23rd Oct2009

Movie Review: Paranormal Activity

by Billy

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I will start this article by saying the following:

If this is what passes for a “horror” film these days, and if this is what scares people… then we have entered an era of being a bunch of no-taste pussies. I watched this film after hearing how it was quite possibly the scariest film of the year, the decade, or perhaps OF ALL TIME! Granted, movies don’t really scare me… but I still watched this one with the hopes that all the people talking about how they pissed themselves watching this were right. (more…)

16th Oct2009

BOO!: A Look at the Past (and Future) of a Legend Part 1: In The Beginning…

by Billy

Capture3A simple man, a parlor room, a murdered wife, a werewolf butler, and an adventure for the ages…

In the Fall of 2008, all of these things came together as part of one of the most celebrated comic mini-series of our generation. Heralded by some as the “rebirth of the modern day murder mystery,” the comic entitled “BOO!” would cause both the imagination and heart-rate of the young and old to race over its three-issue span. Though the story itself dealt with the mystery of a murder and played out as one of the finest “whodunnits” in literature, the die-hard fans had other questions that would go unanswered for over a year. (more…)

12th Oct2009

Movie Review: The Item

by Jeremy P

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This is a first for me, ladies and gentlemen. Normally, I’m fairly good at judging a movie by its box, and I have managed to avoid a movie that ends up being too awful for words. Alternatively, I have rented many movies (most of which I have reviewed here) solely because the box made it look bad. This movie, however, fits none of these rules. If you saw the box above, what kind of movie would you say you are renting? I’ll tell you what I thought – I thought this would be another “mysterious monster shows up and slowly kills a group of friends until the last friend or two make a last desperate stand and kill the monster” film. Well, I was way off. This movie is nothing like the box makes it look… but not in the way I’d like. (more…)

09th Oct2009

Top Runners For Best Costumes of 09

by Jeremy

CaptureWhile we’ve done our fair share of incredibly bad Halloween costumes in the past. I figure before we get to that this year, maybe we should check out what would actually qualify as a really good Halloween costume. And I’m not talking about that deluxe Master Chief costume or that one Batman costume that’s goddamn everywhere this year. No, we’re talking about costumes that would absolutely steal the show wherever you could show it off. Costumes so ghastly that no child on your block would come close to your house for nigh on twenty years after you walked out of your front door with one of these bad boys on. These… THESE are the cream of the crop… (more…)

05th Oct2009

Plush Horrors For You and Yours

by Jeremy

 

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Halloween gifts are so much better than any normal gifts you could give. What other Holiday allows you to give someone a severed arm and not have them call the police on you? None. Trust me, I’ve tried. This is the only time of the year you can get away with it.

While I’ll get around to some of the bigger, nastier things you can give later this month, I figure we could start out a little simpler with some of these wonderful plush freaks of nature below. Something maybe to give your kids, or maybe even stick it on their pillow in the middle of the night. Imagine the excitement as your child wakes up to find a cute zombie attacking their face. They’ll get the full appreciation of your awesome parenting after the psychiatric sessions and drugs kick in. (more…)