posters of Iconic horror movies

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Okay, there’s one on this list that doesn’t exactly qualify as an iconic horror movie artifact, but it did help create one of the most iconic horror movies ever, Psycho. It was the typewriter used to write the screenplay. (See number 2.) It’s among the horror movie artifacts that areContinue Reading

The Overlook Hotel

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First of all, did you even know there’s a The Shining series called Overlook in development? I didn’t, but that was an exciting discovery to make today. Apparently, it’s one of a few deals that J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot made with WarnerMedia last spring, according to Comicbook. Let’s take aContinue Reading

Niousha Noor stars as Neda in The Night

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Last week I suddenly started seeing a lot of chatter about a horror movie called The Night. It was getting a lot of buzz for a few reasons. For one, it was history-making on several levels. It was the directorial debut for Kourosh Ahari, an Iranian American. However, what makesContinue Reading

Come Play poster

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I’m torn on whether or not to recommend spending $20 on renting Come Play. However, before I delve into the Come Play review and why I’m conflicted, let’s first get acquainted with some of the basics about the movie. Then I’ll share my thoughts on who might find this worthContinue Reading

Ewan McGregor regards a familiar Redrum message

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**Spoiler Alert** This post contains them. Read at your own risk. My husband and I took advantage of Fandango’s Advanced Screening of Doctor Sleep on October 30th. Like The Shining, it’s also based on a book of the same name by Stephen King. I haven’t read the book (yet) soContinue Reading

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Stephen King and Anne Rice rank among the most popular horror writers of modern times. Is it any wonder two of their iconic creations have inspired iconic Halloween balls? The Shining Ball Stephen King’s The Shining was originally published in 1977. It was his third published novel, and his first hardbackContinue Reading

The Overlook Hotel

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Did you watch the Academy Awards this year? If you did, did you see the commercial for the Overlook Hotel? If you didn’t, and you’re a horror movie aficionado,  you may be asking, “As in the Overlook Hotel from The Shining?” Yes! Specifically the one in the original movie, a.k.a. StanleyContinue Reading

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I finally got to watch Room 237 which is about Stanley Kubrick’s interpretation of The Shining. Rodney Ascher’s wry and provocative Room 237 fuses fact and fiction through interviews with cultists and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick’s still-controversial classic The Shining. I still do not know what toContinue Reading

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  Over a year ago, Haunt Jaunts signed up for Crazy Dog TShirts‘s affiliate program. The reason I applied was in part because of the shirt I’m modeling above. The Friday the 13th series is one of my faves. (Well, I really only love one through three, but will watch theContinue Reading

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In a recent email exchange with my friend Dawn Kravagna (who, by the way is a very talented cartoonist, humorist and author all rolled into one –check out her cartoon comic mystery series Cattle Capers to see what I mean), she mentioned how she was going to be making aContinue Reading