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Classic Movie Review: 'Scanners
It is incredibly reductive that when many people think of David Cronenberg they think of Scanners. Scanners isn’t a bad movie, per se, but it should not be the first movie or even the second movie that people think of when they think of a master such as Cronenberg. With movies like The Brood, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence and Videodrome, it says something sad about our culture that people just want to remember an exploding head.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Screaming With No Mouth. Third Place in Cursed Images Challenge.
I grew up in the trailer parks of Northern California, where the meth crisis is at its peak. Our property was always a graveyard for axel-greased car parts and gutted cars. Tractors get overtaken with weeds almost instantly if they’re not used. And just beyond this hell hole was a cherry orchard. When there wasn’t food in the cupboards, I’d spend all day in the peach orchard, gorging on fruit, my shoeless feet caked in dirt, my hair unwashed for days on end.
By Sarah London6 years ago in Horror
A Clerk's Strained Civility
The old hanging bell chimed as the wooden door slowly opened. The clerk lifted her eyes from the hidden doodle she was working on. No one had come yet that day and after three hours alone at the boulangerie, she was less than enthused to adorn a veil of customer service. She slipped the scrap of paper with her sketch of a horrifically emaciated figure under the cash register. No need to incite unnecessary chat. She could not think of a more inappropriate image to be seen in a family bakery than a sketch depicting a furious starving child.
By Natasha Perry-Fagant6 years ago in Horror
Ghost Child Photobombs at 30th Celebration
Just over 5 years ago, I attended my sister's 30th birthday bash in our local village Con Club. We live in Hayfield which is ancient village in The Peak District, known for its feature in the BBC series, 'The Village' and with evidence of inhabitation since pre-Roman times. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Hedfelt’, part of the Royal Forest of the Peak. Despite its isolated location it was an important settlement, most probably because it was situated on an ancient packhorse route between Cheshire and Yorkshire and the line of a former Roman road between Buxton and Glossop. There are still a number of historic buildings in the village, with parts of St Matthew’s Church dating from 1386, although it was largely rebuilt in the early 1800s. Nearby Fox Hall dates from 1625.
By Heidi Anne6 years ago in Horror
We Need to Talk About Michael Myers...
Arguments such as this have been going on since the beginning of time. Whether they be about political, religious or literary staples, there seems to be a silent agreement to disagree. While I’m unqualified to weigh in on those centuries-old debates, I like to consider myself qualified to lead the charge in one decades-old argument.
By Alesia Brooks6 years ago in Horror
“The Haunting of Bly Manor”: Too Many Ghosts, Too Little Horror
Beware, dear reader, as you forge ahead into this article! Beware… mostly of spoilers and not much else. The scares in this creepy tale are not that impressive for a hardened horror fan like me but it is still a pleasant watch.
By Yana Aleks6 years ago in Horror
Being watched in the Ocean
I've been diving a lot. South Africa, the Canary Islands, around the UK. I must have about 80 hours logged. So I'm no stranger to it. Yet one dive I had whilst on holiday in the Maldives last October was very different and eerie. Thinking back to it still gives me this chilling gut feeling, even a year later.
By Bradley Knight 6 years ago in Horror
Countdown - A Movie Review
You downloaded an app that tells you when you are going to die? Why? Countdown is a 2019 horror film about a woman who downloads an app that tells users when they will die. Finding out that she only has a couple of days to live, Quinn has to figure out a way to outsmart the app.
By Marielle Sabbag6 years ago in Horror
A World at War and War of the Worlds
There can be an exhilaration in watching chaos unfold in front of you and disrupt the ordinary. This is why disaster movies have been exciting and why action movies place someone in the middle of the action. For over a century, the genre of invasion literature that began in comfort before World War I for a bored audience seeking a thrill has continued that trend. But that genre changes dramatically when an actual invasion and the feeling of being unsafe is still entirely too fresh in the collective minds of the population. The films Independence Day and War of the Worlds are two examples of invasion media but can be analyzed very differently in the context of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. These films came out in 1996 and 2005, respectively, and with only 9 years separating them, they show two vastly different Americas.
By Mercurii Retro6 years ago in Horror
