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BJ Slime Presents: Heebie Jeebies - Beware, The County Fair

BJ Slime Presents: Heebie Jeebies - Beware, The County Fair

I hadn’t been to the fair since I was a little girl -- six, maybe seven years old. Back when I still thought crap like that was cool. So it figured that was exactly how I...

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Candyman Vs. The Forbidden

As fun as mindless bodycount-building slasher flicks are (lord knows I enjoy them), for my money, the best slasher movies are the ones that offer just a little bit more. Hitting theaters in the early 90’s, when slasher movies were rapidly becoming passé, Clive Barker’s Candyman managed to take a sub genre with rather limited potential and wrap an engaging ghost story around it, not only making Candyman one of th...

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Hellraiser Vs. The Hellbound Heart

Everyone has their own list of “essential” horror movies; films so groundbreaking and recognizable to the genre that you simply can’t call yourself a true horror fan without having seen them. Personally, I try never to encourage the “no true Scotsman” fallacy, as claiming someone isn’t a “true fan” unless they meet your own personal criteria seems rather pompous and obnoxious. And yet, someone profess...

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10 Tips for Time Travelers: Time's Last Gift Review

Time travel is a funny thing. Depending on the unique rules of the time travel no two time travel stories are the same. Recently re-released time travel novel Time’s Last Gift is much the same as it introduces rules I’ve never seen. What better way to add validity to your story if you can come up with some clever sciencey space time rules. In Time’s Last Gift for instance, the science shows time travele...

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Review: To Be or Wanna Be: The Top Ten Differences Between a Successful Actor and a Starving Artist

To be... or wanna be? That is the question in audiobook narrator and acting instructor Sean Pratt's new book. I’ve read my share of tomes on acting, directing and cinematography that deliver advice in a methodical and cold manner; sure, they're helpful, but can I really believe the guy on the dust cover? The first thing you’ll notice when cracking open To Be or Wanna Be: The Top Ten Differences Between...

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Interview of Thorns: Fantasy Author Mark Lawrence Speaks

They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse." Mark Lawrence is the writer of last year's hit Prince of Thorns which was also his debut novel. That story is part one in a epic fantasy trilogy about a privileged royal child named Jorg who, after a tragic life changing event, ha...

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