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The 10 Best Horror Games to Play Right Now
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The 10 Best Horror Games to Play Right Now
By Alex Borkowski
We Found 2024’s Goriest Ho-ho-horror Movie Kill
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We Found 2024’s Goriest Ho-ho-horror Movie Kill

‘Terrifier 3’ pits humanity in a classic bout with pure evil, slathered in animal fat, sausage casings, and strawberry syrup cut with powdered milk.

By Andy Crump
10 Best Vampire Movies to Watch This Spooky Season
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10 Best Vampire Movies to Watch This Spooky Season

With Robert Eggers’ remake of ‘Nosferatu’ soon to hit theaters, there’s no better time to sample some of the best vampire movies of all time.

By Alex Borkowski
The 5 Best and Wildest Movies at Fantastic Fest 2024
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The 5 Best and Wildest Movies at Fantastic Fest 2024

There is no film festival in North America like Fantastic Fest, because no other has the southern-fried chutzpah necessary to let attendees fly their freak flags for all to see. Here are films everyone’s talking about.

By Andy Crump
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Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter

You may know Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker from their project, Significant Objects, an experiment tying fiction work to thrift store finds. Glenn and Walker now turn their attention to nonfiction in short memoirs. Coupling illustrators and writers, Lost Objects is a look at fifty objects that have a special…

By Brett Braley
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Arena Concrete Architectural Chess Set

Like the marvels of ancient architecture, the game of chess has endured for centuries garnering new fans and players every year. Material Immaterial Studio brings together modern minimalism with the grand structures of the past in a stylish new chess set dubbed: Arena. This concrete chess set is inspired by…

By John A. Paradiso
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The 10 Best Bad Movies On Netflix

You can learn a lot from watching a bad movie. Taking a note from The Princeton Review, watching a bad movie instructs you what not to do if you want to make a good movie. A bad movie can also remind you what it is that you appreciate about the…

By Andy Crump
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20 Martial Arts Movies Every Guy Should See

Few things are as enjoyable and adrenalizing as martial arts films, whatever their make and model. Sometimes, plot is a necessity for stringing together cool fights. Sometimes, it’s as much of a pleasure as the cool fights. There’s nothing wrong with coasting along in anticipation of the next round of…

By Andy Crump
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A Comprehensive History of the Rise and Fall of Playboy Magazine

A lot of the judgments you’ll hear about the cultural value and effects of Playboy will come from modern commentators espousing modern views for a modern audience. In that context, Playboy is easily and frequently dismissed as a rag that panders to the male gaze and contributes to the objectification…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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