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'Chernobyl Diaries' starts strong then loses power

  • Chernobyl Diaries review
  • May 26, 2012
The premise for “Chernobyl Diaries” had tons of promise: Mutants running loose in the ruins of Chernobyl, what’s not to love? It...
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Poe was nevermore needed than he is in ‘The Raven’

Your Chicago Horror Movie Examiner has been anxiously awaiting the Edgar Allan Poe thriller “The Raven” for almost a year. I’ve...
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‘The Cabin in the Woods’ delivers blood & guts, but mostly brains

It’s not every day that a scary movie comes along that manages to indict the overwrought tendencies of the horror genre, as well as poke fun...
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Time for a quickie: The Cabin in the Woods

  • Cabin in the Woods film
  • April 12, 2012
I am a true believer in the Whedon; Any project that has any sort of tie to the brilliance ofJossautomatically gets my squee stamp, andThe Cabin in...
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'Fear' by Michael Grant is the darkest of the Gone series yet!

'Fear' by Michael Grant is the second-to-last book in the 'Gone' series and it is, by far, the darkest (literally) and perhaps...
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‘Silent House’ at home with egregious horror clichés

Truly one of the worst horror movies to come down the pike in some time, “Silent House” is so asinine in its storytelling and execution...
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Deno Sandz Discusses 'Blood Plantation' with Judyth Piazza on The American Persp

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10 silent horror movies that speak volumes

If seeing “The Artist” has whetted your appetite for cinema from the silent era, you should know that some of the greatest horror...
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'The Woman in Black' is a welcome return to good, old-fashioned horror

A scary thing happened on the way to the cinema this past weekend. Not one, but two entries in the genre cleaned up at the box office. “The...
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Dark Eden by Patrick Carman

Dark Eden by Patrick Carman is a book about a child's deepest phobia. After years of therapy, Will's therapist suggests a kind of camp for...
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