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Die My Love Deeply Commits to Complicated Characters

Can a house drive you crazy? I’ve seen plenty of horror movies in my time where that might seem to be the case, but usually there’s extenuating circumstances that usually feed into someone’s crisis, without it being a surface-level scenario…. Continue Reading →

Dwayne Johnson Delivers a Raw Performance in The Smashing Machine

I have always been more of a casual fan when it comes to MMA. Not the kind of guy who memorizes every fighter’s reach and ground-and-pound statistics, but the kind who enjoys catching a good fight night with friends or… Continue Reading →

Bob Trevino Likes It, Facebook Likes It and Apparently, I Do Too

It’s that magical time of year again, the start of movie awards season, when critics pretend to be classy while secretly justifying why they watched Cocaine Shark 2 “for research.” As for me, this is when I start bouncing between… Continue Reading →

The Ugly Stepsister: A Fairy Tale Makeover Gone Horribly Wrong

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think, “Man, if I could just make a few tweaks, I’d be unstoppable. Maybe drop a few pounds here, add a little muscle there…” You know, the classic mental makeover montage where I… Continue Reading →

The Spooky Season Celebrates the Weekend at the End of the World!

All Hallow’s Eve brings out the best of the entertainment spectrum, with dark fantasy, young adult, slasher and thriller themes filling movie theaters and streaming services, horror comedy might be the most overlooked subgenre of them all, and for good… Continue Reading →

Scurry Brings the Skitters, Screams and Suffocation

When I was a teenager, my family took a road trip through New Mexico and one of the stops was Carlsbad Caverns. If you’ve never been, imagine a place where the Earth seems to swallow you whole. The park ranger… Continue Reading →

Mini Horrors: Graveyard Shorts Shine at the 56th Nashville Film Festival

Like last year, the 2025 Nashville Film Festival once again proved itself as the premier film event in Middle Tennessee, drawing in cinephiles, industry insiders and first-time festival goers alike. The sheer range of films on display — from intimate… Continue Reading →

Meet Mr. Shiny of Strange Harvest: The Newest Villain to Haunt Your Nightmares

As I’ve gotten older, I find that fewer horror movies scare me. Sure, I check the backseat before getting into my car (thanks to Urban Legend), and I sometimes look under my bed just to be safe, but I don’t… Continue Reading →

The Summer of Steel, Shadows and Screams: Best of Summer 2025

Summer 2025 has been a feeding frenzy for my two biggest obsessions: comics and horror. Those are the twin engines that usually drive my choices in pop culture. But the beauty of this summer has been how those passions bled… Continue Reading →

Reviving King of the Hill Was a Good Thing, I Tell You What

For 13 years, Sundays on FOX were never meant to showcase King of the Hill, but it always seemed to happen. Sandwiched somewhere between NFL broadcasts, before (and even shown after) The Simpsons, the little show created by Mike Judge… Continue Reading →

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