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Horror in the Time of COVID-19
Spoilers ahead for the original Friday the 13th. Which, for the record, came out 40 years ago. Sorry not sorry. My partner and I have been working from home together for the last four weeks or something (idk what even is time anymore), and almost that entire time I’ve been depressed. Don’t get me wrong,…
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“We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes”
So Pshycho is…..definitely a movie. I imagined I would spend this blog post talking about what a dick Alfred Hitchcock was but I just have too much to say about this movie. I was really enjoying it up through the shower scene. The tension is ominous and tight. The acting holds up. My favorite scene…
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I’ll Stop Wearing Black When They Make a Darker Color
We interrupt your regularly scheduled horror programming for a blog that has been sitting in my draft queue since 2018 and I am just finishing now. Just when I think I’ve grown up, Fall Out Boy comes out with a new album and proves me wrong, and right. Fall Out Boy is one of those…
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TIL I Have a Murder Weapon in My Purse: Halloween
While I was trying to figure out exactly what I needed to watch to get a Proper Horror Movie Education, the three that kept coming back to me as the foundation of the slasher genre were Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween. Well, now I’ve seen Halloween. Halloween is the slasher movie. Every bit of…
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Needles, Dead Doves, and Pee Won’t Get You Babes: Hellraiser & The Hellbound Heart
CW: sexual assault Alrighty, we’ve got this horror stuff up and running with Clive Barker’s 1987 classic Hellraiser. I’d watched this probably seven years ago and forgotten almost all of it. There is a first in here though: I read my first Clive Barker book. I read the novella The Hellbound Heart, which Hellraiser is…
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Fake Horror Geek Alert
I have a confession to make: I haven’t seen Psycho. Or Halloween. Or Friday the 13th. Or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Or The Exorcist. Or Scream. Or Night of the Living Dead. The list goes on. Name a horror movie that you think is central to the classic horror cannon. I probably haven’t seen it. I’ve…
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Yeah, We Kill People, but We Also Like Waffles.
Two assassins walk into a diner. You know the type. Snappily dressed, probably with a badass soundtrack running behind them (when they’re not in the diner, at least). They enjoy the little things in life. Girl Scout Cookies, Big Kahuna Burgers, Scrunions. They also probably have a favorite gun, but aren’t afraid to get creative.…
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One thing Bugged Me about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (A Brief History of the Comics Code Authority)
I am slowly falling for the charms of Spider-Man. I’ve been a long time, vocal “Spider-Man is overrated” person. But Miles Morales has won my heart. I love Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It was sweet, heartfelt, funny, and not Infinity War, so I’m set. Also I cannot stop listening to this soundtrack (I am listening…
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I am not Picasso
I had a drawing teacher in college who told us a story about Picasso that I’m not sure is true. He said that one of Picasso’s friends was visiting, and during the visit he spilled some coffee. Picasso grabbed a handful of drawings to mop up the spill. Picasso’s friend started freaking out, asking him…
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Literally Just a 5-Paragraph Essay About How Gremlins is a Christmas Movie
This essay dedicated to my fiance, Kevin, with whom I have this argument every damn year. Every year, celebrators of the “Yes, we put trees in the house, and yes, that is perfectly normal” holiday gather around their television sets to watch their favorite films to get in the Christmas Spirit™. For some, this film…