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The End of Oak Street Makes Dinosaur Movies Feel New Again

When I saw Jurassic Park in the theater, I had very little idea about what it was about. I only knew that Steven Spielberg had made a movie about dinosaurs, and that was more than enough to get me through… Continue Reading →

August 19, 2026

The 2026 #HauntLife Midyear Awards: The Good, the Bad and the Backrooms

Last year, I introduced the #HauntLife Midyear Movie Missteps Awards, a completely unnecessary ceremony honoring the movies that confused, disappointed or irritated me during the first half of 2025. It was both petty and therapeutic in a way. It was… Continue Reading →

August 9, 2026

Dead Media is a Throwback to Following the Rules of ’90s Horror

Back in the day, renting movies was a weekly exercise in patience. Finding the best entertainment options while beating your neighbors to the local store’s limited inventory (or not) felt like beating your head against the wall at times. For… Continue Reading →

August 2, 2026

Lars Shrike Walks the Night: Lost in More Than Space

For as long as I can remember, I’ve found myself wondering about the stories of complete strangers: The man quietly eating lunch by himself at a diner, the woman hurrying through the grocery store with a cart full of things… Continue Reading →

July 20, 2026

Rose of Nevada Navigates Nautical Nightmares

Cold Open: After a long-and-intentional panning of scenery slowly bleeds into partially spoken sentences as the audience deciphers a boat has mysteriously returned after 30 long years of being declared lost at sea, the story of Rose of Nevada (which… Continue Reading →

July 5, 2026

Stolen Kingdom Sneaks into Disney’s Abandoned Past

Back in the day, when I was a freshman in college, I had already realized how much of a fan of nostalgia I had become. That self-awareness of this Child of the ’80s dragged me to Chuck E. Cheese with… Continue Reading →

June 25, 2026

Blind Cop 2 is the Sequel Nobody Asked for… and That’s the Joke

When I was in high school, I worked at Video Quest, a small video rental store in my hometown. This was back before streaming services put thousands of movies at your fingertips. If you wanted to watch a movie, you… Continue Reading →

June 8, 2026

The Dead Place Comes Alive When David Howard Thornton Arrives

I was never one of the popular kids in high school. I wasn’t necessarily bullied, either. I just ran with a group that most people would have described as socially awkward. We were the band kids, the gamers, the movie… Continue Reading →

June 1, 2026

Pizza Movie: All Crust, No Pepperoni

I have always believed there are two types of high-school experiences. There are the ones you see in movies, where everyone is always cool, effortlessly social and somehow always at the right party. And then there are the rest of… Continue Reading →

April 6, 2026
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