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Title Fright: The Babadook v Under the Shadow

December 13, 2020 by Varya Clark in Title Fright

The Babadook and Under the Shadow are uncannily similar films. But which is better?

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December 13, 2020 /Varya Clark
Essie Davis, Jennifer kent, The Babadook, Under the Shadow, motherhood, horror, horror cinema, elevated horror, difficult children, autism, Babak Anvari, under the shadow, Narges Rashidi
Title Fright

The Haunting of Hill House

December 19, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

It was as if Shirley Jackson's classic novel had been haunting me from the future…

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December 19, 2017 /Varya Clark
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King, Eleanor, Carrie, #amwriting, horror, haunted house
Books

Title Fright - Train to Busan versus World War Z

December 11, 2017 by Varya Clark in Title Fright, Film, Video, Zombies

I initially intended to pair Train to Busan with La Horde, but Twitter said no.

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December 11, 2017 /Varya Clark
World War Z, Train to Busan, zombie, horror, film, titlefright, Title Fright, #titlefright
Title Fright, Film, Video, Zombies
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Introducing Twit Follows

December 03, 2017 by Varya Clark in Twit Follows

I'm going to start following twitter accounts in an ominious new way by reviewing them. Feeling creeped? Fabulous. Look behind you!

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December 03, 2017 /Varya Clark
twitter, It Follows, horror, David Robert Mitchell
Twit Follows

Hell House LLC

December 01, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Never mind how Hell House LLC compares with other found footage films. It's a nearly perfect horror movie, period.

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December 01, 2017 /Varya Clark
Stephen Cognetti, Hell House LLC, found footage, horror, horror film
Film

A Cure for Wellness

November 24, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Self-indulgent, far too long and wildly overblown, but I still liked it a great deal…

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November 24, 2017 /Varya Clark
A Cure for Wellness, horror, Gore Verbinksi, Mia Goth, Dane DeHaan
Film
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How New York does Spooky

November 03, 2017 by Varya Clark in Travel

Yes, yes, yes, I know, Halloween is over. I've told my husband, who took these photos, all about news values but he says I'm just 'old media'. He is insisting I do this post so here goes.

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November 03, 2017 /Varya Clark
halloween, consumer culture, New York, spooky, memento mori, horror
Travel

Rewatching The Babadook

November 03, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Rewatching The Babadook, it feels viscerally real, as if I've lived it.

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November 03, 2017 /Varya Clark
motherhood, horror, horror film, problem child, Babadook, Jennifer kent, Monster
Film

Kuso

October 18, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

So Kuso, a film by Steve. What was all that about eh? As we say here in the UK about anything remotely unusual.

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October 18, 2017 /Varya Clark
horror, film, kuso, flying lotus, shudder, film review, music
Film

Scary mountains - Thin Air by Michelle Paver

October 15, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

I am a BIG fan of Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. Not much frightens me but even years after reading it, the central image still gets me in the viscera.

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October 15, 2017 /Varya Clark
Thin Air, Michelle Paver, ghosts, mountains, Dyatlov Pass Incident, horror, horror fiction
Books

Paperback arrives

October 14, 2017 by Varya Clark in MV Clark

Just got the uncorrected paperback delivered.

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October 14, 2017 /Varya Clark
self-publishing, zombies, cover designs, horror fiction, horror
MV Clark
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