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90s Teen Slashers: ‘Final Destination’

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on May 13, 2020May 12, 2021

A great movie to emphasize ‘fuck death!’ Originally a draft X-Files script, Final Destination was supposed to be an ‘anti-slasher’ movie. It’s an anti-something, all right. It gets crazy, it gets dumb. Let’s die-ve into Death’s Die-sign!

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90s Teen Slashers: ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on May 5, 2020May 12, 2021

I Know What You Did Last Summer is ‘prime’ teen slasher horror. Our cast is quintessentially 90s. The villain cloaked in an improbable, vaguely menacing costume. The script has the depth of a puddle. It is not a good product. But it is entertainingly mock-able.

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How a Horror Nerd Copes in Crisis

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

Horror is something I truly love. It gives me an escape. It makes me think. It gives me catharsis. It gives me a creative buzz. But currently, it’s tremendously psychologically difficult to engage with.

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Why The Lodge Offers Cold Comfort

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on February 23, 2020

The Lodge has offerings that any horror fan can appreciate—creepy dolls, 80s home-videos, cults, clips from The Thing, etc. But it is a bleak jaunt to the cinema.

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Why Dread is My Favorite Horror RPG

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on February 17, 2020May 12, 2021

Dread is a modest love letter to great gaming and great horror. An innocent Jenga® tower is all you need to play. But players soon find that 54 stacked little wooden blocks can breed terror.

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Why ‘Gretel and Hansel’ gets Lost

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on February 2, 2020May 12, 2021

“Let me tell you something about these tattoos, okay? That is Wiccan, that is Icelandic, that is Jewish, that’s just gibberish. They are completely conflicting ideologies, and that does not make you a wicked witch, it makes you full of shit!”

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  • Histories and Legends

12 Crimes of Christmas: Part 3

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on December 23, 2019December 23, 2021

Part 3 in our 12 Crimes of Christmas Series! Featuring: Edgar Poe, Al Capone, a deadly dinner, and a very bad Santa!

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  • Histories and Legends

12 Crimes of Christmas: Part 2

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on December 23, 2019December 23, 2021

Part 2 in our 12 Crimes of Christmas Series! Featuring: A quaint pie murder, one man’s revenge against Domino’s pizza, a missing family, and a bank robbery featuring St. Nick!

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  • Histories and Legends

12 Crimes of Christmas: Part 1

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on December 23, 2019December 23, 2021

Part 1 in our 12 Crimes of Christmas Series! Featuring: Santa’s gruesome origin story, a fake kidnapping, a real kidnapping, and Ted Bundy himself!

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  • Classics

Why It ’s A Classic: Psycho

  • by Your Intrepid Host
  • Posted on December 6, 2019December 6, 2019

‘Psycho’ captures a portrait of America at a particular point in time, but also speaks to universal themes in American fiction.

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