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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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Oct. 31, 2024

7 Years of Hacks, Slashes, and the Labor of Love

I was raised in Florida for the first 5 years of my life. After that I moved around every 1-2 years until I moved back home in the early 2000’s. I was only home a few years before I left for the Navy, and I grew up — really became an ad…

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Oct. 15, 2024

Juggling Fear & Fun: The Paradox of Clowns in Horror

Long before the days of Stephen King’s Pennywise or Damian Leone’s Art the Clown, the clown has had a…complex relationship with our world. For centuries, even millenia, the clown; the jester; the fool; no matter what name it has …

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Sept. 26, 2024

Haunts vs. The Haunted: Facing your fears for the fun of it

There is a stark difference in experience between sitting down on your couch or in a movie theater to watch a horror movie and immersing yourselves in those horror stories at a haunted attraction (colloquially called a ‘haunt” for short)…

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