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31 Days of Horror, Day Seventeen: Uzumaki

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Published: October 17, 2024 13:36

For years, fans of horror manga master Junji Ito have been waiting for a worthy adaptation of his spiral-obsessed masterpiece, Uzumaki. Well, the wait is over. The Uzumaki anime adaptation is finally here, and wow wow wow, it’s a wondrous, terrifying…

31 Days Of Horror, Day 16: Cathy’s Curse

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Published: October 16, 2024 12:46

“Your mother’s a bitch!” exclaims the man. “She’ll pay for what she did to you.” And thus Cathy’s Curse opens! Picture it: 1947. A father and daughter perish in a fiery car crash while pursuing the mother who’d left them. Fast-forward three decades, and we…

31 Days Of Horror, Day 15: Halloween Fragrances From Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

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Published: October 15, 2024 12:42

I was planning on posting this up as the culmination of 31 Days of Horror as I did last year, but… 1. I finished these reviews last night, and I am impatient. If something is done, the temptation to share it is too great not to do it immediately! ‘ And 2.…

31 Days of Horror, Day Fourteen: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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Published: October 14, 2024 13:31

Every October, there’s at least one or two evenings where the occasion of a “family movie” is called for. Yvan has two brothers, and both of their birthdays occur over the course of this month. This means that one of them flies in from out of state (the…

31 Days of Horror, Day Thirteen: I Saw The TV Glow

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Published: October 13, 2024 11:30

Were you the kid who sat on the floor next to a grimy, dusty corner of a vending machine to eat lunch alone? I was. I was reminded of this in some of the opening scenes of I Saw The TV Glow. A part of me wishes that I’d had a kindred weirdo to connect […]

31 Days of Horror, Day 12: Evil

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Published: October 12, 2024 13:10

I started watching Evil over the summer, but as I am still watching it—in fact, I watched an episode last night—I think it totally counts toward my October viewing. Everyone in the world already knows all about this show but me, so I feel like an asshole…

31 Days of Horror, Day Eleven: Miscellaneous Spooky Stuff

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Published: October 11, 2024 12:44

No movie-watching in the last day or so. Hurricane concerns and issues, pre-and-post, didn’t leave time for it. Luckily, the storm had mostly fizzled by the time it reached us, but it’s always an anxious, paralyzing time in the day/hours leading up to…

31 Days of Horror, Day Ten: Dark Waters

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Published: October 10, 2024 12:46

Ever since Jack mentioned Dark Waters in his Morbid Scholar’s Treasury of Euro Gothic Cinema, I have been desperately itching to watch this film! Jack described it thusly: “Straddling the line between Gothic horror and folk horror, Dark Waters is a…

31 Days of Horror, Day Nine: Smile

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Published: October 9, 2024 12:58

To be honest, I am not sure why I watched this one. I guess it’s been on my list since last year, and I must have put it there for a reason—though I sure couldn’t tell you what that reason was. Rose Cotter is a psychiatrist whose professional life takes a…

Last Night I Went To Manderley Again (sort of? Via a podcast!)

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Published: October 9, 2024 01:27

I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the Paperback Perfumes podcast, where I was given an intriguing challenge: to pair a book with a perfume. My choice? Daphne du Maurier’s timeless classic, Rebecca. In the promotional materials, Claire used an…

31 Days of Horror, Day Eight: Four Books

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Published: October 8, 2024 13:12

Polybius by Colin Armstrong is a horror novel that plunges readers into a nightmare unfolding in a small coastal town in 1982. At the story’s center is Andi, a smart, tech-savvy teenager working at the local arcade/movie rental place, where the trouble…