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Creator or Creature? A Nightmare Wakes dramatizes the birth of Frankenstein

Creator or Creature? A Nightmare Wakes dramatizes the birth of Frankenstein

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Alix Wilton Regan stars as Mary Shelley in the throes of creating her timeless literary masterpiece in A Nightmare Wakes.It's one of the most famous origin stories in literary history. One summer night in 1816 in Geneva, Lord Byron hosted a gathering of his fellow Romantics, including Percy Shelley and his lover (soon-to-be wife), Mary…
18 Halloween Thrillers That Are Scary but Not Gory

18 Halloween Thrillers That Are Scary but Not Gory

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Screenshot: The Conjuring/Warner Bros.I give director James Wan an awful lot of credit. After making a boatload of money creating the Saw franchise (a series of movies that popularized the term “torture porn”), he turned around and reinvented the spooky haunted house genre in Insidious and The Conjuring. Tastes in thrillers vary wildly, but it’s…
What’s New on HBO Max in September 2022

What’s New on HBO Max in September 2022

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It’s been a totally chill and normal month for HBO Max. Definitely nothing significant happened to affect the best streaming service around, like, say, new CEO David Zaslav canceling a bunch of forthcoming shows and even a $90 million Batgirl movie and making the decision to remove a bunch of content—including movies and shows produced…
11 Expansive Cinematic Universes That Aren’t Marvel or Star Wars

11 Expansive Cinematic Universes That Aren’t Marvel or Star Wars

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Famous ghosts put on a ghoulish display at Japan baseball gameThe worlds of Ju-On and Ring, two Japanese horror mega-franchises that made it big in North America, weren’t linked until 2016, roughly two decades after they kicked off. Ju-on, also known as The Grudge, began as a couple of short films and expanded into the…
20 Movies That Have Definitely Not Aged Well

20 Movies That Have Definitely Not Aged Well

Movies date themselves for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes what seemed great when we were kids looks silly to adult eyes. Other times the whys are more complicated—think Rambo III and The Living Daylights making heroes of mujahideen jihadists because, at the time, they were fighting the Soviets. Standards change, too, often for the better—we…
12 Pre-Code Movies That Prove Hollywood Was Always Obsessed With Crime, Violence, and Sex

12 Pre-Code Movies That Prove Hollywood Was Always Obsessed With Crime,...

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Screenshot: The Night NurseThis week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set of censorship standards Hollywood rigorously adhered to from 1934 through the late 1960s. It all began with…
Remote, Cold Area Rock Had ‘Frankenstein’ Starts

Remote, Cold Area Rock Had ‘Frankenstein’ Starts

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Less than three months after the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past a distant, cold space rock, scientists are beginning to piece together the story of how that object, nicknamed Ultima Thule, came to be. In a series of scientific presentations held March 18 at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, mission…
How the mystery of electricity helped 18-year-old Mary Shelley create ‘Frankenstein’

How the mystery of electricity helped 18-year-old Mary Shelley create ‘Frankenstein’

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In 1818 Mary Shelley published “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.”In the novel, Frankenstein brings a creature to life with a "spark of being."Grotesque experiments with electricity and corpses may have inspired Shelley. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app In the new…

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