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Hey, do you like scary movies? How about documentary TV shows about the making of scary movies? How about a…
Oct 24 2018
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James Karen, the actor who brought about The Return Of The Living Dead and indirectly blew up The Little House On…
Apr 6 2018
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It was a long time ago, in a universe not so unlike our own, that two men entered the pop-culture firmament with…
Aug 27 2017
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Tobe Hooper, a director who radically reshaped the landscape of American horror in 1974, when he took a shoestring…
Jul 18 2017
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The Poltergeist franchise is famously cursed, supposedly due to the real human skeletons that were used as props in…
Oct 28 2016
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Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…
Sep 21 2016
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HBO has a pretty big October ahead of it: The premium network is debuting a number of new shows next month,…
Aug 25 2016
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Jump scares are an effective way to startle the audience, but are they useful in establishing a more terrifying…
Jul 25 2016
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A harried Winona Ryder, ax gripped firmly in hand, is an unlikely visual representation of maternal love. And, yet,…
Mar 22 2016
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Starting in the 1960s, RCA spent many years and a reported $600 million trying to develop a physical media format it…
Feb 19 2016
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Johnny Depp has been disguising his matinee idol handsomeness beneath wigs and makeup for decades now, stretching…
Oct 22 2015
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It’s a staple of the horror genre: the doomed house built on an ancient Indian burial ground and now haunted by…
Oct 8 2015
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A new documentary on the “Poltergeist curse” is coming from filmmaker Adam Ripp. According to The Hollywood Reporter,…
Sep 4 2015
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Earlier this week, The A.V. Club reported on Wes Craven’s original draft for A Nightmare On Elm Street 3:…
Aug 5 2015
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In an innocuous bit of entertainment news that would probably be a lot more startling if it leapt, screaming at you,…
Jul 7 2015
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1982 was a different time. The Weather Channel was new on the air, Cal Ripkin Jr. had just begun his 2,632-game…
May 22 2015
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The 2015 edition of Poltergeist would be a decent horror movie if it didn’t already exist. There’s the 1982 edition,…
May 13 2015
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The horror remake train pulls into Poltergeist station this summer with a modern-day update of the 1982 classic.…
Apr 29 2015
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The summer of 2015 is brimming with big stars who want to be your superhero, teaming for epic adventures,…