“Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, He sounds too blue to fly…” Hank Williams Hicksploitation hasn’t done The South any favors. As far as horror is concerned, In the Hell of Dixie might be the curative, showing that people south of the Mason-Dixon line are more than leering, inbred cousin-f*ckers. The Lizzie Borden artwork telegraphs supernatural, but this one’s all slasher.Continue reading “In the Hell of Dixie”
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Top 10 Horror Movie Heroes
In his seminal 1949 work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, American mythologist Joseph Campbell introduced the concept of the monomyth, otherwise known as “The Hero’s Journey.” In doing so, Campbell defined the archetypical hero and posited that all heroic stories are based on the same mythological themes. According to Campbell, “A hero ventures forthContinue reading “Top 10 Horror Movie Heroes”
Really Awful Movies 