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Scare Up the Vote Unites the Horror Community

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“These are scary times,” says Tananarive Due, the American Book Award-winning author of The Reformatory and the driving force behind ScareUpTheVote, an effort to bring the all-stars of horror fiction and film together in support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Scare Up the Vote brings together voices across generations, diverse backgrounds and beliefs to unite the horror community for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. 

In scary times, people need to pull together in strength and hope, to fight the darkness. Horror writers and filmmakers spend a lot of time contemplating monstrosity and thinking about fear. When I realized we had to speak out as a community, and began to invite others to participate, I wasn’t at all surprised by the massive response. We know what the stakes are in this election because we’ve imagined the worst possible outcomes.
–Tananarive Due

On October 15th, at 8pm Eastern time, Due and the rest of the Scare Up The Vote committee will host a massive online event to drive voter turnout and to raise money for the Harris/Walz campaign. Stephen King, Joe Hill, Rachel Harrison, Victor LaValle, Stephen Graham Jones, and many other authors will be joined by filmmakers including Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep), Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, The Black Phone), Kevin Williamson (Scream), Don Mancini (Chucky), and Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Star Trek: Discovery), along with actor David Dastmachlian (Late Night with the Devil).

The two-hour-plus event will include the guests talking about their love of horror stories alongside their thoughts about why the upcoming election is important to them and will stream live on October 15th. 

Due’s co-hosts and fellow committee members are authors and poets Linda A. Addison, Maxwell I. Gold, Christopher Golden, and Cynthia Pelayo with production managed by Robb Olson. 

For more information about and how to register for Scare Up the Vote, visit https://www.scareupthevote.com

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Dead Day Goes from Comics to Television

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Dead Day, published by AfterShock, is going straight-to-series on Peacock. The comic was by writer/creator Ryan Parrott, art by Evgeniy Bornyakov, color by Juancho!, and lettering by Charles Pritchett.

Dead Day follows various story threads all revolving around the annual “dead day” when for one night, the dead come back to complete unfinished business. That could be a reason to celebrate or torment the living. The comic ran for five issues with a second volume coming.

Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson will serve as co-showrunners, writers, and executive producers.

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Movie Review – Scream 4

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Scream 4I loved the first Scream film.  I remember it fondly coming out when I was in the tail end of high school.  Me and my friends saw multiple times and giggled each time seeing it.  It’s follow ups weren’t even close to capturing the fun of the first, but included enough to make them entertaining, but not necessarily good.  So, I went into Scream 4 expecting a movie on par with the second and third iterations and by the end, I was actually pleasantly surprised.

It’s been a decade in both the movie and since the last Scream and Sidney Prescott, the heroine of the first three, has moved on with her life no longer the victim, but instead preaching empowerment.  When she returns to her home town though, this opens up all kinds of shenanigans and of course the return of Ghostface to hack and slash in new ways.

The first half of the movie is quite good with an opening that’s fantastic, sending up the fact this is the fourth film in the series and having some great commentary about sequels and modern horror movies and gore porn.  The problem is, such a fantastic opening makes you expect the rest of the movie to hold that sort of cheeky/meta wink throughout.  It holds up at times but quickly spirals into a ho-hum movie that instead of a new direction and a fresh start with a new generation, we’re left with the same old.

There’s a lot here that I like.  It totally throws out the rule book for horror movies and sticks to these new rules.  It really does update the horror film for the new technology savvy generation.  Wouldn’t today’s victims be texting, checking in on foursquare and making Facebook statuses?  The answer in this movie is yes and it plays off of that.

It’s hard to totally review the movie without blowing the great twists and giving away what I really liked.  But, for the most part the villain is predictable, even though there’s so many red herrings that are attempted to be thrown out there.

Overall, the movie is entertaining and fun.  It wasn’t a bad way to spend a Saturday night and the audience seemed to have some fun, though it was the most reserved audience I’ve seen a Scream movie with.  I walked out having enjoyed myself, and you can do a lot worse.  The movie derails towards the end, but the first three quarters hold up quite well.

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