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Day: October 31, 2021

A Gallery of Horror

Posted on October 31, 2021October 29, 2021 by rebeccadeniston

For someone who's not really a fan of horror films, I've somehow managed to review quite a few of them. I don't know how it happened, but it just happened, and quite honestly, I'm not too broken up about it. It's an interesting genre. However, I will not, under any circumstances, review slashers. As the … Continue reading A Gallery of Horror

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