American Horror Story has always been sort of hit or miss for me. With the exception of Murder House and Roanoke, I don’t think I have ever finished a season. It usually, for me, seems to be chock full of filler to pad out the time for the next scare, and it feels disingenuous. Obviously, Ryan Murphy […]
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It’s always a refreshing feeling when an author can take a reader on a journey they weren’t expecting. The simple subversion of ideas nearly a quarter of the way through a novel can have lasting effects on the feeling throughout the rest of the novel; it creates that constant feeling of unease with the thought […]
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There were many different ways, at least six, I wanted to start off my review of Nick Cutter’s The Troop. One was going to be a long ridiculous story comparing humans to long parasitic worms poisoning the figurative insides of the earth, another opening was going to be me talking about how, after reading this, whenever […]
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Imagine that two people—hundreds of thousands of miles apart, in a worldwide pandemic—create two uncannily similar films. One started filming just shortly before lockdown, while the other was filmed entirely in lockdown. This obviously can’t happen, right? One of these films must be copying the other…right? Weirdly enough, this is somewhat of a common occurrence […]
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While Until Dawn was not the first release from the now superstar video game developer Supermassive Games, it was the game that really got them on the map. Until Dawn, written by horror icons Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, took the idea of making a slasher film to a whole new level. The game went on to […]
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