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The best villain of all time is clearly Kefka

                    Yep. That guy. He is the very definition of a psychopath. There is no tragic back story, there are absolutely no attempts to redeem the character, he starts off as comically evil and gets much darker from there. For those who don’t know, and great […]

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The Orphan Killer

The Orphan Killer is a 2011 film from writer/director Matt Farnsworth. This film gets an inordinate amount of love on the twittersphere(I will never forgive myself for saying that word) so I decided to check it out myself. A friend of mine had a copy on DVD and pretty much begged me to keep it […]

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Amityville Haunting

I don’t even know where to begin with this review so I guess I’ll start by describing the events that lead up to me watching it. Picture a bitterly cold Monday afternoon, you’re sitting at home writing some Javascript code(as you are wont to do) in preparation for an important job interview. Your brain tells […]

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Shutter vs Shutter

I tend to approach the subject of remakes differently. Instead of instantly dismissing a film, I wonder what exactly will be different about the American version to warrant a new version. There have been times when I’ve preferred the remade version of a film to the original. A good example of this is with the […]

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Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor is a 2012 game from Jasper Byrne. I would love to take the easy way out and describe it as a 2D Silent Hill but as much as I’d mean it to be a compliment, it would be doing a great disservice to what a great game Lone Survivor is. You play as […]

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Shawn’s Best/Worst of 2013

Shawn’s 10 Best Movies of 2013       10.  The Conjuring — Useless doll subplot aside, this movie had tension to spare 9.  Insidious Chapter 2 – Only slightly better than the original Insidious. 8. World War Z – I watched this with Ms.Horror-Writers and we enjoyed it. Go in expecting it to be […]

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The Stalk Stalks Back – Alan Dale Dalby

THE STALKS STALK BACK A GORDY THE PUMPKIN ADVENTURE BY ALAN DALE DALBY     It had been his first Halloween without becoming a Jack-o-Lantern and Gordy was a sad sight to see.  An old rotting pumpkin that had been passed by and kicked around by the rowdy children picking their choice canvases out.  Entire […]

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Another – Latashia Figueroa

Another By Latashia Figueroa I walk outside and start my day. Hopping, skipping along the way. Across the street, there’s Mrs. Payne. She waves at me but not the same. At the Park there’s Marcy May. I ask if she would like to play. She nods and we begin our game. She plays with me […]

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Rockband Vs Vampires Press Release/Set Photos

Jeremiah Winterford is an old-fashioned vampire who finds himself awkwardly out of place in a modern world. Forced to move from Winterford Manor following a torching by his vampiric rival Jako Van Zyl, Winterford and his surviving acolytes find themselves making a new home in Camden (London’s musical capital). Where better for a vampire to […]

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Interview with Jack And Laura of What’s Next

  Recently, I was able to interview Jack and Laura, two young Paranormal Investigators from the U.K. They’re both very kind and you can follow them on twitter here     You’re both pretty young,  what made you decide that this is something you’d like to do? We started the series when we were in […]