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Sept. 13, 2024

Deliver Us from The Deliverance

In the annals of demonic possession films, The Deliverance should surely go down as one of the worst, but, it has the redeeming quality of having made me burst out laughing every time I recall some stray scene, which is probably too often for my san…

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Sept. 13, 2024

The Crow - A Review

May 13th, 1994. A date I distinctly remember, and will never forget. I had just turned fifteen, sitting with some friends in a packed theater on opening night, to watch The Crow. For any fellow Hoosiers, it might be noted that it was the long defu…

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Sept. 2, 2024

Interview W/ Colby Does Horror

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Colby of @colby_does-horror. His reviews are honest, funny, and brilliant. I definitely suggest checking him out on Instagram.   ADRIAN: What do you love about horror? COLBY: I love that it’…

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Aug. 31, 2024

Exploring the Territories

By Shel Rogers   “My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.” -Henry James I’m not a big fan of modern culture, but when I first encountered Horror to Culture, I was intrigued. It seemed…

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Aug. 19, 2024

Starve Acre - A Review

By Adrian Amiro-Wilson   Starve Acre is a newly released folk horror film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurley.    This is a quiet, haunting film. It is a bleak and unsettling ride that…

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Aug. 10, 2024

The Censorship of Art & Horror

By Adrian Amiro-Wilson   Fairytales in their truest form are some of the earliest, most terrifying forms of horror as art. They contain evil witches, curses, poisoned foods, the slicing off of toes, and cooking children in an oven. All of it …

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Aug. 10, 2024

Head Spinning - An Interview W/ C. Rommial Butler

MAD: Rommi, thanks for taking some time today to catch up! Please allow me to set the stage. We first met about 10 years ago, through a mutual friend, and aside from music I think we connected due to our love of horror. In particular, we are both in…

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July 30, 2024

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.” -Terry Pratchett   We’re going to diverge a bit on today’s essay, and explore some topics and ideas that are not horror related. This piece would probably be more…

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July 27, 2024

Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch - Review

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the newly released HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 3: FIREWATCH (2024 / Amazon Prime).   On November 10th, 2014, amateur hiker Kenny Lee Veach was on a mission to re-discover a cave he’d pr…

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July 20, 2024

The Vampyre and the God

The Vampyre thinks herself a god in her own right, and she isn’t wrong. She stalks the earth from the shadows, determining the fates of mortals, virtually undetected, a presence nevertheless felt, as a monotheistic god is often purported to do…

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