A book review of Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s 2013 modern folk horror novel Hex Usually when you think about folk horror stories they are set in some 1600’s pastoral wilderness in the isolated hills of Europe somewhere. Rarely would you think of sentences like “bring up the app and mark the witch’s position” being part of […]
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Kecksburg, Pennsylvania This festival typically occurs every July at the Kecksburg VFW grounds. The festival is a way to observe the famous incident that occurred in Kecksburg when an acorn shaped UFO crashed in the woods in December 1965. It also raises money for the VFW so they can continue to serve their community. There
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia Every third weekend in September, the small town of Pt. Pleasant, WV holds a festival in honor of the cryptid that plagued their town between 1966 – 1967. Your boys Jeff and Eli ventured down there to do some investigative reporting and were happy to discover this is the place to
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A Collaborative Blog Article Between Man and Machine I’ve been reading Neuromancer over the past few months as a reaction to the velocity of evolution that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undergone over the past few years. I’d been meaning to read this novel for decades and finally decided to dive in. However, then I had
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Regional Cinema can be considered a dirty term in the film industry, often equated with cheap, low brow, and/or exploitation movies; it became a mainstay of the Hollywood outsider. These films are often shot on location, involve a cast and sometimes crew composed of locals, and typically stray from the standard Hollywood formula. Join me
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This book has been orbiting around my book lists for a few years now and I’d never really pulled it down and gotten into this “classic” within folk horror literature. I’m not really sure why, but I think part of it may be how many times it was pushed on me as a “must read”
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It’s taken me a minute to get around to actually writing this book review. I made the mistake(?) of reading The Ruins during the gap between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and it left me a little raw, lol. Not a great season for something this real and this bleak. Don’t get me wrong, though, this book
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I’d been looking forward to seeing this movie since I first learned about it a couple of years ago. Like many films, it hit a hard pause at the beginning of the pandemic. So, you can imagine my excitement when it finally dropped! I called up my usual suspects of like-minded creature feature fans and we hit the theater. Then this movie happened to us. Here’s the short explanation of the overall emotional response I (and many of my group) had through watching this movie;
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I read this originally a few years ago and then saw the movie, which I really loved. So, I wanted to go back and check my original opinion on the book (which was not favorable) to see if it grew on me at all. The short answer is…not really. I liked some of the aspects of the book in both readings but there are just some things that made it difficult for me to really get pulled into the story. I understand that there are a lot of people that really love this book, and the extended Southern Reach trilogy. I’m just giving my perspective to those that might be interested.
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