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Guillermo Del Toro Promised the Monsters in His Childhood Bedroom He’d Be Their Friend Forever, and a Hallway He Feared Became the Devil’s Backbone
The ghost at the end of the corridor in The Devil’s Backbone grew out of a fear Guillermo del Toro carried through his grandmother’s…
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‘Crystal Lake’ Finally Explains How Jason Voorhees Seems to be Immortal
In Crystal Lake, Project Argonaut is a secret experimental program run by the Bellflower company. Its goal is to create a human capable of…
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‘Crystal Lake’ Shows How the Advances of Feminism Protect Women and Children
Set in the 1970s, Crystal Lake shows how much easier it was for an husband to trap his wife and children in a world…
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How the Blair Witch Project Convinced Viewers Its Stars Had Really Vanished
The Blair Witch Project’s actors used their real names in a story about filmmakers who vanished, and the illusion reached their families. Joshua Leonard…
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‘Crystal Lake’ Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane Knows Some Fans Won’t Like His Jason Voorhees
“Now, I know that some fans will have their machetes out because they like Jason to be a revenant, mysterious, and supernatural. I grant…
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John Carpenter Says Every Fan Theory About the Ending of ‘The Thing’ Is Wrong, and the Big Clue Is in the Movie
John Carpenter says every fan theory about the ending of The Thing is wrong, and that the answer is hiding in plain sight. Fans…
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Bryan Fuller and Don Mancini Have Cameos in Carrie, and They Both Have Connections to the Series
Bryan Fuller and Don Mancini’s cameos occur at the same time in the seventh episode of Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series. Titled “Romantic Literature,” it’s…
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‘Trauma or, Monsters All’ Is the Culmination of Larry Fessenden’s Indie Monsterverse, and It’s in Select Theaters November 4
Larry Fessenden is an actor and filmmaker whose career in film spans nearly five decades. His influence on independent cinema and the horror genre…
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Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy Got a D+ CinemaScore and Still Made $78.8 Million
“Other Mommy,” the Jessica Chastain horror release, cost about $18 to $19 million to make and has already pulled in roughly $78.8 million worldwide,…
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Willem Dafoe’s Wolf Hunter in ‘Werwulf’ Points to the Real Man Edward I Hired to Kill Every Wolf
Willem Dafoe has all but confirmed that his character in Werwulf is based on a real-life wolf hunter, Peter Corbet. Without revealing the historical…
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Billie Lourd Says She’s ‘So Available’ for a Halloweentown Prequel
Billie Lourd’s answer to a possible Halloweentown prequel is already a yes: “I’m available. I’m so available. I would absolutely love to do that.”…
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The Rage: Carrie 2 Was Dismissed in 1999, but Its Story Drew on a Real High School Scandal
In The Rage: Carrie 2, a high school football team’s sexual scoring contest ends with a girl’s suicide. That exploitation drives the 1999 horror…
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It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 Goes Back to 1935 and Promises a Pennywise You’ve Never Seen Before
Season 2 of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ goes back to 1935 and promises “a different kind of Pennywise, Pennywise the way you’ve never seen…
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Prosecutors Played Caleb Flynn’s AI-Generated Love Song for His Mistress at His Wife’s Murder Trial
Prosecutors played Caleb Flynn’s AI-generated love song for his mistress at his wife’s murder trial. The former “American Idol” contestant and worship pastor is…
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The Rich Vampire Began with a Character Modeled on Lord Byron, and Twilight Made Him a Billionaire
Lord Ruthven, the vampire in John Polidori’s 1819 story The Vampyre, gave bloodsucking a place in high society. Modeled on Lord Byron, he helped…
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Casper and Thackery Binx Were the 90s Kids’ First Movie Crushes, and Devon Sawa Still Hears About It
The two crushes in question: Casper and Thackery Binx. In the 1995 film, the friendly ghost whispers “Can I keep you?” to a sleeping…
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Someone Spiked the Titanic Crew’s Chowder with PCP in 1996, Dosing James Cameron and Bill Paxton
Asked to settle Tombstone vs. Titanic by “best catering,” Billy Zane answered: “Well, let’s see. Best catering? Be Titanic. If you like PCP. As…
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Peacock’s Crystal Lake Shows Jason Voorhees as a Sweet Little Kid, Long Before He Survives Manhattan and Space
Peacock’s Crystal Lake introduces Jason Voorhees as a sweet little kid, long before the Friday the 13th franchise turns him into the most unkillable…
