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American Horror Story: Roanoke :: Blood and a big bombshell
So let's recap real quick since last week's American Horror Story left us so stunned we forgot to do a post about it! So crazy Agnes showed up, killed Sidney and his crew, feeling momentary guilt for killing a young ...
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella weaves its magic on stage
We probably all know the story of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, mostly from the Walt Disney animated version. Famed Broadway composers Rodgers and Hammerstein also created a musical version of the story, but not for the stage. Their Cinderella ...
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Keep the lights on during Lights Out
Warner Bros. and New Line had a winning streak over the summer with two fairly low budget (by studio standards) horror films. The Conjuring 2 cost $40 million to producer and earned a whopping $320 million worldwide. The studio followed ...
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Miss Hokusai is a beautiful film that may not be accessible to outsiders
Miss Hokusai is a new Japanese animated movie based on the historical manga series of the same name. The manga tells the story of Katsushika O-Ei, the daughter of famed 19th century Japanese artist Hokusai, who painted in the ukiyo ...
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The Conjuring 2 conjures up some scares on Blu-ray
I love the classic haunted house films like the original The Haunting that left almost everything to the viewer's imagination, and I am a sucker for the "real life" TV shows about ghostly encounters (though not so much the ghost ...
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Scare Campaign is a slasher film that messes with your mind
Hidden camera prank shows have been around for as long as television has. In fact, they've been around even before television! The classic hidden camera show Candid Camera actually started life on radio as Candid Microphone which gave listeners a ...
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Daughter of Dracula is 70s kitsch with little horror
Being a long-time movie buff and horror fan, I've heard and read about director Jess Franco for decades, yet I've never seen a single film from his prolific career ... until now. And it begs the question: why is this ...
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Win a digital copy of Scare Campaign from iTunes for Halloween
The crew of a reality TV prank show facing dwindling ratings decides to up the ante by setting up a terrifying prank in an abandoned asylum. Things go horribly wrong when they prank the wrong guy. Brothers Colin and Cameron ...
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American Horror Story: Roanoke enter a new phase
Chapter 6 of this season's American Horror Story totally flipped the script on us. Okay, we knew the first five episodes were part of some kind of reality docuseries, even though some people kept forgetting that all of the horrific ...
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Ouija: Origin of Evil has old school scares
Horror movie fans, and movie fans in general, reacted quite negatively when Universal announced they would be bringing another board game to the big screen after the debacle that was 2012's Battleship. But under the guidance of Jason Blum's Blumhouse ...
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Why all the hate? Keeping Up with the Joneses is just fine
Action comedies are not easy. For every Rush Hour there’s a Rush Hour 3 and for every Men in Black, there are two sequels. And so on. Usually the secret is a combination of fun action in a movie that’s ...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show remake fails to capture the original’s spirit
Back in August, Fox released the first thirty minutes of their remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to preview and it was not impressive. It took all of my will to sit down and watch the rest of the ...
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