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Healthy Fears Podcast – Episode 21: You Are Never Seen Again

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26 Apr 202226 Apr 2022

Sometimes, people disappear. There is something uniquely terrifying and captivating about the prospect of vanishing, or having someone you care about vanish. Even when there is a likely answer, the lack of absolute certainty regarding the fate of the missing can produce […]

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Healthy Fears Episode 18 – Depths of Hatred

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20 Apr 202220 Apr 2022

Hatred is not strictly an unproductive, seemingly unnatural emotion. Sometimes hate is understandable, and even a motivation, if directed against an injustice or imbalance. Unfortunately, we too often see it deployed in service of maintaining injustices or imbalances, by powerful people who […]

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Healthy Fears Episode 17 – The Electric Chair and Three Shocking Years

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20 Apr 202220 Apr 2022

The electric chair was once the go-to method of execution in the United States, and “the chair” still holds a unique position in America’s history of capital punishment. In aftermath of more than a decade of debates about how “cruel and unusual” […]

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Healthy Fears Episode 16 – It’s a Mad, Maddening World

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22 Mar 202222 Mar 2022

Placing someone in a world that doesn’t make sense to them–that operates on its own, unpredictable form of “logic”–creates ideal conditions for comedy (Looney Tunes), absurdist fantasy (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)… or horror. Which can range from tales as impossible as Octavia […]

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My Favorites of 2021

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10 Dec 202110 Dec 2021

Favorite Film Kicking things off with a decidedly non-horror favorite before we dive deep into world of frights. I have missed going to the movies. I love being in the theater. The pandemic has seemingly made many people realize that they in […]

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Movie Review: DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS

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15 Apr 201805 Jul 2020

Final Verdict: Mayyyyybe worth a watch if you’re curious about a fairly corny, occasionally inspired cult erotic sorta-horror flick. When you combine being sick in bed on a Sunday with Shudder’s unique streaming alternatives, you can easily find yourself watching something you ordinarily […]

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One of the Keys to Keeping “Unlikable” Characters Tolerable

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23 Jun 201720 Jul 2017

The recent box-office disappointment Rough Night drew obvious comparisons to the movie Very Bad Things given the shared premise of “accidental killing of stripper/sex worker leads to cover-up and further criminal behavior.” In speaking of Very Bad Things, several of the film’s detractors have pointed to […]

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Perfect Rivals: Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo – TOMBSTONE

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22 Jun 201710 Jul 2020

Some rivalries are built and strengthened by the opponents being perfect opposites, but others are memorable because the enemies reflect each other a little too closely for comfort. Doc Holliday spells it out for us during the famous first encounter he has […]

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DON’T KNOCK TWICE Trailer Checks Off a Few of My Boxes

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02 Jan 201714 May 2020

Spindly-limbed creature? Check. Title that doubles as a warning? Check. Black-and-white ink illustrations that look like they could be pulled from a fake grimoire? Pretty damn specific, and yet, that’s a check. This isn’t a particularly great trailer. Pretty by the numbers, in […]

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44-minutes of Horror Stories From the Freddy Krueger Hotline

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27 Jul 201609 Oct 2020

For a relatively brief period in the 80’s and early 90’s, back before every entertainment enterprise had a dedicated website, 1-900 numbers were ubiquitous. While some people might remember the 1-900 numbers being associated with phone sex operations, R&B singers, pop stars, teen idols and […]

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