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A Dream Within a Dream: A Moment with Jeffrey Combs

Great performative art is one that is often built like the most nourishing and simultaneously decadent layer cake. This is exactly the image and sentiment I felt when I first heard about Jeffrey...

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‘Hell Hath No Fury Like Her: The Making of Christine’

Right up until the end, when the subtitle “Chapter One” gets used for the first time, I thought It (2017) would be a standalone movie. Then the jig was up because blockbusters aren’t like TV shows....

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Broadway Dancer, Golda Meir, and the Free-Spirited Rhoda: Celebrating the...

“My mother’s maiden name was McConnell. Her ancestors are Canadian, Irish, Scotch and Welsh. And, on the Harper side, they are French, English and, according to my sister, American Indian. But, I...

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Tormentors and the Tormented: Bullies in the World of Stephen King

Bullies have played a significant and recurring role in Stephen King’s work from his earliest days as a published author. In these works, the bullies represent a significant and (generally) familiar...

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Midnight Movie Monographs: Tommy (Book review)

The name Kit Power is undoubtedly familiar to many horror fans. The author of the novel GodBomb, Power’s work has also been published in magazines such as Splatterpunk and Kzine and his short stories...

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Floridian Grand Guignol: A Lookback on Terror on Church Street

Coming out of certain mouths, the word tourist can seem dirty. Downright nasty, if the speaker has enough of a chip on their hunched in, tense shoulders. But everyone is a tourist at some point in...

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The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Book Review)

Leslie S. Klinger, the annotator of The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, is a very thorough fellow. His attention to detail is intensive and his penchant for in-depth research dazzles. In...

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Looking Back at Faust: Love of the Damned

Before we begin, let me take you back to 1989. I was 13. It was the year of Tim Burton’s Batman, starring Michael Keaton. Comics were huge at the time. It was a great age to be a Marvel reader as The...

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Robert Forster’s Turn in Jackie Brown: An Appreciation

Journeyman actor Robert Forster passed away on October 11, 2019, the same day his latest movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie debuted on Netflix. Forster had appeared in more than 100 films in his...

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The Quiet Assassin in The Mechanic

Hitting centre frame in a jolt that would welcome a boisterous cheering of dedicated fans, the opening image of Charles Bronson in full close up – that introduces us to this tightly conceived, tautly...

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The Cinema of Fabian

In a recent interview for the Pure Cinema Podcast, Quentin Tarantino talked at length about his influences for the Rick Dalton character in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Among such names as Ty...

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Tom Savini’s Night of the Living Dead ’90: The Version You’ve Never Seen

When film buffs discuss the good and bad horror film remakes, Tom Savini’s 1990 reworking of the classic George Romero film Night of the Living Dead tends to get lost in the shuffle. Nevertheless, the...

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A Chat with Elizabeth Shepherd: “Tomb of Ligeia” on Film and Audio

“I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. Or,...

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Midnight Approved: The 10 Most Memorable Episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

For many viewers of my generation, no other club on the face of the Earth boasted the kind of elite membership offered by the Midnight Society. The Society featured a motley group of adolescents who...

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A Dream Within a Dream: A Moment with Jeffrey Combs

Great performative art is one that is often built like the most nourishing and simultaneously decadent layer cake. This is exactly the image and sentiment I felt when I first heard about Jeffrey...

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Ode to the Amazons: Feminism, Cheesecake, & the Art of Being Fearless

Inspiration. It’s that bolt of blue that hits every living creature, from when we’re learning to crawl until we are leaning towards the grave. What or who inspires us is varied, which is fantastic!...

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Buying a Ticket at the Suburban Grindhouse: An Interview with Author Nick Cato

The term grindhouse conjures up all sorts of images of glorious sleaze, harrowing vice, and lurid films beautifully reeking of sex and violence that permeated New York City’s pre-gentrified 42nd...

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A Hell of a Life: The Nine Lives of John Ashley

John Ashley’s never been a particularly well-known name, even among film buffs. He’s best remembered by aficionados of AIP car flicks, beach party musicals, and/or Philippine mad doctor movies. This...

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“The Ghastly One Is Coming! ByNWR Is Here!” An Interview With Jimmy McDonough...

The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan by Jimmy McDonough is now available to pre-order from Fab Press. It’s a revised, updated, and massively expanded new version of...

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An analysis of Sebastian Corbascio’s Sarah Luger

In her widely-read 2014 article “Toward a Theory of a Dead Girl Show”, Alice Bolin discusses how television mystery shows often rely on the suffering and silence of beautiful, infinitely inscrutable...

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