Review: Prodigy Is A Tense, Expertly Contained Psycho-Thriller

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Demon kids have been de rigeur in horror since scary movies were a thing, from Children of the Corn to Orphan. In fact, according to certain people, all horror movies are either about a haunted house or a scary little kid. But what happens when that scary little kid isn’t very clearly or definitively evil? […]

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Review: Demon House Takes You Where Evil Lives

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Hell has an address and it’s in Gary, Indiana. Demon House the new documentary from Zak Bagans of the hit series Ghost Adventures dares to take viewers into Gary’s most infamous house. In 2014 a story appeared in the Indianapolis Star, detailing the story of Latoya Ammons and her family and the ordeal they faced while living in the […]

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It’s Only a Movie: Is There Such a Thing as Too Far?

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There are plenty of fans out there for extreme horror. And most of them are well-rounded, well-adjusted people. There’s an appeal to seeing the most violent, shocking thing you can find onscreen. It’s taboo. It’s forbidden and with that comes a kind of dark charm. It’s cathartic to see things pushed to their limits on the […]

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Review: The Strangers: Prey at Night is a Long-Awaited Disappointment

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The Strangers was released in 2008 and was generally positively regarded by the horror community. The aloof, controlled nature of the killers paired with their apathetic victim selection strategy made for a disturbing home invasion narrative. It played with the ideas of random acts of violence spawned by the victims being in the wrong place […]

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Why Fulci’s Zombie is the Distilled Essence of Zombie Cinema

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It’s a movie of many, many titles. Over thirty years, it’s been known as Zombi 2, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Zombie Dawn of the Dead and more, but the American title Zombie—while the most simple—may also be the most apt. Since its release, the film has gained a reputation for being one of the goriest, most […]

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Why Terror Train is a Surprisingly Innovative Slasher

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The slasher subgenre boomed after the release of John Carpenter’s Halloween. Where no one was even really sure that Halloween would work—at least not in the way that it did—once it proved to be a success, everyone wanted a piece of that pie. 1980 and 1981 were crowded years, each seeing dozens of slasher releases. […]

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Seven Haunted House Movies Worth Another Look

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In the past few years, haunted house movies have returned in a big way. They dominate the found footage genre and the mainstream blockbusters alike. From the Paranormal Activity series to The Conjuring and Insidious movies, these sorts of ghost and supernatural entity features dominate the genre. But tales of haunted houses and ghost stories may actually make up the […]

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