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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…

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…

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 …

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)…

Do you have a scaredy cat in your life? They are the bewildering breed of humans who shudder at the thought of jump scares and immediately leave the room when you open the Shudder app on the TV.  But just because you have those people in your …

Every October, horror movie lovers of all preferences and experiences embark on the deeply personal journey of watching at least one horror movie during every day in October to get into the spooky Halloween spirit! For some it is an opportunity to e…

This month marks the 15th anniversary of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II releasing in theaters. Over the years, I’ve grown quite fond of Scout Taylor-Compton’s portrayal of Laurie Strode. In fact, I’d go as far as to say she’…

(As written in October 2017) The 2017 coming of IT was 135 minutes of sheer modern-horror brilliance, and I don’t say that lightly. I saw the 2017 film within it’s first week in theaters, and in the time that’s passed I’ve …

No matter what you tell yourself, we all love a good scare. A reminder that safe may not be so safe. That the things which bring us comfort can easily turn against us. That the things we dismiss — movement spotted from the corner of our eye &m…