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Enough Room for a Select Few: Why Reducing Marketing Costs is No Small Task

A couple of articles ago, I described a “process of …

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In Praise of Older Women in Horror

Occasionally older, strong-willed women creep into the sex-saturated narrative of …

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Ten Songs Forever Changed By Movies

People have a pretty intimate relationship with music. The song …

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James Wan set to direct ‘The Conjuring 2’ for 2016 release

If anyone in Hollywood says that they are retiring or …

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It’s Hard Out Here for an Original Franchise: ‘Pacific Rim’’s Plight

Not two weeks ago, famed auteur and Pacific Rim director …

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‘Poltergeist’ remake in the works

They’re back!!! Sam Raimi and Gil Kenan are remaking the …

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31 Days of Horror: Jump Scares, Twists & A Genre in Decline

There’s a wonderfully maddening moment early on in Stanley Kubrick’s …

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‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ is a dreadful, tension-free mess and an unnecessary continuation

Insidious: Chapter 2 joins the less than stellar ranks of films like The Descent: Part 2 in being an immediate continuation of a horror film that, though ending with a looming threat, did not call for a sequel. After a prologue set in 1986, the film kicks off on the night its predecessor ended, with Rose Byrne’s Renai Lambert questioned by police over the supernatural events that led to the murder by strangulation of psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye).