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Chad Collins

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As seen in: Dread Central, IMDb, Medium, MSN, Yahoo Entertainment, Metacritic, /Film, moviefone, DreadXP, Screen Queens
Covers:  Horror, LGBTQ, Reviews
Associate Editor @dreadcentral/@dorianawards member. Previous bylines: @slashfilm, @gaylydreadful, @certifiedforgot, @manorvellum, @ruemorgue, others🎃

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Lover of horror.
Email at Chad.Collins@aim.com

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‘Dopefoot’: A Must-Read Cryptid Horror Novel

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By Chad Collins 
| Dread Central
Note: Dopefoot author Josh Millican previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Dread Central Dopefoot is dope. Josh Millican’s (Chopping Mall novelization, Deeper Than Hell) occult creature feature is brimming with radical, subversive ideas. Today’s world of horror publishing, especially indie horror publishing, is richer than it ever has been, but you need to know where to look.
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Aliens are Friend and Foe in ‘The Experiencers: Full Disclosure’ [Review]

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By Chad Collins 
| Dread Central
Aliens are a curious thing, no? There are the spindly, acidic variants of Ridley Scott’s Alien universe, stark contrasts to the silly “banana” obsessed variety of Dandadan. They’re envisioned as little gray men who kidnap adults (see: The Forgotten, The Fourth Kind), or temporal goobs with the power to bring Amy Adams to tears (Arrival). They’re also Dean Alito’s bread and butter.
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Review: ‘Kraken’ Goes Full Spielberg, for Better or Worse

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By Chad Collins 
| Dread Central
There was a discussion online a few weeks ago about Obsession and Backrooms, namely with regard to how this generation’s filmmakers use other filmmakers as a point of reference almost exclusively. Instead of culling from literature, art, poetry, and other media, their homage is strictly cinematic, and the result is reductive cinema in conversation with only cinema. I thought of that discourse a lot while watching Kraken, the latest from Norwegian filmmaker Pål Øie.
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