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Fall River Review: The Satanic Panic Scares Up Another Bad Conviction

Fall River, a four-part docuseries running on Epix, is structured like a rollercoaster. Every episode cranks up the suspense, building to a conclusion, and then drops the viewer into an emotional freefall. Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murder, Fall River, Massachusetts, hosted a second trial of the century. But this one was more like the witch hunts held in Salem, just over an hour’s drive away. Three women were killed in 1979, and the police and media blamed a devilish sect. The cult leader, a pimp named Carl Drew, declared himself Satan, and held his flock…
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Phasmophobia Hackers Are Using Jump Scares to Haunt Streamers

In case you haven’t heard, Phasmophobia has quickly become the surprise horror game of 2020 as well as the unexpected darling of the ever-evolving streaming scene. What is Phasmophobia? It’s a 4 player co-op game that sees you and three friends (or whoever is available) hunt down ghosts across various haunted locations. It’s essentially every ghost hunting show you’ve ever become strangely addicted to, but the very important twist is that the ghosts are both real and the source of some of the most effective scares that we’ve seen in years. On the surface, Phasmophobia probably doesn’t sound like the…
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Haunted Hollywood Host David Del Valle Scares Up More Movie Madness

“The police don’t believe in monsters,” we learned in Ed Woods’ 1955 B-movie horror favorite Bride of the Monster. But Full Moon Features does, and they know where to find them. On Friday, July 31, the channel and app dropped seven cult classics to their new 20-film series Haunted Hollywood. Every Friday for 13 weeks, they will add a new scary flick. Some of these films are frightening in their content, others for the stories behind the film. For some of these movies, the most horrifying thing is they ever got made in the first place.  Real life and Hollywood…
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The Rental Trailer Throws Scares at Alison Brie and Dan Stevens

Dave Franco is hoping his first stab at directing will be a good one. The star of Now You See Me, Scrubs and The Disaster Artist will debut his first feature film next month – a horror, called The Rental. With a cast led by Franco’s real-life wife Alison Brie (GLOW), Dan Stevens (Apostle), Sheila Vand (Snowpiercer), and Jeremy Allen White (Shameless), the film presents itself as a pretty taut vacation thriller in its first trailer, which arrived online this week. Franco says he was mulling our ability to throw caution to the wind when it comes to a little…
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