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October 28, 2010

Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas

By Derek Boeckelmann

A group of sorority sisters receives threatening calls from a mysterious caller on Christmas Eve in Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas.” Recognized by many as the first slasher film (predating John Carpenter’s “Hallo...

October 28, 2010

William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist

By Damion Damaske

This choice seems like a cliché, I know. But this film, about a little girl who gets possessed by the devil, is the perfect horror film. You see, when horror deals with the supernatural, it only really works if the whol...

October 28, 2010

Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell

By Matthew Javidi, Artsweek Editor

Sam Raimi’s first true horror movie since directing the “Spider Man” trilogy tells the story of an ambitious bank worker who gets cursed by an angry customer. Filled with the typical cheese and B-movie gore of Raim...

October 28, 2010

Dario Argento’s “Suspiria

By Derek Boeckelmann, Artsweek Editor

An American exchange student at a ballet school in Italy encounters a coven of witches in Dario Argento’s “Suspiria.” While it isn’t necessarily scary, “Suspiria” is certainly one of the creepiest films I’v...

October 28, 2010

6.66 Scary Movies…Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

By Fabian Garcia

I’m referring to the 1974 version, the original, but any version of the movie is terrifying nonetheless. Here’s the premise: a group of five young adults on a road trip get stranded on the property of hillbilly canni...

October 28, 2010

Costume Quest Hits Your Game System

By Zach Edwin

Although Costume Quest lacks length and challenge — it more than makes up for it, with the charm, wit and humor of a Pixar movie.

October 28, 2010

Taylor Swift Drops Her Latest Album

By Lucas Villa

Country songstress Taylor Swift reports on the past two years of her life on her third studio album, Speak Now.

October 28, 2010

John Lithgow Tells His Favorite Stories

By Demi Anter

Actor John Lithgow brought his critically acclaimed show, “Stories by Heart,” to the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara last Monday night as part of this year’s Arts & Lectures series.

October 28, 2010

Rocky Horror: Just As Horrible as Ever

By Matthew Javidi

When a film has been in theaters for over three decades, you would expect that film to be either culturally significant, so bad that it’s just that fun to watch or the best damn movie of all time.

October 28, 2010

New Release: Paranormal Activity 2

By Artsweek Editor, Derek Boeckelmann

Like “The Blair Witch Project” ten years before it, Paranormal Activity, a low-budget, independent horror film marketed under the guise of a documentary project, achieved the near-impossible last year by becoming an ...

October 28, 2010

Party Creepy: 5 Scary Dubstep Tracks

By Rowan Byers

It’s old news to say that dubstep is big in I.V. Unfortunately I don’t hear a whole lot of variety in what I hear out there in the streets.

October 21, 2010

Jacakss 3D: The Avatar of the Third Dimension

By Rowan Byers

I don’t think anybody needs me to explain to them what “Jackass” is about. If you don’t know what it is, or do know and are offended that people actually pay money to watch that crap, put down your Nexus and pay ...

October 21, 2010

Sufjan Stevens Branches Out With Age of Adz

By Philippe Lazaro

One of music’s most inventive yet elusive artists breaks his five years of silence with a very unexpected sound.

October 21, 2010

Shakira’s Hips Continue To Tell Truth on Latest Album

By Lucas Villa

Colombian singer Shakira ditches the electro-pop edge of last year’s She Wolf and returns to her Latin roots on Sale el Sol (The Sun Comes Out).

October 21, 2010

Sleigh Bells Jingle All the Way to SOhO

By Artsweek Editor

Sleigh Bells slid down SOhO’s chimney last Monday, Oct. 18 and delivered a 30 minute, 29 second sonic dance assault to the packed house.

October 14, 2010

“No Ordinary Family”

By Damion Damaske

The superhero is so ingrained in our public consciousness that any variation on it has about as much potential for originality as a sorority tank top.