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Justin George | Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Halloween Essentials is a weekly column in the month of October by Scene Writer (and Resident Spooky Boi) Justin George. Celebrate the season with his horror movie recs. We’re another week closer to Halloween, which means seven more film recommendations! This week’s theme is monsters, which includes mad scientists’ creations, blood-sucking freaks and unnatural creatures. “What
Uyen Le, Chris Russo, Spencer Kelly and Christina Cefalu | Monday, October 11, 2021
As Halloween approaches, pumpkins are carved, costumes are crafted and ghost stories are circulated. October also always brings an opportunity to explore the tri-campus community’s haunted grounds, with the ghost of Washington Hall and the spirits of Saint Mary’s documented in past autumn editions. This year, our team shifted to hunting monsters. And interestingly, so
Justin George | Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Halloween Essentials is a weekly column in the month of October by Scene Writer (and Resident Spooky Boi) Justin George. Celebrate the season with his horror movie recs. It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Spooky Season™, and nothing screams Spooky Season quite like a horror film. For this week’s theme, I’ve chosen a subgenre
JP Spoonmore | Wednesday, September 15, 2021
From start to finish, James Wan’s new film “Malignant” pushes further into insanity through textbook scares and exemplary body horror. With great reveals, a bizarrely bombastic score and creepy action-set-pieces, this film achieves what every 90s horror flick wished it could be. Even the most absurd feels par for the course in its comically double-downed
Evan McKenna and Jim Moster | Friday, October 30, 2020
In October of last year, the From the Archives team covered the story of the ghost of Washington Hall, arguably the most well-known supernatural story stemming from the tri-campus community. But while Notre Dame’s supernatural claim to fame is a Travel Channel feature of its most prominent ghost, Saint Mary’s bests the University with its
Colleen Fischer | Friday, October 30, 2020
Last year, the Notre Dame music scene was defined by sweaty, damp basements and crowded backyards — bodies slammed together in spontaneous mosh pits as students blared rock, indie and punk music from their instruments. As students came back under new circumstances this semester, they wanted to recreate this student-centered space in a safe way.
Dasha Kudriavtseva | Thursday, October 29, 2020
The Snite Museum of Art will open its doors at 6 p.m. Thursday to welcome the public for a night of Halloween fun and engagement with the artworks that the museum has to offer. Registration is not required to receive a screen printed t-shirt and partake in the festivities. The Snite Fright is organized by
Sophia Michetti | Thursday, October 22, 2020
Slapstick comedy is hard to pull off. With too many characters or a joke that pushes it a bit too far, the entire movie can be thrown off balance if a writer relies too heavily on physical comedy. Unfortunately, Adam Sandler’s Netflix Halloween flick “Hubie Halloween” flops for this very reason. There is hardly any
Jimmy Ward | Thursday, October 22, 2020
Halloween is right around the corner and it is not getting enough attention this year. To give Halloween some of it’s due credit, I will be ranking the best candies you can get when trick-or-treating. 5. Tootsie Fruit Rolls You always ended up with a few dozen of these flavored Tootsie Rolls and had no
Ryan Israel, Jim Moster and Nick Brigati | Wednesday, October 21, 2020
There are 10 days until Halloween, and Scene is here to provide you with three essential horror films to watch during spooky season! “Hereditary” By Ryan Israel, Scene Editor Since its release just over two years ago, “Hereditary” has entered nearly every conversation on the genre of horror. If you mention you’re a fan of