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Who doesn't love a good horror story? Authors like Stephen King have made a very nice living by scaring readers and moviegoers out of their wits. Horror, in fact, has one of the most avidly devoted fanbases you'll find anywhere on the blogosphere.

Horror also covers a surprisingly wide spectrum of styles, ranging from creepy, psychological thrillers to all-out splatterfests where little, if anything, is left to the imagination in the way of guts and gore.

In the seventies, the horror bar was significantly raised with the release of The Exorcist, a film which covered demonic possession so graphically that many parents forbade their children to see the film. By the late seventies and early eighties, horror had spawned a new sub-genre of "slasher" films like the Halloween and Friday The 13th series, which featured maniacal killers picking off young sex-crazed teenagers one by one.

The Nightmare On Elm Street series took this to a borderline comical level with the introduction of Freddie Krueger and his knife-wielding gloved fingertips. More recently, films like Saw and Hostel have upped the gore factor to such a degree some critics have labeled them as "torture-porn."

On the blogosphere, you'll find horror fans at sites like the Horror Blog and Horrors Not Dead.

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  • American Horror Story - Season 3 - Casting News - Angela Bassett and Patti LuPone join cast


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    Two legends are joining the cast of American Horror Story: Coven -- Oscar nominee Angela Bassett and Tony winner Patti LuPone! — Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) May 12, 2013
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  • DVD Review: Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever


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    Director: Calum Waddell Starring: Mark Atkins, Emily Booth, John Carl Buechler, Corey Feldman, Tobe Hooper, Adam Green, Mick Garris Producers: Naomi Holwill, Calum Waddell Country: UK Running Time: 75 min Year: 2012 BBFC Certificate: 18 Documentary: **½~~ (2.5/5) DVD Set: ****~ (4/5) T here ...
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  • Texas Frightmare Weekend: Maniac (2012) Review


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    I’ve been gestating on Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac since last week when I saw the film with a packed crowd at Texas Frightmare Weekend on Saturday evening. Prior to the screening, I rewatched the 1980 William Lustig/Joe Spinnell original and now that I’ve had some time to stew, I don’t know if that was the ...
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  • The Ninth Gate (1999) [REVIEW]


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      Holy shit, this movie came out in 1999?! It feels like it’s a lot older than that.  I remember seeing The Ninth Gate in theaters and thinking it was long as shit. It’s really only just a bit over two hours, but having no idea who Roman Polanski was or anything about his style of filmmaking, it felt like ...
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  • Texas Frightmare Weekend: Byzantium (2012) Review


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    In the post-age of the Twilight films, it is tricky business to venture into vampire mythology without running the risk of having tomatoes thrown in your direction. Gone are the days of Cronos and Near Dark and Nosferatu and lately we’ve instead been bombarded with the slug of vapid, shallow Twilight films strewn ...
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  • Kill Zombies


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  • Watch Horror Short: Death Scenes


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    Yesterday I shared with you all a short film called DONT MOVE and it can be summed up with ‘wow’. Today I am back with another horror short that quite frankly makes me disgusted. The horror short film is titled Death Scenes and is about a detective who brings in a serial killer for an interrogation [...]
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  • Cleaveland kidnapping details of The House Of Horrors


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    . __ 5 GREEN links below . Cleveland kidnapping :  Amanda Berry returns home  | Mail Online . . Kidnapping victim Michele  Knight has ‘hearing damage   and facial injuries from ...
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  • The Amityville Horror Trilogy Haunts Blu-ray This Year


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    Scream Factory has announced that they plan to bring The Amityville Horror Trilogy  to Blu-ray this year. The Amityville Horror Trilogy consists of the first three films in the series, The Amityville Horror , Amityville II: The Possession , and Amityville 3D . More details about these upcoming releases ...
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  • While the Others Sleep by Tom Becker - review


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    Numerous characters make the book more diverse, because it illustrates many different human types and the relationships between them While the Others Sleep is an interesting horror story which is worth reading if youre a fan of this genre. The book is about a boy, Alfie, who suffers from insomnia and is believed to ...
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  • Sunday Roundup: Weird Fiction, Apex Magazine Issue 48, The Mary Sue, and Plow the Bones


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    We had another busy week here at Apex. The Apex bloggers brought us fantastic posts on Weird Fiction, exploring everything from where to come up with you own weird ideas to whether or not fiction can be weird in a society saturated with it. Apex Magazine Issue 48 was released and we announced our partnership with ...
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  • Greystone Park- Film Review


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    Greystone Park Mind the Gap Productions Directed by Sean Stone Reviewed by Anthony C. Francis Oliver Stone is, in my opinion, one of the top ten finest filmmakers working movies. Although he has been in a slump with his recent films, he has given us some of the finest and most important cinema in the ...
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  • Justify, part 3


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  • Luciferian kink, part 1


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  • THE SEMI-DAILY HORROR MOVIE QUOTE(S) OF THE DAY-MAY 12, 2013


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  • #9: The Crimson Horror


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  • Eyes Like Blue Fire


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    by Amanda Lyons Eyes Like Blue Fire is the story of Katja a vampire who has lost sense of herself and her value in the world. Lost, broken and damaged she wanders the streets of Europe hoping to find some sense of purpose beyond the death and tragedy she has always known. Betrayed by her sire and left alone in the ...
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  • Black and White Sunday - The Horror Matinee!


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    As a teenager,  I used to watch the old black and white horror movies starring such greats as Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price. And, of course, they were always on a Sunday afternoon. So, with the silly way my brain works, the Black and White Sunday blog hop inspired the following.....Try not to be ...
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  • I’m Not Scared Anymore


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    I love being scared. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions and one of the strongest. If something scares you, you remember it. As a result of this, I watch a lot of scary films and read a lot of scary books (I do play some scary games, but I won’t focus on them this time). And one thing that I’ve started ...
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  • SlenderMan LIVE no ads apk download


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