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“Outlast 2’s” Demo is Impressively Frightening

October 26, 2016December 16, 2017 Gabe Carrio0

Set to release sometime in spring 2017, Red Barrels Games’ “Outlast 2” is a follow-up to 2013’s “Outlast,” a first-person survival horror game set in a rundown asylum. A demo for the sequel was released on Oct. 4 and takes about a half hour to get through. This sets the stage for how the full-release will play and what it will be about. Rather

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“Hush Hush” is Nothing to be Quiet About

October 26, 2016February 26, 2018 Annie Boghigian0

Nora is your typical high school sophomore. Typical is a rather trivial word for what the rest of the book holds for its readers. Author of the New York Times Bestseller “Hush, Hush,” Becca Fitzpatrick, writes a story around Nora who lives in a secluded part of Maine. Nora’s father was recently killed, murdered to be specific, and Nora is left with her mom,

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Netflick of the Week: “Hush”

October 26, 2016December 16, 2017 Gabe Carrio0

A film easily overlooked many times while browsing Netflix for something scary to watch, “Hush,” is surprisingly high quality. Every movie or TV show you hover over on Netflix gives you a description and a series of thumbnails to preview what you're about to watch. The thumbnails “Hush” give look silly and give the impression it would a B-grade horror flick. Unexpectedly, that is

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“Blair Witch”: A Confusing but Frightening Homage

October 26, 2016January 3, 2018 Gabe Carrio0

“Blair Witch,” released on Sept. 16, directed by Adam Wingard, is a pretty clear showing of respect to the original “Blair Witch Project” from 1999. That’s not to say it should be regarded any lower or not treated as its own film. On its own, “Blair Witch” is honestly terrifying. While it follows the same general sequence of events as the original, this sequel/remake/reboot

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You Can’t Run from the ‘Scary Monsters’

October 26, 2016February 26, 2018 Nick Klotz0

Often regarded as the last great David Bowie album, 1980’s “Scary Monsters” sees the king of costume changes looking back to his past success and taking aim at the future. The album is Bowie at his darkest but also his most popsensible. “It’s No Game (No. 1)” kicks off the album with an urgent, unhinged Bowie. His vocals come in shrieks and yelps in

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Hold on to Your Socks for the Spook-tacular “Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon”

October 26, 2016November 27, 2017 Mustapha R. Price0

The first brother of gaming is back with his signature vacuum in “Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon.” Step into the quivering shoes of Luigi, who is out to restore balance to Evershade Valley. The once benevolent ghosts of the land have gone mad thanks to the shattering of the fabled Dark Moon. Professor E. Gadd calls the one ghost buster he knows he can count

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The Magnificence of “The Magnificent Seven”

October 16, 2016December 17, 2017 Gabe Carrio0

Released on Sept. 23, Antoine Fuqua's “The Magnificent Seven” is an excellent retelling of a story about revenge and self-preservation in the wild west. Set in the late 1800s, the small town of Rose Creek has been taken over by industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) and his army of hired goons. He wants to take the town and turn it into a mining facility,

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Take a Trip to the Adventure Zone

October 12, 2016April 1, 2018 May Mullen0

"The Adventure Zone" is a comedy-parody Dungeons & Dragons podcast hosted by the Mcelroy family (of Monster Factory and "My Brother, My Brother, and Me" fame) that has been releasing episodes bi-weekly for the last two years. Varying knowledge of D&D, hilarious character and superb plot-writing by Griffin Mcelroy, their Dungeon Master, make the podcast a must-listen even for those who have never considered

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Touche Amore’s “Stage Four”: Heart Wrenching Hardcore

October 12, 2016December 17, 2017 Nick Klotz0

We will all, at some point, go through the pain of losing a loved one, if we haven’t already. Jeremy Bolm of California melodic hardcore band Touché Amoré lost his mother to cancer. Everyone has to find their own way to heal, and his way was to use his band’s latest album, “Stage Four” to tell a story honoring her memory; the title is

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Everything I Never Told You

October 12, 2016December 17, 2017 Wyndee Man0

Released on Jun. 26, 2014, “Everything I Never Told You” is the debut novel by Celeste Ng that tells a story about the death of teenager Lydia Lee, exposing her family’s secrets. It might not be a relaxing or pleasant reading experience seeing as the story deals with the death of a family's favorite daughter, but it's a story worth reading. Lydia is young,