All posts tagged "horror"
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Screen Gems: The Best Films of 2017
From gods to monsters to a family of cannibals, our critic recounts the ten best films of 2017
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Review: ‘It’ delivers frightening imagery and taut suspense
"It" unearths the monsters -- real and imagined -- that prey on a small town's innocence
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Scary Movies
According to Andy Scahill, gays have a special dark place in the horror canon
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Gothic Creep: Crimson Peak (review)
Guillermo del Toro’s visually ravishing Crimson Peak terrifies you in ways you least expect
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Review)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a gorgeous, thought-provoking game that refuses to mollycoddle players
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Evil Dead: The Musical
The Greenbelt Arts Center offers a production of Evil Dead: The Musical, an off Broadway stage adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult classic zombie film, featuring book...
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Queer as Carrie
When Kimberly Peirce, director of the 1999 Oscar-winning drama Boys Don't Cry, was offered the chance to helm a remake of the 1976 horror classic,...
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You’re Next: One bloody homage after another
There’s a moment near the climax of You’re Next, the plebeian slasher-fest from indie director Adam Wingard, that subtly evokes Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain, specifically...
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Seasonal Scares
If there's a perfect time to read The First Male, the fifth novel from local gay author Lee Hayes, that time is now. Published in...
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David Cronenberg’s Videodrome
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Monday night screening series, hosted by The Incorrigible Dr. Schlock....
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Halloween Outspoken: Scary Stuff [video]
In this edition of Outspoken, host Ebone Bell hits up the participants at the 25th Anniversary 17th Street High Heel Race in an attempt to...
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Rip-Off Artist
Say, do you like John Carpenter's The Thing? Or maybe its '50s predecessor, The Thing From Another World? I bet you'd be thrilled to hear...
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Blood Bath
Blood and guts and gore. Oh my! Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II delivers everything that you would expect from the sequel to the 2005 original:...
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Disenchanted
You know a romantic comedy is in trouble when the funniest line uttered is ''Hey there, I have Hepatitis C!'' It may not seem all...
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Monster Hash
It must have seemed like a good idea to someone, somewhere, in some altered state: Combine Universal's three biggest movie monster properties -- Dracula, Frankenstein...
