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Shawn’s best and worst of the year

Greetings everyone, despite what you may have heard I am very much still alive and here to give you my best and worst of 2014 list. Let’s start things off with the best. DISCLAIMER, some of these may not have been released in 2014 but are movies that I saw for the first time this […]

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Horror on Steam contest

Greetings all,   Now that I’ve made my (not so) triumphant return to the website, I’m feeling generous. Use our newly installed comment section to tell us what your favorite horror video game is and why. It’s that simple. I’ll pick a winner and that person will receive a copy of a horror game on […]

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Welcome to the new Horror-Writers – Beta

Hello folks,   Welcome to the beta version of the new  horror-writers. Here’s Changelog 1.0 from the previous version. We’re now going forward with the Disqus commenting system. We’ve had a lot of people ask us to turn commenting back on and after researching it, this seems like the best way to weed out spam […]

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Bell Let’s Talk

Today is Bell Let’s Talk here in Canada. For every text message sent from a Bell phone or tweet using the tag #BellLetsTalk they will donate money to mental health initiatives. I’ve already tweeted using the tag a few times but my phone is with a different company so I can’t help them out that […]

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Dario Argento: Nature’s Greatest Monster

My views on the last few films by Mr.Argento are well known. Dracula 3D gave me a mental breakdown that I almost never recovered from. Mother Of Tears or whatever the hell it’s called was no better. There was a time when I actually enjoyed Argento’s movies. I used to stay up late re-watching Suspiria, […]

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The best villain of all time is clearly Kefka

                    Yep. That guy. He is the very definition of a psychopath. There is no tragic back story, there are absolutely no attempts to redeem the character, he starts off as comically evil and gets much darker from there. For those who don’t know, and great […]

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Shutter vs Shutter

I tend to approach the subject of remakes differently. Instead of instantly dismissing a film, I wonder what exactly will be different about the American version to warrant a new version. There have been times when I’ve preferred the remade version of a film to the original. A good example of this is with the […]

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Shawn’s Best/Worst of 2013

Shawn’s 10 Best Movies of 2013       10.  The Conjuring — Useless doll subplot aside, this movie had tension to spare 9.  Insidious Chapter 2 – Only slightly better than the original Insidious. 8. World War Z – I watched this with Ms.Horror-Writers and we enjoyed it. Go in expecting it to be […]

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Interview with Jack And Laura of What’s Next

  Recently, I was able to interview Jack and Laura, two young Paranormal Investigators from the U.K. They’re both very kind and you can follow them on twitter here     You’re both pretty young,  what made you decide that this is something you’d like to do? We started the series when we were in […]

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Shawn’s 24 Hours of Halloween

If I had the ability to stay up for 24 hours and could start a movie at 12:00am on October 31st and continue right until 11:59 on November 1st, these are the movies I would watch. I’m going to assume that the running length will be around 2 hours each so I’ll pick 12 movies. […]