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‘CAM’ is the feminist nightmare fuel your next girls’ night requires

sudshr47 November 16, 2018

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This is a spoiler-free review of Netflix’s CAM. 

Time to crack open the sparkling wine, pull on some comfy sweats, and fear for your safety in a male-dominated world. It’s ladies night—and we need to talk about Netflix’s CAM. 

Set in the cyber space of virtual sex work, CAM chronicles the nightmarish ordeal of Alice, an internet model or “cam girl,” who one day logs on to discover she has been replaced by a mysterious doppelgänger. As her many fans obsess over the menacing substitute, Alice fights to regain control of her image, freedom, and physical safety. 

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‘Overlord’ is the revolting, breakneck Nazi zombie movie you just gotta see

sudshr47 November 9, 2018

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This is a spoiler-free review of Overlord.

Assuming The Grinch doesn’t go very differently than I thought, Overlord is the only movie in theaters this weekend that will have you crying over the death of a character and then rooting for that character to die a second time in 60 seconds flat.

The J.J. Abrams produced WWII horror/action flick, originally rumored to be an addition to the Cloverfield series, doesn’t exactly bring a new concept to the table. Nazi zombies (or zombie Nazis, depending on your regional dialect) have been around for a while.

Overlord takes that tried-and-true concept and turns it up to eleven—raising the undead Third Reich to once again terrorize victims, but this time with a unique flair all its own.  Read more…

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Why 2018’s ‘Halloween’ is the slasher movie made for the #MeToo era

sudshr47 October 26, 2018

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This article contains spoilers for the original Halloween and its 2018 sequel.

The trope of the final girl — you know, the last one standing in horror movies, who either simply survives or also kills the villain that murdered all her friends — didn’t just define the slasher formula for decades. 

The archetype was more than a staple of the great classics, from Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The final girl trope was also the key to understanding the entire genre’s psychology, and how horror movies capture our social anxieties about sex and gender.

Now, with 2018’s Halloween and the return of the prototypical final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode has ushered in a new kind of slasher flick for the #MeToo era. Read more…

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The terrifyingly relatable horror of the family trauma in ‘Hill House’

sudshr47 October 16, 2018

This post contains spoilers for Season 1 of The Haunting of Hill House.
We all lived in haunted houses. Or, at the very least, every one of us knows the intimate horrors of family, whether through their haunting absence or the full-bodied specters th…

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The real terror of ‘Hill House’ lies in family trauma

sudshr47 October 12, 2018

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Netflix really hedged its bets with this year’s Halloween fare, with plans to drop everything from Daredevil Season 3 to Sabrina in a matter of weeks – including a modern interpretation of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel The Haunting of Hill House.

At once veering away any prior adaptation of Jackson’s novel and paying tribute to staples of the horror genre, Hill House is an addictive slow burn of a binge that will have you biting your blanket in fear and tiptoeing in the dark. Yet even with all the ghostly frills of a horror classic, what stands out about Hill House is the haunting family drama at its center, and the questions of how the characters can escape the literal and figurative ghosts in their past.  Read more…

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Entertainment Halloween Horror Movies Scary

Here’s the scary movies you should watch this month

sudshr47 October 1, 2018

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Halloween is my happy place. Sure, Thanksgiving is tasty. Christmas is cheery. My birthday is nice. But Halloween is my everything.

Growing up, my sister and I would cling to ABC Family’s 31 Nights of Halloween, blankets and candy corn in hand. We would consume hour after hour of “family friendly” scares in anticipation of All Hallows’ EveBeetlejuice, Hocus Pocus, Clue—ABC Family had it all. 

As we grew up, these sacred thirty-one nights were downgraded to a measly thirteen. Then ABC Family became Freeform and, eventually, I stopped getting cable. Things were never the same. 

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The best gifts for your horror movie loving friend

sudshr47 September 30, 2018

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Everyone has a friend who knows not to run upstairs when they should be running out the front door.

I’m talking the horror movie fan in your life, who’s so similar to Randy Meeks from Scream or Marty Mikalski from Cabin in the Woods they’ll never, ever investigate a basement or deep, dark forest with you. 

This is the friend who knows “the rules” — they will tell you not to pick up the phone, not to have sex (“sex equals death”), never drink or do drugs, and never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, say “I’ll be right back.” 

You won’t be back.

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