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Robert Haimer is gone. Well, at least in his physical form, since a cat like that can never truly be gone. Some artists are so...

I originally wrote this back in 2017 for my old Mondo Heather blog. It's now a few years later and this album is STILL out-of-print....

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Throughout the decades of horror cinema, various descriptors are often invoked when it comes to characters, both heroes and villains...

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Recently, the British Film Institute’s publication, Sight & Sound, conducted their once-a-decade poll where key professional film...

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