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The Cutting Room – Mr. Mercedes

May 26, 2016
2 mins to read

Mr. Mercedes centres on a demented killer who taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Brendan Gleeson plays Detective Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is driven …

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Why Let The Right One In is the Best Vampire Story of All Time

May 26, 2016
7 mins to read

Why Let The Right One In is the Best Vampire Story of All Time With the influx of glitzy overly-romanticized vampire books, movies and television shows—True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and everyone’s favorite sparkling diamond-esque vampire flick Twilight to name a few—I think we’ve lost sight of the disgusting horror that is vampirism. Drinking blood is, …

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Child’s Play: Entry Level Horror Films for Children

May 25, 2016
8 mins to read

Child’s Play: Entry Level Horror Films for Children You may have read that a US school teacher in Tennessee was recently suspended for showing his class the horror film Human Centipede 2. His reasons may have been pure—he claims he wanted to show them what to do if you’re bullied (er, sew people together, ass …

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Book Review: The City of Mirrors (Book Three of the Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

May 25, 2016
5 mins to read

“Justin Cronin is an author at the top of his field and The City of Mirrors is a worthy and much anticipated finish to this exceptional trilogy.” With the publication of The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin established himself as a genre author to be reckoned with and more than earned the $3.75 million …