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Veteran producer Damien Douglas is about to embark on his most epic quest yet: fulfilling a decades-long dream to put a unique…
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Joe Dante visits the Severin Cellar and finds some old friends. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are on the menu, so join…
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Hell Scoop: Dreaming Of Saws
Welcome to our brand-new spooky column Hell Scoop, wherein we will offer sneak peaks at this week’s upcoming horror and thriller releases.…
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The Die Hard Villain Power Rankings
With perhaps the greatest action movie ever turning 35 years young today, I think it’s high time we tackled the eternal question…
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MAD about Catch-22
Catch-22 as seen by the Usual Gang of Idiots in Mad Magazine, issue #141 (March 1971)—with some fascinating reader mail.
