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“Listening is Where the Love Begins”: The Power of Kindness in ‘Werewolves Within’

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Werewolves Within begins in darkness, as the sounds of howling wind and menacing strings accompany a black screen. Slowly, white text fades into view, each line shivering alone for a moment before the next forms. “Listening is where the love begins,” declares the first line, followed by the second, “Listening to ourselves.” The third line appears …

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Ranking Val Lewton’s Shadowy and Sophisticated Horror Films

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Most readers of Bloody Disgusting already know about Val Lewton, the producer whose low-budget films for RKO practically invented the cinematic language of atmospheric horror. Working with directors Jacques Tournier, Mark Robson, and Robert Wise, Lewton created movies that used shadows and suggestions to tell tense stories of psychological despair and sexual repression.  An earlier article by Meagan …

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Spiral and the Politics That Have Always Been Present in the Saw Franchise

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Like most reviewing Saw when it was released in October 2004, critic David Edelstein found the film so disturbing that he questioned the morality of screenwriter Leigh Whannell and director James Wan. But unlike most, Edelstein, who would later coin the term “torture porn,” still found value in the film, praising it as “an ingenious machine for inducing terror, rage, and …

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Six Comic Book Death Traps That Would Be Right at Home in the Saw Franchise (Bloody Disgusting)

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I’m not one to often pull the “book was better” card, but I have to admit that I get a little bit snobby when people express their love of John Kramer, the Jigsaw killer of the Saw franchise. Look, I can respect a man who straps heartless bankers to a merry-go-round and force them to beg for …

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Meet Agatha Harkness, the Scheming Witch of WandaVision

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Although each episode takes on the tone and setting of a different classic sitcom, one thing has remained constant throughout the Disney+ series WandaVision: Kathryn Hahn’s show-stealing performance as Agnes, the nosey neighbor. In every new incarnation of domestic farce experienced by the Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and her husband Vision (Paul Bettany), Agnes …

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Bloody Disgusting: How Amityville 1992 Perfected the Franchise

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Currently, there are eight Nightmare on Elm Street films, eleven Friday the 13th movies, and one movie shared between the two series. Thanks to recent reboots, the Child’s Playfranchise is now seven movies long and The Puppet Master franchise is 14 entries long. Halloween’s up to 13 movies, The Conjuring universe has seven films, and Saw will be up to nine whenever Spiral: From the Book of Saw finally …

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Bloody Disgusting: “Four-Color Fridays: A History of Friday the 13th Comics”

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As we celebrate 40 years of Friday the 13th, it’s hard to not feel a little sorry for Jason Voorhees, perhaps the most mistreated horror icon. Ignored by his founders at Paramount Studios and mishandled by his new owners at New Line Cinema, Jason has had a bumpy on-screen career. Even worse, where his peers Freddy …

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Bloody Disgusting: “The Horror Highlights of Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey”

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My full review of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emanicipation of One Harley Quinn) will be coming soon. But in the meantime, check out this piece that I wrote for Bloody Disgusting.Each of the characters in the movie has found themselves in some pretty horrific situations. I got to trot out my nerd knowledge …

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Bloody Disgusting: Meet the Monsters: Ranking the Monster Movies of Unlikely Horror Icons Abbott and Costello

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Although my parents rarely let me watch scary movies as a kid, they did have one exception: Universal Classics. And there was no Universal Classic that I watched more than Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. A full on Monster Mash celebration, with genuinely great scares and funny jokes, Meet Frankenstein is a horror comedy dream.But …

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