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The 2019 Samhain Awards
This past year of horror cinema has been an unholy feast. Thanks to years of templated jump scares from ghost story blockbusters, not to mention billions of dollars in streaming wars development spending, there is more dumb money out there than ever. Better yet, thanks to recent surprise hits like...
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2018 Reading List: Retrospective Selects
Considering this is coming out in the middle of Summer 2019, what follows is my most speculative Reading List to date. Perhaps it would have been better to let 2018 pass by, but the fact is my reading habit has accelerated in the past 18 months -- look at that...
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2018 Samhain Awards
Like I said last year, 2017 was an awkward run for the Halloween Industrial Complex. It was obvious that great things were on the horizon, though...and those great things, they have arrived. This year was an embarassment of riches. What follows is an objective, factual list of the best horror...
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2017 Reading List: Too Little, Too Late
Since starting my library over in 2012 -- that flood did come for some of us -- I have amassed far too many books. This summer, I will be redistributing most of them. I live in a spacious home in the woods by a river, but I am keen to...
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The 2017 Samhain Awards
This list represents an unhealthy level of engagement with horror cinema. I say that every year. That said, hasn’t been a very strong year for the genre. Should be more of a blip than a trend, there are great works on the way. In the meantime, there have been a lot...
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2016 Reading List: Too Much, Too Fast
The last time I offered up a list of book recommendations, it was 2012. Most people reading this, of course, weren’t even born then, so you can’t imagine how intense those days were. We were truly living on the edge: overloading our senses with new experiences, making peace with our...
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The 2016 Sahmain Awards
This list represents an unhealthy level of engagement with horror cinema. As ever, most of that shit was garbagewater. As ever, it was worth it. Indie auteur weirdos stay killing it, and thank Baal for that. This year's notables were the gorgeous claustrophobia of The Survivalist, the wild &...
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The 2015 Samhain Awards
I watched way, way too many violent and strange films to make the list this year. It was a good call. Most of them, obviously, were terrible. Some survived. Here’s a quick guide to the near misses: The Final Girls was a goofy, nicely shot horror comedy flick I recommend despite...
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Intelligent Horror Films 2014
It seemed like a rough year for horror, but once I did the math: I was wrong. Big, stupid horror spectacles, all plopped out by the same algorithm responsible for every mass market scare flick since Shamalyan excreted The 6th Sense, have done great at the box office. This idiot...
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Ask Hump Jones 2013 | Halloween Movies
One question this time around and I won't even quote it: basically, I was asked this morning to recommend some fucking awesome horror films. I would definitely like to do that, but first, we should get about thirteen things out of the way. I am assuming you've already seen Cabin in...
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