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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Horror cinema’s chilling legacy from silent films to scream queens

Isabella Laikin October 28, 2024
With Halloween approaching, grab your comfort blanket, prepare to cover your eyes and get ready to scream, because horror films have a long and chilling history that will leave you completely spellbound.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Test your fears with these horror movies that deserve both screams and applause

Lea Tran October 21, 2024
Halloween waits eerily around the corner, and it’s the perfect time to test your fears. With endless options to choose from, horror movies are a perfect way to get into the spooky mood. But horror movies shouldn’t just be about making you scream — they should also be compelling and entertaining.  To help you decide your next scary watch, I’ve compiled a list of my personal favorite horror movies that deserve more attention. These movies not only had me hiding behind my friends, but also had me sitting on the edge of my seat.
Emma Clement | Graphic Artist

How I learned to fear the horror streaming bubble | You Scared Me!

Josh Rosenthal October 16, 2024
The streaming era of horror is starting to wear me down. With Halloween looming closer, both the Sarah Paulson-led “Hold Your Breath” and body-swap blast “It’s What’s Inside” debuted exclusively on Hulu and Netflix, respectively, this October — despite holding their world premieres at Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance. This furthers a recent trend of horror movies bypassing theaters altogether and getting sent straight to streaming — making a select few festival audiences some of the only people to experience these films on the big screen.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

REVIEW: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ is a fun lega-sequel full of clever references, but short on originality

Ruby Voge September 9, 2024

Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetle-...    We all know what happens next. Tim Burton’s iconic 1988 comedy-horror film has been lodged into the film world’s consciousness for decades. Its ingenious...

Netflix released its first Egyptian original series on Thursday titled “Paranormal.” ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: Egypt’s ‘Paranormal’ connects horror fans near and far

Nicole Bartuch November 6, 2020

Netflix’s highly-anticipated supernatural Arabic drama “Paranormal,” directed by Amr Salama, was released Thursday. The six-episode series is set in 1960s Egypt and is based on a bestselling...

Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

Rio’s Reel: Horror Movies — the last apolitical genre (part 2)

Rio Reardon October 28, 2020
The outstanding success of "Get Out" came as a surprise for many, not only because of the director’s creative background and relative inexperience, but also the film’s subject matter.
Rio’s Reel: Horror Movies — the last apolitical genre

Rio’s Reel: Horror Movies — the last apolitical genre

Rio Reardon October 21, 2020
It’s easy to see how all media, and really all of human activity, is political — every social activity involves making decisions, every set of humans is organized in some way and these organizations will influence the decisions that are made.
LAUNGJESSADAKUN: A complicated relationship with the jump scare

LAUNGJESSADAKUN: A complicated relationship with the jump scare

Michael Laungjessadakun October 4, 2016

I think we can all agree that jump scares are the worst. They’re cheap, tasteless and more often than not, poorly executed. Most of the time, the scares aren’t even frightening, but rather startling,...

Marlon Wayans on frighteningly funny ‘A Haunted House 2’

Daily Free Press Admin April 16, 2014

“I think a lot of funny people are really tormented souls. I’m not. I’m just crazy,” admitted Marlon Wayans in a loud, boisterous voice at a roundtable discussion at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on...

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