For the last fourteen years, the horror genre has been watered-down into PG-13 cliched flicks and badly-written remakes. The over the top gory movies are a thing of the past, well at least in the theaters as a few decent horror films have found their way straight-to-DVD/Blu-ray over the years including the Wrong Turn franchise.

Remember Wrong Turn?

Wrong Turn was a backwoods horror film that was released to theaters in 2003. It was directed by Rob Schmidt and starred Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Eliza Dushku. The plot centered on a group of travelers stranded in the back roads of West Virginia, where they are being hunted by three inbred disfigured cannibal brothers. Despite receiving mixed reviews the film did alright at the box-office, taking in over $28 million on a $12 million budget.

The film was almost forgotten about by horror fans until the sequel Wrong Turn 2: Dead End went straight-to-DVD & Blu-ray in 2007. The sequel centered on a survival reality game show being filmed in a remote area of West Virginia where Three-Fingers and his inbred cannibal family live. Of course one by one the cast and crew are killed off in a gory fashion. Filmed on the small budget of $4, the sequel raked in $9 million dollars in rental and video sales. It also received positive reviews from both critics and horror fans.

Wrong Turn 2

Two years later, Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead was released to DVD and Blu-ray. This time Declan O'Brien came aboard to direct (along with the next two sequels as well), which was considered a bad move by horror fans as the film was horribly written and filmed. The plot involved a group of prisoners escaping a prison bus and takes a few hostages while escaping in the West Virginia woods, but Three-Fingers happens to be in the area, so you know what happens next.

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Pet Sematary by Stephen King is the scariest book I have ever read and the movie is just as freaky.

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Goosebumps Most Wanted: Special Edition #2
The 12 Screams of Christmas
by R.L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastics
Pub. Date: September 30, 2013
Retail: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0545627771
Pages: 192
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Its hard to believe that it has been over 22 years since the first Goosebumps by R.L. Stine was published. The original series ended in 1997 with a total of 62 books, but the franchise continued with Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps and Tales to Give You Goosebumps. A popular television series of the same name aired in the middle '90s. R.L. Stine launched a brand new series Goosebumps Horrorland in 2008, followed by Goosebumps Hall Of Horrors and Goosebumps Most Wanted.

Out now in bookstores is the newest installment Goosebumps Most Wanted: Special Edition #2: The 12 Screams of Christmas. The story centers on Kate Welles, a sixth-grader with a sixth sense. Yes, she can see the dead, well, she can ghosts. Her classmates call her Ghost Girl because of her "gift," but nobody really believes that she actually see the dead.

Her class is having a holiday play this year called "The 12 Screams Of Christmas." It is written and directed by the music teacher Mr. Piccolo (his students call him Mr. P). Kate wants to land a great role in the play, but her frenemy, Courtney, will do anything to steal the part from her.

Sleepy Hollow: Children Of The Revolution
by Keith R. A. DeCandido
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pub. Date: September 30, 2014
ISBN: 978-0553419009
ASIN: 978-0553419009
Pages: 304
Buy Links: Paperback, Kindle

Review:

The television series Sleepy Hollow was a surprise hit last year on FOX, which just started its second season a few weeks ago. Similar to other fantasy television shows, Sleepy Hollow has entered into the world of novelizations with last month's release of Sleepy Hollow: Children Of The Revolution by Keith R. A. DeCandido, an author who has written a novelization of from almost every popular science-fiction and fantasy franchises.

Sleepy Hollow is based on the classic short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and centers on Ichabod Crane (played by Tom Mison) waking up from his grave in our time and of course the Headless Horseman, whom is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, comes back from the dead too. Crane teams up with Lt. Grace Abigail "Abbie" Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) of the Sleepy Hollow Police Department to defeat the rising demons and the upcoming apocalypse. He is still searching for his long-lost wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter), who is a witch that is stuck between the living and the dead.

Children Of The Revolution takes place between the season one episodes "The Golem" and "The Vessel." Ichabod Crane is still adjusting to living in the twenty-first century; minding his own business while walking in the park that is until he receives a new vision from his wife, Katrina, telling him to seek out the Congressional Cross that he received over two-hundred years ago.

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I vividly remember when I was around five-years-old (prior to starting kindergarten) when my parents and me lived in an old two-story house in the country. I was looking at a Berenstain Bears book (I don't think I knew how to read a complete book yet) in my bedroom when suddenly a shadowy image of a little girl walked across the room, opened up the cabinet door and began tossing my stuffed toys towards me. I grabbed my book and ran downstairs screaming. I don't recall what happened afterwards, but I remember my parents moving the beds to the family room and we slept in there until we eventually moved into town. Now every time I pick up a Berenstain Bears book, I think about the little ghost girl playing with my toys. 

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