blog.spout.com - 27 days ago
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Still one more day til Halloween (Silver Shamrock!), but as this will be the final Today in Film Bloggery post ever on SpoutBlog, it’s my only opportunity to do a roundup of what the blogs are posting this week related to the holiday of candy and costumes.
I’ll actually be ...
filmschoolrejects.com - 27 days ago
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Poltergeist (1982) Synopsis: A young family are visited
by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts...
appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they “kidnap” the youngest ...
31 Days of Horror: Poltergeist
getthebigpicture.net - 27 days ago
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I know a thing or two about the
legendary War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938. It...
served as the initial inspiration for my master's thesis covering what was called "First Person Singular," the then-revolutionary narrative technique Orson Welles employed in his radio dramas, and how his ...
Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' Online Friday Night
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