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Noun
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Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.—
Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
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When Thomas is dispatched to Transylvania to help Orlok with a real estate transaction, a chain of events is set in motion to help the vampire pursue his horrifying union with Ellen.—
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Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another.—
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer launched in 1997 and ultimately ran for seven seasons, telling the story of its titular hero, a young woman who must fight vampires, demons, and other evil forces while making her way through high school.—
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Eliot beforehand – and the nightmarish inner gorge is a spiffy mix of nature run amok plus terrifying ghouls that would give Swamp Thing the willies.—
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Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.—
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The film treats Ryder’s Beth as the evil hag witch who the virginal hard worker Nina has to beat to achieve her dreams, and Ryder plays that role with relish and gusto.—
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Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.—
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Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.—
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That includes, but is not limited to...actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.—
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The computer daemon operates in a similar manner, continuously working behind the scenes to keep processes going and to address service requests.—
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Yet in their original form gremlins are alive and well, living under new names—daemons, worms, virtual pets.—
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This meaning is visualized in Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, which shows a woman sleeping peacefully on a couch while a nauseating monster—an incubus—sits portentously on her abdomen, unbeknownst to her.—
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As Tommy’s experiences in the tunnels of France mark a continued incubus for his character, with visions of being pulled into the mud, the sounding of the bell coincides with his own inner peace.—
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Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl.—
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But read two more and the skeptical imp within you awakens.—
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“Lamia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamia. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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