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March, 2022
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Movie Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Letterboxd: 2 1/2 stars out of 5 Is it fun? Yes. Fede Alvarez horror movies are fun. Is it good? …No. Is it a worthy sequel? No. I appreciate Kim Henkel and John Laroquette’s involvement, and I loved the use of the original cast’s photo as a
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Movie Review: Keep Sweet (2021)
Letterboxd: 4 out of 5 stars This was fascinating, especially considering the legal and religious issues involving paying property taxes—these people are willing to lose their homes on what they believe to be hallowed grounds, and render their huge families homeless, because they don’t believe in signing contracts
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Bringing in 2022 with a good book: My Life As a Rat
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Movie Review: The Children (2008) Christmas Horror
and disability in horror
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Movie Review: The Advent Calendar (2021)
Letterboxd link 4 stars This review does contain mild spoilers. Being disabled and a wheelchair user, I love seeing any horror movie like this. Yes, people are this casually cruel speaking to and about me. I once had a man say to me, “You don’t expect to get almost
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Horror locations for The Sims 4
The Defeo House: The Amityville Horror (requires these quarter moon windows): info about the Defeo murders, The Amityvile Horror by Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror (1974) and The Amityville Horror (2005) Hill House: Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House miniseries (2018), and The Haunting (1963), based upon Shirley
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Honored by Podchaser!
Podchaser added There Might Be Cupcakes to a big list: 60 Best Podcasts to Discover in November 2021. I am so honored and humbled. I am on there with huge podcasts that I admire, including Stuff You Should Know, Storytelling with Seth Rogen, and…drumroll…History of Horror Uncut with
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Movie Review: Midnight Mass (2021)
Letterboxd link: 5 stars Moral: Be careful whom you allow to get between yourself and God. People who need to control everything and always be involved terrify me. I know someone like Bev, and she is actually a church person. I love the metaphor of “Crock Pot” Island; a crock
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Movie Review: The Lost Boys (1987)
Letterboxd link: 5 stars, of course Saw this on the big screen for the first time since it came out—then I was 15, Sam’s now I am the age of his mom, Lucy. But no! My friend that accompanied me looked up Dianne Wiest’s age at the
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Episode 72: What’s Your Motivation, Heather?
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