By Alec Escarcega Big Bear, California, is usually a place for tourists to enjoy many activities such as Snowboarding/Skiing, exploring the village, enjoying water sports on the lake, Oktoberfest, or even camping during the seasons. To most, it’s exactly that, but to young filmmakers, it is an area of possibility regarding location. A group of CSU students decided Big Bear was the perfect backdrop for a horror film. I found them through a listing online looking for funding for the film and asked if I could join the crew as a BTS photographer/videographer to which they agreed, and I was on my way. Despite sounding like the beginning of a horror story considering the … [Read more...] about CSU students head to the mountains to shoot a horror film
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Old VHS curse goes viral
By Robert Klimper |Student Writer| Moviegoers will once again fear the ring of a phone with the third new movie "Rings", now playing in theaters. The newest addition to "The Ring" series of movies, despite being apart of the franchise one does not need to worry about seeing the previous films to understand the premise. "Rings" does have aspects of the story from the previous two movies, but explains it well enough for new audience. According to the storyline, after one watches a cursed VHS tape, they have seven days left to live until the ghost girl Samara comes and takes their life. The only way to avoid the fate of the seven day time limit is to make a copy of the film and … [Read more...] about Old VHS curse goes viral
Ouija movie keeps it cheesy
By Chelsea Faler |Staff Writer| The new horror film “Oija,” released on Oct. 24, consisted mostly of scary moments already seen in the trailer or were just cheesy and typical. I had very high expectations for this film and was ready to be shivering from fear but I found myself giggling instead at some of the “scary” scenes. For instance, most of the occurrences that made you jump were things like doors closing by themselves, ghosts appearing out of thin air, and general loud creepy sounds. To clarify, this was not a terrible production and I most definitely have seen more poorly made scary movies but I still felt somewhat of a letdown. The storyline is decent, based around the … [Read more...] about Ouija movie keeps it cheesy