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Possession (1981) is a Metaphor of a Crumbling Marriage

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  Credit to  Possession (1981) – Andrzej Zulawski – The Mind Reels Possession is one of the most brutal horror films ever made. It feels like you're being exposed to the personal lives of a family, and it feels so wrong to watch these people stuck in a failing marriage. This movie is about a young woman who admits to her husband that she is having an affair, and wants to leave him. He becomes outraged and obsessed with her, angry that she would dare to ruin their marriage, and leave behind their only son.  The couple beat each other and appear to even take a sick delight with harming one another, as they both try to navigate this toxic love now within their marriage. During the film, we later learn the man that Anna, the wife, is having an affair with. It turns out to be a real monster, a creature that has appeared to latch onto Anna, leaving her wanting more, and turning her into a crazed mad woman. Mark, the husband, eventually finds out about this creature, and instead...
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It's Impossible to Rank Mike Flanagan's Horror Television Shows

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  Credit to Netflix I have been asked by several family members or friends if I could rank all of the Mike Flangan’s TV shows. My answer is always the same.  It’s impossible to rank the shows.  Each show is it’s own standalone story, and it’s masterfully crafted by Flanagan, giving horror fans all kinds of horror that we will never forget.  I’m only going to focus on the main four, which is The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. I’m now going to explain why every show stands out in its own way.  The Haunting of Hill House is a story about a family who is haunted by their childhood trauma from their old home.  Credit to Grabuge Mag — Binge-watching en série à Noël : The Haunting of Hill House sur Netflix - This masterpiece was the perfect introduction into the horror world of Mike Flanagan. Dare I say, that this show is actually better than the book. We go back and forth between the...
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Outlast Has One of the Most Shocking Endings in Horror Gaming

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  Credit to  Outlast At Last! | trivialpunk Outlast has one of the best endings I have seen in a horror game. I remember the first time I had played this game. It was an experience I will never forget. Struggling to survive inside of an asylum, as I play a journalist trying to collect evidence through a camcorder was a genius idea by the game developers. The thought of being completely helpless, not being able to fight, only to run, really worked for the what the game was going for.  We follow the story of a man named Miles, who is determined to figure out why an asylum was shut down out of nowhere. He breaks into the building, only to discover that everyone in the asylum is insane, due to extreme experimentation the patients had undergone. Some of the patients now have monstrous like forms, as they hunt down Miles, who is like prey to them.  Miles goes through so much in this game, and he suffers on another level. He goes through psychological torture, and even gets...
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Does The Boys Deserve to be Seen as a Horror Show?

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  Credit to  The Boys (TV Series 2019–2026) - IMDb I have only watched the first two seasons of The Boys, including half of season 3 so far. I have to say, that this show feels like a horror television show. I think it has to do with the reality horror that takes place in the story. We are following the story of a villain who is a powerful superhero, who is a monster through and through. There are no redeeming qualities about this man, because he has done too much evil, and it would be impossible for him to get a redemption arc. The show revolves around him from the very beginning, as we focus on the company that brought him to life, known as Vought.  Their superhero creations like Homelander led to so much torture and suffering among other characters who unfortunately happened to run into their path. The main character witnessed the murder of his girlfriend by one of the main superheroes from Homelander's team, a young woman known as Starlight is tortured by a man the fi...
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We Deserve a Franchise for American Mcgee's Alice

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  Credit to  Alice: Madness Returns | Down the rabbit hole of insanity - Hypercritic American Mcgee's Alice is one of the few games that deserves a trilogy or a franchise. The first game had a dark and disturbing story, while the second game expanded upon the story, giving horror fans an unforgettable gaming experience. Alice Madness Returns is one of my favorite games ever made. The story captured me the first time I played the game. We follow Alice still trying to recover from the trauma of losing her entire family to a fire, while she is battling literal demons within her mind. She had murdered her imaginary friends from the Alice in Wonderland tale, and was now seeking their help in her mind to help her find the person who murdered her family.  It's both awesome and sad to see Alice seek the aid her friends inside of her mind. It was obviously an escape from reality, since her life wasn't exactly the best. Even though she appeared to be stable from what she had gone t...
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The Darkest Moment of The Walking Dead

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  Credit to  Goodbye Lizzie & Mika | The Walking Dead | Grove The Walking Dead is one of the best zombie shows that depicted many dark scenes throughout the entire show. A show that focuses on the survival of the main group as they go against both humans and the dead doesn't exactly mean a walk in the park. One scene in season 4 that stayed with me for a long time was two deaths that were quite unexpected. A woman named Carol was traveling with five people when their home had been destroyed by one of their enemies. Carol had been unfortunately kicked out of the group for killing two innocent people to protect everyone, and she reunited with a man named Tyreese, who had been traveling with three children.  One of them was a baby, and the other two were two girls named Lizzie and Mika that Carol had developed a motherly bond with before she was kicked out of the group. The group decides to work together to survive, and they stay in a cabin to claim as their new home. Th...
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My Biggest Problem with the Twilight Franchise

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  Credit to Netflix Twilight became a huge hit years later when the franchise was first released. It gained a massive fan base, when it came to the story, the love triangle, and of course, the books which led to the creation of the films.  Personally, I was not a fan of Twilight at all.  I understand why people were a fan of the franchise, but I have a huge problem with the story for several reasons. I'm not saying that the whole franchise was bad, because when it came to the lore of the monsters, I thought there were actually pretty decent ideas. I liked how the vampires had their own clan, while the werewolves had issues with a family of vampire wanting to look after a young human girl.  It's not bad writing, but when it came to several storylines within the franchise, it kind of took me out of the interesting ideas that were present.  I didn't like the stupid love triangle between the three main characters...and the way that it was resolved was very problemat...
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