What did you read this year?
Corey’s
average rating for
2024
3.8
3.8
A heartfelt and surprising slice of Canadian horror that understands it's the characters that make a haunted house truly frightening. Gleefully twisting the oft-employed conceit inside-out, Wilmot's graceful tale is at once a dark ode to past literary haunted houses and an expert updating of their many tropes. Through vivid characters and unpredictable side-trips, Wilmot achieves a remarkably affecting and suitably scary coming-of-age story that
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After filmmakers stretched the Hellraiser concept to the breaking point, Barker revisits the his sadomasochistic demon, rescuing him from his current cinematic status as a poor man’s Fred Krueger. It seems the cenobite has been busy, breaking into our world to slay any and all magicians he can find. Pitted against him is another Barker character, Harry D’Amour, the world-weary detective continually at war with the supernatural forces that surroun
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