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How Pet Sematary Changed My Life

In 1989 I was eleven years old and I was not fond of horror movies. I had seen horror movies but they scared me and I didn’t understand why a person would choose to do something that scared them. I didn’t enjoy the sensation of fear and there were things …

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Breakfast of Champions

Listen: I’m almost finished rereading (for the third or forth time, I’m not entirely sure) the Kurt Vonnegut novel Breakfast of Champions. It was the first Vonnegut book that I read and it was the one that opened an entire new literary world to me. There was a brief time …

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The Crazies

In 1968, filmmaker George A. Romero (along with co-screenwriter John Russo) created the modern idea of zombies in our culture with their film Night of the Living Dead. Arguably the single most important film in the history of zombie cinema, Night of the Living Dead (or NOTLD) both invented the …

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The Road

“The road is fuckin’ hard It’s also really fuckin’ tough Ain’t no question that The road don’t take no guff It’s the fuckin’ road my friend, but it’s the only fuckin’ road I know” – Tenacious D “The Road” A year or so back I was down in Washington for …

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Frankenstein

So I thought I had a pretty good handle on the whole Frankenstein book vs movie thing. I know I read the book when I was a kid, and I’ve seen more than a few different Frankenstein movies over the years. I remembered reading the book when I was in …

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Let Me In

- warning – I’m going to talk about key story elements from the novel Let the Right One In as well as the Swedish film of the same name and this newer film. If you haven’t seen or read this story, then please, stop reading this… and go watch Let …

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David Warner

So I’ve been wanting to read some Shirley Jackson for quite a while now, but for some reason I’ve had a hard time finding any of her stuff. It seems like it would be fairly easy, but I’m just not finding it. I had this problem with Richard Matheson until …

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Into the Wild

What bothers me the most is the same thing that bothers me about Fight Club, which is that people completely miss the point and only take the first half of the message. The point of Into the Wild was that he was wrong. They come right out and plainly say it …

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The Green Ribbon

When I was a kid I used to spend a lot of time at the base library where my mom worked. This was at the now derelict George Air Force Base outside of Apple Valley, California. Many days I would to to the library after school and wait for my …