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Visual Arts: “It’s Alive!” — Undying Terror

October 7, 2017
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A terrifically fun — when not spine-tingling — exhibition of horror and sci-fi memorabilia.

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Film Review: “The Devil’s Candy” — Wouldst Thou Like to Die, Deliciously?

March 24, 2017
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Horror fans in search of a smarter-than-average thriller that will make their viscera quiver should not miss this one.

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Film Review: “At the Devil’s Door” — Satan Never Naps

September 18, 2014
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The highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..

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Film Round-up: Halloween Scarefests on the Silver Screen

October 11, 2011
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In the coming week there will be screenings of a variety of horror films from over the decades — you choose how you want your spine tingled. And don’t forget to dress up

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Movie Review: Beware the Tire From Hell

May 3, 2011
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That Rubber fails to accomplish much of interest is really a shame. Call it a waste of potential: this film is, perhaps in spite of itself, sharply current—an ideal cinematic concept of the Internet age, self-consciousness gone a muck. Rubber. Directed by Quentin Dupieux. At Kendall Square Cinema. By Taylor Adams French director Quentin Dupieux’s…

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Theater Review: An Epic Tale of Pursuer and Pursued — NT Live’s “Frankenstein”

March 25, 2011
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In this compelling stage version of “Frankenstein,” urgency of revenge pushes forward, murder upon murder. Creature and Doctor merge in immorality. Both are playing God in their command of life and death. Sharing roles is the meaning of this theatrical experience. This is their message and their show.

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Book Review: The Greatest Horror Novel of the 20th Century

March 16, 2011
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German author Ernst Weiss’s nightmarish vision of science gone mad in his 1931 novel Georg Letham is not rote Freudian; it is firmly in the social critique/ apocalyptic Darwinian mode.

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