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Shut Up and Drink Your Kool-Aid: The Brilliant Black Comedy of ‘The Slumber Party Massacre’ (1982)

In 1975, Amy Jones served as Martin Scorsese’s assistant while he directed Taxi Driver. A few years later, she turned down the chance to edit Steven Spielberg’s E.T. in order to make her 1982 directorial debut, a slasher written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown. The movie follows a slumber party’s dark demise at the…

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Chrissy Stockton

A man crouching with a video camera smiles at the camera while a grizzly bear stands in the grassy field behind him, mountains in the background.

Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Captured Timothy Treadwell’s Death by Bear on Tape, Then Refused to Play It

Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man (2005) is built from more than 100 hours of footage Timothy Treadwell shot over thirteen summers living among brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, convinced he was their protector and friend. Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, were passionate grizzly activists and wildlife preservationists who spent long camping trips among…

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Chrissy Stockton

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Vincent Price Learned to Cook, Sew, and Mend as a Boy Because His Mother Ran the House Like a “One-Woman Home Economy Class.”

Vincent Price was a horror icon did all the cooking, shopping, and cleanup in his home well into his 70s. He credited his mother for teaching all 4 kids to cook, sew, and mend, and to understand the work behind every meal. “Well I do all the cooking at home,” Vincent Price said at 75.…

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January Nelson

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‘Be My Cat’ Plays Like a Horror Version of Borat, Following a Man Who Films Himself Hurting Actresses to Impress Anne Hathaway

“I will change the world with you, Anne!” That’s the promise at the heart of ‘Be My Cat: A Film for Anne,’ a 2015 Romanian found footage film that Adrian Țofei wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. It’s been widely called one of the best low-budget horror movies ever made . The film follows Adrian,…

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Chrissy Stockton

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Stephen King Says the Scariest Movie Ever Made Is a Black-And-White Thriller from 1955 You Can Stream Free on Tubi

“It’s a hard world for little things…” In The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a con man posing as a traveling preacher who marries a widow to get at $10,000 her late husband hid with their two kids. The only person who sees through him is her 9-year-old son. The movie…

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Chrissy Stockton