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Megan is Missing (2011)

Megan is Missing (2011)

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

Employing a mix of storytelling techniques (including webcam footage, video chats and dramatized news reports), this chillingly realistic thriller charts the disappearance of two teens who vanish three weeks apart under mysterious circumstances. This is based on a few true cases meshed together.

Book Review: Run by Blake Crouch

Book Review: Run by Blake Crouch

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike.A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state. They’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more. You only have time to….RUN

Book Review: Little Demons by Marty Shaw

Book Review: Little Demons by Marty Shaw

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

Welcome to Hale (Pop. 666). After a car heist goes wrong, a narrow escape from the police has Frank driving into the little town of Hale, where he thinks he’s found the answer to his prayers. Unfortunately, this is Hale and the little town has more in common with that other ‘H’ place than Frank realizes. He thinks an old farmer and his sexy daughter are the perfect victims to rob, but his opinion might change before the sun comes up… if he lives that long.

Jason Goes to Hell (1993)

Jason Goes to Hell (1993)

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Jason has been tracked down by an FBI task force and blown to smithereens. But it doesn’t appear to have stopped him. In the cold dim morgue the coroner deems Jason’s heart tasteful and takes a huge bite out of it, transferring Jason’s dark spirit into his body. However, the body will is not strong enough to carry such an evil spirit, and soon he must find another one, one that fits him better, one that is related to him by blood. The body of his sister, or his niece….

Book Review: Friday The 13th by Simon Hawke

Book Review: Friday The 13th by Simon Hawke

My Rating: ★★★★½

It was going to be a fun summer at Camp Crystal. The young counselors were getting ready for it while they joked about the scary rumors attached to the isolated camp. But evil was waiting in the shadows as the sun set. The laughter turned to screams…the easy living to agonized dying. For the light had gone and the wind was howling and it was — Friday The 13th. This is the novelization to the hit Horror movie Friday The 13th.

Book Review: Endurance (A Novel of Terror) by Jack Kilborn

Book Review: Endurance (A Novel of Terror) by Jack Kilborn

My Rating: ★★★½☆

The bed and breakfast was hidden in the hills of West Virginia. Wary guests wondered how it could stay in business at such a creepy, remote location, especially with its bizarre, presidential decor and eccentric proprietor.With the event hotel for the national Iron Woman triathlon accidentally overbooked, competitor Maria was forced to stay at the Rushmore. But after checking into her room, she quickly realized she wasn’t alone. First her suitcase wasn’t where she put it. Then her cell phone was moved. Finally, she heard an odd creaking under the bed. Confusion quickly turned to fear, and fear to hysteria when she discovered the front door was barred and the windows were bricked over. There was no way out.One year later, four new female athletes have become guests of the Inn. Will they escape the horrors within its walls? Or will they join the many others who have died there, in ways too terrible to imagine?

Book Review: Scary Stories 3 More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

Book Review: Scary Stories 3 More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

Here are more hair-raising tales that will make your flesh creep, from a master teller of the world’s scariest stories. Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death? Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

My Rating: ★★★★☆

Melvin Junko is the out cast janitor at the Tromaville Health Club. Nobody liked him. After a prank gone wrong, which causes Melvin to fall into a barrel nuclear waste, which transforms him into a hideously deformed creature of super human size and strength. Melvin became… The Toxic Avenger! The Toxic Avenger is mopping the streets, getting rid of the muggers and the rapists. But will Tromaville’s corrupt mayor stop him?

Book Review: Jest (It Waits No Longer) by David Warren

Book Review: Jest (It Waits No Longer) by David Warren

My Rating: ★★★★☆

College student Nicole Carzon is stunned to find herself named heir to her grandfather’s castle in England. When she and her friends arrive there, they are overwhelmed with the history and nostalgia pulsating from the 600-year-old Bodlum Castle. However, they soon come to realize, this castle has an ancient occupant that has been lying dormant and patiently waiting for hundreds of years. It waits no longer.

Grave Encounters (2011)

Grave Encounters (2011)

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

In this horror flick, the stars of a paranormal-investigation TV show spend the night in a derelict psychiatric hospital, hoping to uncover what’s been going bump in the night. As their cameras roll, they find themselves trapped — and hunted.

Se7en (1995)

Se7en (1995)

My Rating: ★★★★★

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the “seven deadly sins” in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset (Morgan Freeman) researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer’s mind, while his novice partner, Mills (Brad Pitt), scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.