By Zach Bedair Being observant in today’s pop culture, it is easy to spot a particular trend in almost everything that is worth talking about. From television shows, movies, books, now even podcasts, this moving genre phenomenon has a lot of people hooked. Any guesses? It involves one type of crime: murder. Where does this […]
Raider Reel Presents: Halloween Short Films
October 31, 2016 by
Throughout this semester, many Texas Tech University student filmmakers have been busy producing short films for the first Raider Reel Presents competition. The horror or thriller-themed short films had to be between two and five minutes in length and were judged by Texas Tech professors. Five of the submitted films will be sent to film festivals as one […]
Short Film: Night of the Deadly Puppet
September 15, 2016 by
What started out as a Snapchat series starring a puppet is now a short film featured in an international film festival. Ricardo Cortez, a senior electronic media and communications major, came up with the idea for “Night of the Deadly Puppet” over the summer after making Snapchats featuring his childhood toy, Roger. Starring his little brother, […]
Haunted Lubbock
October 30, 2015 by
By Nicole Crites, RaShayla Daniels, Alyssa Herzog and Maddy McCarty In Lubbock, when there’s something strange is your neighborhood… call Anita and Billy Fisher, a couple dedicated to investigating paranormal activity. Anita Fisher, president of the Lubbock Ghost Investigation Society, calls herself a “discerner of spirits” (or medium), and said she was born with the […]
Old School Scares Still Cause Shivers
October 23, 2013 by
It’s October and we all know what that means: colorful trees, football in full swing, and a candy corn supply that never seems to run out. Oh, yeah, and scary movies! This is that time of the year when it is not just socially acceptable to scream in a darkened movie theatre or living room, it’s expected. […]
Movie Review- Insidious: Chapter 2
September 30, 2013 by
A family begins to notice strange occurrences throughout their house. At first the happenings are innocent, like furniture moving around or books getting knocked off of shelves, but soon the phenomena becomes more and more threatening. The danger culminates into one of the family’s children being dragged into another world with the spirits of the […]
