Love is a Many Gothic Things - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

The Faculty of Horror

From Hell - Whitechapel (2009-2012)

Into Darkness - The Descent (2005), An Analysis

Throw Mama (2013) From the Train

Based on a True Story - Horror Documentaries

I Could Never Be Your Woman

Trailer Review: Evil Dead (2013)

I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost

The Winter of our Discontent

Best of 2012

A Modest Proposal

Trailer Review: Mama (2013) - Beware the CGI Demons

Watching the Detectives - Ghostwatch (1992)

Sinister - I'm Going To Write the Best Blog Post Anyone's Ever Written

5 Most Terrifying Film Characters

Devil's Cake: Rosemary's Baby and Food

The Final Girl is Dead, Long Live the Final Girl

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