Club Dread Finds The Broken Lizard Troupe Taking Slasher Fans to Margaritaville

Though it wasn’t a box office success during its release, Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers quickly gained a cult following. It was enough of a following to earn Broken Lizard another feature-length effort, the slasher parody Club Dread. To some extent, Broken Lizard were a bit late to the game. Just eight years earlier Wes Craven […]

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Frailty: Southern Gothic Horror A Disturbing Study of Religious Fever

Over the course of his career, the late Bill Paxton put together an impressive list of credits. A small, but memorable appearance in Terminator, led to star-making supporting roles in Aliens and Near Dark. By the 1990s, Paxton scored roles in several blockbusters including Apollo 13, Twister, and Titanic. But Paxton only got behind the […]

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The Alien Franchise: Ranking the Films from Worst to First

On May 25th, 1979, Alien was released in the United States. In the almost 40 years following its release, Ridley Scott’s landmark horror film has inspired sequels, prequels, crossovers, and countless imitators. It’s the rare example of a movie that has lost none of its potency with subsequent viewings. To celebrate its anniversary, for this […]

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