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Ghosts of Life
The day looked as I felt when I traveled to stay with my aunt in the country. “For the fresh air” I had told her when I wrote to her two months before. As I drew up to her house in the cab she had sent for me, I almost felt a flash of relief. Almost. Aunt Rebecca’s house is what one would call a “stately chateau”. I didn’t care how big her house was, the premise was and would stay “fresh air”. The downpour had ceased during the drive, and so I entered Aunt Rebecca’s house only damp.
By Abby Siegel7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Color Out of Space' (2019)
Back in my review of Mandy, (2018) I complained that I didn't get the ultimate Nick Cage experience I was promised. I was told it would be full force, category 5, Nicolas Cage. I was expecting Cage to deliver the ham of godly proportions. The reason this was so important to me, is that it was litmus test for this movie, Color Out of Space (2019).
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Virus APFFF
All you hear about on the news today is the Coronavirus and how bad it's getting. You hear about the quarantine and the rising number of the infected and deaths. What the media isn't telling you is the real ground zero, where the virus really originated from.
By ElRey Niffen7 years ago in Horror
Surviving the End
Day 10 after the fatal day: Chris and I start noticing the rumors... They seem to be accurate, before the bombing we heard that if this was to happen, if this chemical warfare shit was true. By day 9 the people that were dead which was nearly everybody I knew would start moving limbs 1 by 1. I don’t know what is happening, I’m scared. Me and my brother both.
By Chris Williams7 years ago in Horror
Scary Disney: Snow White: The Evil Queen
Once upon a time a sweet innocent, naive, young girl lived with her vain, wicked, self-centred, jealous step-mother. And jealous of Snow White she was. The Queen was cruel enough to want her own child killed just because a talking mirror told her she wasn’t the fairest in all the land. So she sends her Huntsman into the forest with Snow White and orders for him to kill her and bring back her heart in a box. But, the Huntsman doesn’t have the heart to do it, he tells Snow White the Queen is out to get her and she should run away. Deep in the forest she finds a cottage, a dwarfs cottage, she cooks and cleans for the dwarfs but the Queen finds her, turns into an old peddler woman, poisons her with an apple, runs away from the dwarfs but plunges to her death after falling off a rock. A prince finds her in the forest and wakes her with true loves kiss, they live happily ever after. Though they do live happily ever after, a few scenes from the movie do enough to give you nightmares.
By Sara Sparrow7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Fantasy Island'is Corporatized Horror Trash
Fantasy Island is a tedious attempt at reviving familiar I.P with a ‘twist.’ What if we take a forgettable 1970’s TV show and make it a horror movie? Clever? The result certainly is not clever or interesting. Rather, the remake of Fantasy Island as a Blumhouse horror movie with a sub-B-List cast reeks of corporate interference and of a director who is more hack than actual director, only capable of forgettably transmitting corporate dictates into a bland screen product.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
‘The Invisible Man’ (2020) Movie Review
Inspired by the classic novel by H.G. Wells, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man is the story of Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) and her ex-boyfriend, Dr. Adrien Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Dr. Griffin is a brilliant scientist, but a very abusive partner. After Cecilia finally escapes, he kills himself. But after some unseen being starts tormenting her, Cecilia deduces that he is not only alive, but has also figured out a way to turn himself invisible. Everyone thinks she’s hysterical, including her sister (Harriet Dyer) and her good friend James (Aldis Hodge), a police officer who harbored her while she was hiding from Adrien. Now, Cecilia must not only prove that Adrien is alive, but stop him before he hurts anyone else.
By Will Lasley7 years ago in Horror
Predictions for HBO’s 'The Last of Us' TV Series
Ironically amidst the spread of a virus that has the world panicking, Naughty Dog vice president Neil Druckmann revealed that a The Last of Us TV series is in production at HBO. Joining Druckmann on the creative end is Chernobyl creator and writer, Craig Mazin. It’s two names you absolutely do want attached to a TV adaptation of The Last of Us as both have had experience in pulling heartstrings and crafting horrifying imagery.
By Mark LoProto7 years ago in Horror
The Lighthouse Movie Review
The slow burn is an unapologetic style of filmmaking; it doesn’t aim to appeal to a broad audience, nor does it conform to popular trends. After debuting to the masses with 2015’s The Witch, director Robert Eggers has brought us “The Lighthouse”, a masterful creation that ranks among the creepiest and most suspenseful films ever made.
By Robert Cain7 years ago in Horror
Stephen King's Dreamcatcher - Looking past the Sh*t-Weasels
“Jesus-Christ-bananas, The Beav said. Pete had once made a list of Beav-isms, and Jesus-Christ-bananas was high on it. Along with such standbys as doodlyfuck and kiss my bender.” (King, Stephen. Dreamcatcher: a Novel. Scribner, 2001.) Does that sound like a quote from a familiar classic novel? A literature masterpiece, perhaps? Well, of course it doesn’t. Rather that quote comes from the mouth of Pete Moore as he muses on the fellow-character they like to call; Beaver, in Stephen King’s ‘Dreamcatcher’. King is an extremely popular writer whose body of work is widely known as large & daunting. Among his total of around 63 books is that title 'the average-reader’ might not recognize. With such a large variety of work, it comes as no surprise that ‘Dreamcatcher’ seems to have been overshadowed by some of King’s more hit classics. How well could a book about aliens eating their way out of people in….a distressing way (to be discussed later) do when paired against ‘The Shining’, ‘The Stand’ or ‘IT’ (And both of those titles concern Derry, Maine)? The answer is pretty poorly in the eyes of most Stephen King fans & followers. ‘Dreamcatcher’ is often ranked at the bottom of King lists (both book & movie adaptation). While the novel isn’t immune to problems, ‘Dreamcatcher’ is actually a secret little gem among King’s body of work. The novel expresses the classic King trope of following a group of old childhood friends in an endearingly familiar yet new way. Which inherently gives the reader one of the most important pulls to a book; genuine care for the fictional characters. And that is very beneficial considering the story itself is founded in body horror that is actually effectively creepy. From this creatively creepy story, there are just so many odd details that really enhance the story in a genuinely charming way. This is a Stephen King book that is truly unique. It’s time to take a deep-dive into the reasons why the novel is underrated yet also explain the reason why everyone hates it for the wrong reason while ignoring the completely valid reason to hate it, which is seemingly it’s own unpopular opinion.
By Jaime Burbatt7 years ago in Horror
