by Andrew E. Konietzky

October is my favorite month because locked in the gooey insides is my favorite holiday, Halloween. Before I head off to some of the cool seasonal events around Florida, I have put together a Top 10 List of Horror Films* for the many genre fans out there.

There are so many amazing films that it’s hard to narrow them down to a mere handful, and impossible to put them into some kind of order. And one person’s idea of a great horror film will likely differ from others. Someone who enjoys the gory and violent side of horror might be inclined to watch films like Saw, Cabin Fever, or Last House on the Left, while those are more into the psychological side of things might prefer The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, or The Exorcist. So first, I must post a small disclaimer: We all have our fears, scares, and dark corners, but here are 10 of my personal favorite dark, sticky, blood-soaked treats.

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by Ryan Stewart

“Are we the monsters?”
– Gareth Edwards

David Spade once had a stand-up bit about how audiences shouldn’t have to cut a movie slack for having a low budget, since ticket prices are all the same. Monsters, a new indie sci-fi film made for $15,000 – less than Kevin Smith’s Clerks – passes the high-expectations test with flying colors.

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Cheri Suicide in Longing

• INTO: Shoes, booze, boys with tattoos.
• NOT INTO: Haters.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Good metal shows.
• MAKES ME SAD: Hunting 🙁
• HOBBIES: Skateboarding.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My iPhone, my dog, skateboard, smokes, mascara.

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by Damon Martin

Alone in the Universe? Still Not Sure

A few weeks ago, scientists discovered what was thought to be a habitable planet called Gliese 581-g, which had all the characteristics of a world that could create and contain life as we know it on Earth anyways. The “Goldilocks” planet was found to be in a zone not too close to its sun (ie. not too hot) and not too far away (ie. too cold), in the sweet spot in between where an atmosphere could form and life could grow.

Not so fast.

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by Sash Suicide

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By Erin Broadley

“Everything in life is fear based”
– Nikki Sixx

It’s December 25th 1986, and Nikki Sixx is alone in his mansion, crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, scribbling in his diary about watching his “holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon.” He writes, “Merry Christmas…it’s just you and me, diary. Welcome to my life.”

This is just one scene from a particularly harrowing chapter in Motley Crue bassist and founder Nikki Sixx’s new memoir “The Heroin Diaries” — a collection of riveting entries from his personal journals spanning one year from 1986 to 1987, a year he considers the height of his downward spiral into drug addiction. It’s a story about drugs, depression, and the train-wreck of self-destruction — but ultimately it’s one man’s story about survival told with unflinching and unapologetic honesty.

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Silencia Suicide in The Other

• INTO: Loud Music, wearing too much black, vegan cookies, religious iconography, sarcasm, impeccable wit, used book stores, socialist feminism, spontaneity, innocence, love.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Gay men, handwritten letters, black coffee, New York, Portland, Kubrick, Borges. Sioux, a good sense of humor, grandparents, intelligence.
• MAKES ME SAD: Conservative politics, people who force their views on others, how necessary money is sometimes, “text” typing in e-mail/online messages – scratch that – “text” typing in general (yes, even in text messages), when people refer to tattoos as “ink” or “tatts.”
• HOBBIES: Lots of things that end with “ing.”.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Paper, black ink pen, background noise, my brain, my heart (all the other organs aren’t as important).

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