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The 2012 installment of the Dark Mirror horror film festival will take place on Saturday, October 20. Screenings will include In the Mouth of Madness, 28 Days Later, and Take Shelter, with a panel discussion on the theme of "Horror and Apocalypse" taking place before the final film and featuring Matt Cardin (author on horror and religion), Dr. James Kendrick (Baylor University professor of film and digital media), Dr. J. Gordon Melton (Distinguished Professor of American Religions at Baylor University), and Joe McKinney (zombie/crime/thriller novelist and sargeant with the San Antonio Police Department). Visit our Film Screenings page and Venue page for full details about schedule and location.
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The Dark Mirror panel: Lee Thomas
Tweet After the Dark Mirror film showing on October 30, there will be a public discussion by a panel of horror and communication experts. One of them will be horror author Lee Thomas. Lee is the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Stained, Damage, and The Dust of Wonderland, and [...]
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Tagged as: horror fiction, lee thomas, The Dark Mirror panel
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Official flyer for The Dark Mirror series
Tweet Here’s the flyer for the film series, which you’ll soon start seeing around town if you live in or near Waco, Texas, or around campus if you attend or work at McLennan Community College or Baylor University. Click to see an enlarged view. And feel free to pass it on and alert your friends!
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Tagged as: baylor university, horror films, mclennan community college
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Who directed POLTERGEIST, Spielberg or Hooper?
Tweet For 30 years the rumor has persisted that it wasn’t really Tobe Hooper but Steven Spielberg who directed 1982′s Poltergeist. Now Hooper has tried to set the record straight. Last month he told an audience at FrightFest 2010 in London that the rumor of Spielberg’s directorial ventriloquist act got started because of bad luck, [...]
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Tagged as: ghosts, poltergiest, steven spielberg, tobe hooper
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Welcome to TheDarkMirror.net
Tweet TheDarkMirror.net is the web presence for Waco’s horror film festival of the same name. The first Dark Mirror series will launch in October 2010 with a trio of films shown at the atmospheric Bosque River Stage on the campus of McLennan Community College. Beginning at 6 p.m. on three weekends in October — Saturday [...]
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Tagged as: baylor university, bosque river stage, horror films, james kendrick, matt cardin, mclennan community college, society
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