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Sunday Scaries: Yet Another 31 Days of Halloween
Longtime readers and/or listeners of the Awards Radar podcast will likely know that the spooky season is my absolute favorite time of the year. Even though I’ve been too old for trick-or-treating for a long while now, and am probably too old for most adult-oriented costume parties at this point, that doesn’t stop me from […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Lamenting the Allegory
Note: Spoilers for Hellraiser and The Invisible Man are discussed. I want to expand a bit on my recently-reiterated frustration with many late-stage “Elevated Horror” movies becoming more explicit in their thematic messaging, bordering on didactic patronizing. At worst, this will result in an overlong, pretentious, dour slog that isn’t scary and is more interested […] More
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Sunday Scaries: “Evil Never Dies” But It Can Sure Get Musty
Note: Spoilers ahead for Halloween Ends. Boy oh boy Halloween Ends seems to have provoked the intensely polarized reactions that Joey predicted it would. Some fans are furious that this is the swan song for Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode and the iconic embodiment of capital-E Evil Personified Michael Myers: Though others have joined Joey […] More
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Sunday Scaries: October is the Best Time of the Year for Horror Films
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: After ‘X’ and ‘Pearl’ I Can’t Wait for Ti West’s ‘MaXXXine’
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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in Op-ed
Sunday Scaries: The Hellbound Opportunity
Of all the iconic horror movie franchises birthed within that “boom” period between 1973 and 1988, Hellraiser is probably the most interesting to me. Not the overall best; until those stupid prequels came along, I’d have handily picked Alien as pound-for-pound the most artistically accomplished horror franchise overall. Not the one with the highest highs; […] More
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On the Radar… and Sunday Scaries Crossover Edition for October!
As the fall season gets going and possible awards contenders emerge (congratulations to Laura Poitras, by the way), it’s also the time when I have to make some decisions as I shape up the rest of the year’s On the Radar… entries. I can’t write a short novel every month covering every upcoming release in […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Haunting of Bly Manor and Love’s Lingering Presence
The last time I had the pleasure of writing for the Sunday Scaries, I talked about The Haunting of Hill House and how it explored mental health issues and depression as more harming than the actual supernatural elements present in the story. Two years after that show premiered on Netflix, Mike Flanagan released The Haunting […] More
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Sunday Scaries: A “Classic” As Groundbreaking As It Is Terrible
Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most ambitious, ahead-of-its-time horror movies of the 21st century was released, containing traces of virtually every aesthetic and trope that would become increasingly popular for the genre in the years since. Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most dreary, incoherent, luridly misogynistic torture porn nonsense […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Haunting of Hill House and Its Most Frightening Ghost
Lets talk about one of the most emotional horror stories of the last decade… The Haunting of Hill House was a horror television series created by Mike Flanagan for Netflix. All of its ten episodes released on October 12th, 2018 to stellar reviews. The miniseries told the story of the Crain family and the terrible […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Now Go Back to Basics with the ‘Alien’ Franchise
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Simple is Best When It Comes to ‘Predator’
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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