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Feb. 17, 2025

Laugh, Love, Scream: Actors Who’ve Nailed Both Rom-Coms and Horror Films

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for lovers — it’s the perfect time to celebrate some of the most iconic actors who’ve tackled both romantic comedies and horror films. As we prepare for our episode reviewing the romantic come…

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Feb. 14, 2025

Bloody Valentines: How to deal with heartbreak from your favorite horror movies

Sometimes, love stinks. We’ve all had moments in our lives where every hint of love or Valentine’s Day spirit makes us want to swing a pickaxe at all those lucky enough to be in love. But before you decide to don a miner’s outfit …

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Feb. 9, 2025

Like a Virgin: Binx Pino, You “Get Out” What You Put Into Love

Some of us have been in the horror movie space for so long that it may feel like nothing can surprise us anymore. We’ve seen the classics, the remakes, the requels, and analyzed them all down to their cinematic atoms.  We’ve memori…

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Jan. 20, 2025

25 Years of Looking Up to Dewey Riley: A Fan Retrospective

Note: This article was originally written in 2022 in celebration of the release of Scream (2022), and it’s now being shared with Hack or Slash for the first time in honor of the movie’s 3 year anniversary. There are spoilers for the firs…

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Jan. 15, 2025

Screamboat (2025) Hits Choppy Waters, Theatrical Release Delayed

Steven LaMorte's upcoming twisted reimagining of Disney’s Steamboat Willie (which recently entered the public domain) is making waves — but not without some turbulence. Originally set to hit theaters in January, Screamboat has now bee…

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Dec. 30, 2024

Finding Courage and Integrity through Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Julie James

As someone who has a December birthday, the end of the year has always enveloped me in a double dose of reflection. Not only for the year that’s come and gone as we anticipate a new calendar to fill with personal ambitions, but also the contem…

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Dec. 23, 2024

Like a Virgin: Kris Rojas, Black Christmas, and the Fear that Never Fades

Everyone remembers their first. The heady cocktail of excitement and anxiety, the blood, the afterglow of doing something that feels wicked and wrong yet also, somehow feeling inexplicably in love. Yes, everyone remembers their first horror movie e…

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Nov. 14, 2024

The Case for Remakes

It is not an entirely false generalization to say that remakes are a large portion of the media we consume and see advertised (sometimes ad nauseum) every cinematic year. Very few things nowadays sprout from original IP, and the horror genre is far …

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Nov. 10, 2024

Why Anna Valery is my Favorite Character in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

The second season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has come to an end, which also brings our character’s time in France to a close. Before looking ahead to the next season, I wanted to look back on my favorite character in the show.Spoilers ah…

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Nov. 5, 2024

Even Final Girls Get Scared

It seems almost too cliché to say that living through one “unprecedented historical event” after another feels like one long horror movie. There are villains who could win, heroes who could fall, seemingly inescapable scenarios, a…

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