“There I was, so awfully dead in that electric chair.” Here’s how you make a sequel to The Exorcist. I knew going into this that The Exorcist III: Legion is better-regarded than the execrable...
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31 Days of Fright: Exorcist II: The Heretic
“Those bad dreams are still inside you.” The Exorcist never needed a sequel, and it was always going to get one. William Friedkin’s film was too successful and too influential – it was nominated...
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31 Days of Fright: Rabid
“I’m hideous, doctor! I’m crazy! I’m a monster!” Watching early David Cronenberg films is like listening to a band’s demo tape. You can sense the themes and iconography that he would later hone to...
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31 Days of Fright: The Ward
“You stay locked up long enough and you start to believe you’re nuts.” As of this writing, John Carpenter is still alive, which means he has the chance (or the obligation) to end his...
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Nintendo Announces Alarmo, The Nintendo Alarm Clock
All they really need are Waluigi “Waa”s in time with normal alarm beeps. You read that right. Coming in 2025, Nintendo brings you the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo. And it’s feature rich. First, and...
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31 Days of Fright: Books of Blood
“The dead can be heard all around these abandoned streets.” I promise I’m trying with Clive Barker. His sense of horror might run parallel to mine, but works like The Thief of Always, The...
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31 Days of Fright: Jakob’s Wife
“My thoughts are drenched in blood.” Horror has a Barbara Crampton problem. The problem isn’t with Crampton herself, who has been an icon of the genre since Re-Animator came out 39 years ago. The...
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Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports Review
GameMill isn’t a game publisher known for quality. They normally push out licensed fluff based on cartoon properties. I’m not going to knock them for how they make their money and they have released...
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31 Days of Fright: Dagon
“All worship Dagon, or die.” I really wanted to get some Lovecraft in this year’s 31DOF. At first I was going to write about 2019’s truly excellent Color Out of Space, but then I...
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31 Days of Fright: Children of the Corn (2023)
“Nothing ever really dies in the corn.” There have now been eleven Children of the Corn feature films, plus one short, which is enough that I’m comfortable saying: what are we doing here? Sure,...
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31 Days of Fright: Children of the Corn
“He Who Walks Behind the Rows will decide your fate.” Look, it was the 1980s, okay? Putting Stephen King’s name on anything basically meant that you could print money. This was the era of...
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