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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 Negroni: A Love Affair with a Classic Cocktail’

While we love a Manhattan, Old-Fashioned, Margarita, Painkiller, Boulevardier or Martini, it's hard to deny the simplicity, ubiquity and sheer beloved nature of the Negroni. As the story goes, "a century ago, the cocktail achieved perfection when, according to legend, Count Camillo Negroni asked his bartender in Florence to stiffen…

By Ben Dahl
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Yahtzee Cup Noodles Special Edition

If your college experience was anything like ours, your dining hall meal plan was frequently supplemented by the iconic Cup Noodles ramen experience. Not quite proper ramen, not quite soup but cheap as hell and easy to make in a pinch, it's a staple food we still occasionally go back…

By Ben Dahl
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LAVA ME 2 Carbon Fiber Guitar

After seeing what the team at Lava did with the Lava Me Pro Guitar, we knew to expect big things from the company in the future. We still weren't quite prepared for the revolutionary new LAVA ME 2. It's built around the same stylish, injection-molded carbon fiber construction and hybrid…

By Ben Dahl
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Essential Vinyl: 30 Albums Every Record Collector Must Own

Although streaming reigns supreme in the music world, the physical medium has returned with a vengeance. Vinyl record sales have been at an all-time high since the advent of the streaming age. And everyone from your younger cousin to your cool neighbor probably has, at the very least, a modest…

By John A. Paradiso
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Lego Is Celebrating Pride Month and Diversity With the ‘Everyone Is Awesome’ Set

When it comes to catchy jingles, there are few modern examples that are more ear-worm-y than Tegan and Sara's "Everything is Awesome" featuring The Lonely Island from the original LEGO Movie. Everyone's favorite brick builder is taking their commitment to diversity one step further with the release of the Pride…

By Ben Dahl
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