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Katherine (Katie Rife) is a freelance writer, critic, and film programmer based outside of New York City. She was a writer for The A.V. Club from 2014-2022, and has written about film for outlets like Indiewire, RogerEbert.com, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Polygon, IGN, Fangoria, Inverse, and Letterboxd, where she has a column about restorations and reissues. She is also the shorts programmer for the Overlook Film Festival, a “celebration of all things horror” in New Orleans, LA.

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Bruce Campbell Announces Ash Williams’ Retirement

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Ash Williams is laying down his boomstick. And good for him. It was hard enough for him to watch two girlfriends in a row get turned into Deadites back in the ‘80s, and then before he even had the chance to finish his shift at S-Mart, he got hurled back into the medieval era to fight stop-motion skeletons. He tried to leave the supernatural butt-kicking game after that, but he just couldn’t park the Necronomicon on the shelf, and his adventures continued on premium cable.
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Bruce Campbell Announces Ash Williams’ Retirement

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entertainment news 2 days ago Peachfuzz expands his gnarly canon in The Creep Tapes season three trailer The A.V. Club - Jarrod Jones • 2d The Mark Duplass-starring Shudder anthology series returns on September 15. Horror movie franchises making a successful leap to television is a wonderful, welcome phenomenon.
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36 Years Later, A Horror Legend’s Impact Can Still Be Felt In A Wild And Gross Thriller

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Wild Street/Kobal/Shutterstock Earlier this week, some of the more delightfully weird corners of the internet wept as they learned of the loss of Screaming Mad George, who passed earlier this year at the age of 69. Although he had a name befitting a rock star — and he did front his share of punk bands — George was primarily known as a special effects and makeup artist for horror movies.
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