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Netflix’s Fear Street Trailer Promises a Gruesome Summer Movie Experience
For people who grew up loving R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books, the author’s Fear Street series was an excellent way of transitioning to darker, more terrifying stories about teenagers dealing with rather Goosebumps-like, but markedly more dangerous situations in the fictional town of Shadyside.
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Fans of Andy Weir’s The Martian Will Love Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary, the third book by Andy Weir, finds the author going back to what made him famous in the first place. Weir rose to fame with The Martian, a book (and eventually a movie) about a man stranded on Mars who uses complicated, compelling science to get himself home. While Weir’s second book,…
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The Hunger Remake Rises From Its Sexy Vampire Grave
The 1983 vampire movie The Hunger didn’t exactly win over critics when it was first released, but since then it’s become a cult film for its stylish looks, its bisexual lead character, and its influence on goth culture. These are presumably three of the reasons Warner Bros. has decided to reboot the movie, with the…
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Seance Offers a Reminder That Toxic Friends Are the Worst Kind of Evil
There are a lot of horror movies set at boarding schools — almost always all-girls’ boarding schools — and they tend to follow the same template: a new student realises something is off about her surroundings. Seance starts down that same path… but it sprinkles in some unexpected elements once it gets going.