Dorkgasm Gonzo Is God

            Sometime during the spring ’06 semester at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside, the James Zehren sculpture “A Game of War” was removed for repairs. The pedestal it stood upon remained empty until October 31, 2007. That day, Andrew Hendricks, a senior Art Major, performed a piece he called “In God I Will Trust”. Hendricks’ piece combined the artistic esthetic of Trent Reznor with ritual magik and the anger felt by a nation towards itself.

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Why Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead Marks a New Era in American Horror Cinema

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Michael C. Riedlinger

            Through the last two decades of the twentieth century, horror filmmakers seemed to create only those works that fit a certain stereotype.  These films justified the detractors of the genre who claimed that they consisted only of simple clichés, and audiences were treated to sequel after sequel and rip-offs of rip-offs.  The former masters of the horror genre, like Wes Craven and John Carpenter, tried different strategies to cope with this decline in innovation and meaning to varying effects.