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Witches In Horror Cinema

Something wicked this way comes… With the recent cinematic release of Robert Eggers’ The Witch, we started to think about the history of witches in genre cinema and decided to take a look back. One thing that is very clear about witches on celluloid is that they seem to fall into two very distinct descriptive …

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Look Out For… The Doll Master & Other Tales Of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates and Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt

Look Out For… The Doll Master & Other Tales Of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates “The tight, controlled prose makes the emerging dread in these stories the more profound.” Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 April 2016

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Horror Most Profound: The Many Layers to Alfred Hitchcock’s Classic ‘The Birds’ Fear of the Unknown: Ten Horror Titles That Almost Were! What Modern Horror Filmmakers Can Learn from …

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With The Benefit of Hindsight: April Fool’s Day (1986)

Guess who’s going to be the life of the party? With the first day of April being the yearly celebration of japes, pranks and general foolhardiness, it’s fitting that we begin our journey of retrospectives on the horror films of yesteryear right here. When the film came out in 1986, it was advertised with a …

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