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Oct. 13, 2023

Flashback Friday: IT (2017)

(As written in October 2017) The 2017 coming of IT was 135 minutes of sheer modern-horror brilliance, and I don’t say that lightly. I saw the 2017 film within it’s first week in theaters, and in the time that’s passed I’ve …

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July 10, 2022

Why does the horror genre exist?

No matter what you tell yourself, we all love a good scare. A reminder that safe may not be so safe. That the things which bring us comfort can easily turn against us. That the things we dismiss — movement spotted from the corner of our eye &m…

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