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

April 15, 2016
9 mins to read

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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The Cutting Room – Flight 7500

April 14, 2016
2 mins to read

On a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, a plane is shaken by severe weather. When the turbulence subsides, a passenger suddenly dies and a supernatural force is unleashed, overtaking the passengers as they desperately fight to figure out what it is and how to stop it. Why we’re looking forward to this: We’ve seen …

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Book Review: The Sadist’s Bible by Nicole Cushing

April 13, 2016
6 mins to read

“Cushing delivers a knockout punch that’ll leave you reeling and that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last word.” Ellie Blake is a closeted lesbian with sadistic leanings, desperate to come out but unwilling to do so in the bible belt community she lives in with her fanatically religious husband. Unfulfilled and …

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I Believe in Ghosts

April 13, 2016
4 mins to read

I suppose it could be said that I grew up with ghosts and the supernatural, and that the supernatural continues to play a part in my life, being, as I am, a Christian. Often, I’ve seen a reductive view of faith expressed on social media along the lines of – those of faith believe in …