THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

Halloween

  • By October 29, 2012

    Most students have completed their midterms and are looking for a reprieve before the last push to final exams. That reprieve is Halloween, a time for partying and of course a time of spine-tingling tales and eerie creatures. If you’re not in the mood for Halloween and want to get into it, then here are four horror movies that will test your backbone.

  • Spooky History 101: the origins of Halloween

    By October 29, 2012

    We love the dark, dangerous and foreboding mysteries of the dead. We love to scare ourselves, dress up as spiritual pranksters and to stretch the limits of what we can do, how we are seen and what we can get away with. We revel in the malicious, the evil and the mysterious.

  • Gothic horror invades your television

    By October 31, 2011

    I always get excited for the new fall season of television on cable networks like HBO, Showtime, FX and AMC. This fall there are new arrivals like Showtime’s Homeland, Starz’s Boss and AMC’s forthcoming Hell on Wheels as well as subsequent seasons of quality television programs like Boardwalk Empire, Dexter and The Walking Dead. However, the one show that got me really excited was FX’s American Horror Story.

  • What’s so scary about scary movies?

    By October 31, 2011

    I used to be terrified by horror movies until I realized there’s nothing scary about them. Honestly, when is the last time you were chased by an axe-wielding maniac to the sounds of violins and cellos? Final exams, terminal illnesses and dieing alone – now these are legitimate fears.

  • Demons and night-vision: round three

    By October 31, 2011

    Third time doesn’t break the charm in this third entry and prequel to the popular horror franchise.

    It’s unheard of for second films in horror franchises to be good, let alone third entries, and yet the three films in the Paranormal Activity series are consistently good.

  • The five costumes you will see tonight, plus three last-minute ideas you could consider for yourself

    By October 31, 2011

    Every year people of all ages put their creativity to the test around Halloween. Children revel in the opportunity to dress up and adults find themselves coming up with awesome partner costumes to rope their unwilling significant others into.

    Sadly, Halloween also reveals the darker sides of our creativity.

  • The evolution of horror on film: a brief history of Hollywood’s everlasting love affair with scary movies

    By October 31, 2011

    People have had a love affair with all things spooky and perverse for centuries. For as long as there has been language, people have been whispering unsettling fables to make each other’s skin crawl. For as long as there have been doors, people have been jumping out from behind them with the intent to startle. But more interesting than our fascination with terrifying our nearest and dearest friends is our preoccupation with scaring ourselves.

  • An exercise in torture: enduring all seven Saw movies in anticipation of Halloween

    By October 28, 2011

    I love horror movies of all kinds. The feeling I get from being scared, that adrenaline rush — I live for it. However, the Saw horror movies don’t come off as particularly scary. I had only seen the first two movies and I always enjoyed the premise behind Saw, so I felt it was time to finish the journey.

    In honour of Halloween, the following are my immediate reactions to all seven Saw movies, written to the movies themselves.