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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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The United States of Cocktails

Looking to up your cocktail game? Want to learn about the history of mixed drinks in the United States? Well, publisher Graphic Image has you covered with their leather-bound coffee table book The United States of Cocktails. This nearly 300-page tome features regional cocktails from coast to coast with beautiful…

By John A. Paradiso
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The 8 Best Movies You May Have Missed This Year

We're fast approaching the end of the year. And that means studios are flooding theaters (and, if they bother, streaming services) with movies that they want to convince you are must-sees. Some of them probably are. If you’re any kind of moviegoer, you’ll probably check them out. But as studios…

By Andy Crump
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The Best Film Noir for Noirvember

November is a time for turkey and growing facial hair. It’s a time for gratitude. It’s a time for sitting in the shadows with a handful of film noirs. You know those shadowy, cynical, effortlessly cool crime thrillers that proliferated throughout the 1940s and were fundamental to the movies’ development…

By Andy Crump
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2021 Holiday Gift Guides

2021 is flying by and the holiday season is right around the corner. Between the upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals and the strains placed on the supply chain, now's the perfect time to get your holiday shopping done. Need a bit of help? That's where we come in. Maybe you're…

By John A. Paradiso
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Bradley Cooper Displeases The Right People In “Nightmare Alley” Trailer

"Lots of remakes aren't good," you say? Well, lots of movies aren't good. So there. But Nightmare Alley is a good movie. And Guillermo del Toro only makes good movies. So that's two reasons for optimism about Searchlight's forthcoming remake of Edmund Goulding's ol' noir masterpiece. The other reasons - like…

By Andy Crump
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