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Animazement: Community Matters
Every Memorial Day weekend for longer than H3 and I can remember, we’ve attended Animazement, Covid excluded. Animazement is a 3-day anime and Japanese culture convention in Raleigh that puts a focus on the animators, as well as the history and traditions, to better help audiences understand the media they are consuming. This is in…
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Fear Street Prom Queen: Why Bother?
Fear Street: Prom Queen is not a good movie. I hate writing reviews like this for most movies. However, when a high-profile studio delivers such a charmless, low-effort production, the best I can do is warn people. Also, it’s a criminal waste of the usually amazing Lilli Taylor. For that, it deserves all the hate…
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Death Parade: Retro Review
For an anime that examines the brutal reality of the afterlife, Death Parade has the catchiest opening. So much so that it’s been stuck in my head since the anime originally aired in 2015, as have the questions and themes the series raises about humanity, judgement, and empathy. The first episode focuses on the setting,…
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Final Destination Bloodlines: Giving the Fans What They Wanted
Final Destination: Bloodlines: a lot of people died, I loved it, go see it. The End. My editor has informed me that this is insufficient for a review. Before I go any further into why I particularly enjoyed this installment and some of the issues I had, there will be spoilers. It’s kind of unavoidable…
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The Ugly Stepsister: What Are We Trying to Say?
The Ugly Stepsister has a lot of hype right now. It’s an interesting take on Cinderella told from the perspective of an “ugly” stepsister. The elements of body and psychological horror are used to emphasize the themes of body image, societal standards, and fantasy vs realty. But in the end, I was left feeling conflicted. …
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Final Destination 1-5: Why We Like Watching People Die
I am beyond hyped for Final Destination: Bloodlines. To refresh my memory on the series, it seemed like a good time for a rewatch of the first five. While there are definitely high and low points in the franchise, I was left with a much bigger question: Why do I like these so much? Despite…
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They Call Her Death: Genre Mash-Up Madness
They Call Her Death is a unique experience. It takes considerable courage to make a spaghetti western in 2025 that looks and feels like it’s straight out of the early ‘60s. From the grainy film stock to the warbling soundtrack, this is a modem version of the old low-budget classics. How you feel about it will largely…
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Prom Night 1980: A Mixed Bag of Other Movies
Prom Night is one of the “childhood pranks and/or bullying results in a lot of murders” kind of slashers. It’s also Jamie Lee Curtis’ third horror movie, between The Fog and Terror Train. Her involvement in the film secured the funding needed and helped propel the slasher to cult classic. Prom Night got a couple of sequels in 1987 and 1990,…
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Horror is For Everyone: Gatekeeping Sucks
A Bit of Backstory In a former life before horror, I worked in the comic industry. I had a few different jobs during my time there: sales and marketing, writer, and a super brief stint as an inking assistant. The last one was fun, but not my strongest suit. I will always love comics, but my…
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Blood Fest: This Was Better the First Time
Blood Fest is one of my favorite concepts: horror fans are caught in a deadly live action haunt where the actors are trying to kill the attendees. The set-up for this horror comedy does so much right. I even enjoyed it the first time I watched it. So how does a movie with so much…