By the end of the twentieth century, the bloom had come off the rose for John Carpenter. After dominating the entire horror genre in the 1980s, the 1990s proved to be less profitable for...
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31 Days of Fright: Housebound
“There are one or two occupants who have yet to leave the premises.” I hadn’t intended doing any horror comedy this year, because, well, I like writing about horror more than I do about...
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31 Days of Fright: Prom Night
“Killers are coming! Killers are coming!” Halloween changed everything. John Carpenter’s micro-budget slasher opened the floodgates, all while proving that the long-neglected genre was economically viable. In the wake of Halloween, imitators follow, as...
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31 Days of Fright: Hatchet
“These are his woods.” If you interact enough with the horror community – on Twitter, or Reddit, or any sort of fan page – someone will inevitably recommend you watch Hatchet. Do not listen...
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31 Days of Fright: The Wretched
“She’s making people forget their own children.” A solid opening can sometimes spell doom for a movie. It Follows and The Conjuring make good on theirs; Dawn of the Dead and The Bye Bye...
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31 Days of Fright: 1408
“Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room.” Stephen King is such a proven quantity for movies that even his writing exercises get adapted for the big screen. I’m not...
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31 Days of Fright: Fright Night
“You deserve to die, boy.” Roger Ebert once wrote: “Say ‘Dracula’ and you smile. Say ‘Nosferatu’ and you’ve bitten into a lemon.” In the 1980s, there was a concerted effort in American film to...
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Buckle up for 31 Days of Fright!
Good evening, boys and ghouls! Ready to get spookified? You jerks? Well, here’s the watchlist for this year’s installment of 31 Days of Fright. I’ve also included any streaming options, but I am writing...
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Every American Horror Story season, ranked
With American Horror Stories in the bag, and the tenth season of the flagship show American Horror Story, entitled Double Feature, just around the corner, it’s time for GAMbIT to do what the internet...
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Slasher: Flesh and Blood: “Thicker Than Water”
If there was one show whose return I was decidedly not excited for, it was Slasher. I couldn’t even review the third season because it was so mind-numbingly bad, just a cavalcade of awful...
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Who will (and who should) win at the Oscars
The Oscars are finally happening. It’s been a long, strange trip, and the resultant group of nominees is the most diverse in the history of the Academy, not to mention the most interesting in...
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GAMbIT’s Oscar Nomination Predictions
Boy, those Golden Globe nominations sure were dire, huh? In a year with several excellent films about being Black in America, the HFPA decided they’d rather take selfies with Sia and James Corden. Thankfully,...
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