Written by: Ashtyn at 11:30 pm on January 16, 2010
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Movie Info:
Writer: Rob Zombie
Director: Rob Zombie
Cast: Sheri Moon Zombie, Chase Wright Vanek, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Caroline Williams, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Dayton Callie, Richard Brake, Octavia Spencer, Danielle Harris, Richard Riehle, Margot Kidder
Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony
Release Info:
Original Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 2009
DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
Online Availability: Amazon for $24.99
Donald Pleasence is rolling over in his grave. Dr. Loomis has become a substandard, loser and Malcolm McDowell ruins the vision Pleasence created for the character. Loomis is an important part of the original Halloween franchise. This new Loomis is a big joke. I wasn’t fond of McDowell’s portrayal of Loomis in the Halloween remake, though I will admit I respect the differences in Rob Zombie’s overall vision and new take on his remake of the original. However, McDowell becomes even more intolerable in Halloween II as the sellout, writing books about his experience with Michael and only caring enough to profit off of it, which already adds to a train wreck of a movie that derails any potential Zombie’s vision had.
Pleasence’s Loomis was the audience’s true connection to Michael. He studied this child for so many years and knew what he was capable of. His only goal was to keep the world safe from Michael, whom he knew was filled with pure evil. Nothing could have kept Loomis from doing what he believed was the right thing and that would not involve selling out. The new Loomis is so pathetic nobody in the film even likes him. Zombie said he wanted Loomis to change, but the changes he made ruined the character.
The one thing that makes sense concerning Halloween II is the role reversal between Annie and Laurie. In Zombie’s part one, Laurie is very much like Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie (though no one can top Curtis in the role). This Laurie is a bit prudish, a bookworm, and perhaps even a bit shy. Annie, on the other hand, is a party girl who is somewhat of a slut. In part two, after dealing with their own perspective ordeals (Laurie escapes and believes she murdered Michael Myers and Annie survives the mutilation and attempted murder by Michael Myers), Annie has become the homebody. She is responsible for Laurie and her father, the Sheriff, and she also dresses much more conservatively. Laurie lashes out, has constant nightmares, pushes Annie away, and has become a party animal with her new slutty friends. This makes sense based on what the girls have gone through.
The rest of the story makes no sense. Zombie, apparently, wanted a way to include his wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, in this second installment, so he provides the audience with an outlandish story that has nothing to do with the original films and is filled with ghostly encounters and white horses. Young Michael becomes a parody of the egocentric, unfeeling shell of pure evil incarnate Daeg Faerch created in Zombie’s new vision. Replacing Faerch with the whiny, unconvincing Chase Wright Vanek just added to my displeasure with this film. While Faerch captured the creepiness needed to make Michael a believable psycho-serial killer, Vanek acts the part of the dependent, mama’s boy who is only killing to bring his family back together.
Speaking of killing, despite the mama’s boy attitude of the young Michael, Tyler Mane’s Michael is a ruthless, brutal murderer. Part of what made the original Michael Myers so scary and successful as a horror villain was his matter of fact attitude when killing. Mane’s Michael is brutal and he puts his entire body into it. He is a frenzied killer who will stab someone 137 times in a flurry. The original Michael is methodical and demented, but there is no overkill. His deaths are gross, but he is not frenzied in the process. He knows he’s going to kill you so he just does it. He also uses a knife, while Mane’s Michael will use an axe, a gun, or he’ll choke his victims just for the fun of it. Isn’t Michael more fun when he’s knifing a victim to a door? I think so.
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Ashtyn and Dominick own numerous blogs together, as well as a full-time writing business. In her spare time she is a full-time college student studying History and Psychology. She plans to one day give up her freelance career and be a full-time blogger, novelist, and domestic goddess.
She can be contacted for writing projects, fan mail, or just to say hi. She really is friendlier than we make her look.
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Written by: Dominick at 11:36 pm on January 2, 2010
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Movie Info:
Writer: Diablo Cody
Director: Karyn Kusama
Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, Sal Cortez, Ryan Levine, Juan Riedinger, Kyle Gallner
Rating: R
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Info:
Original Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 2009
DVD Release Date: December 29, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $22.99
I’m just going to get this right out of the way before delving into this review. I thought that Jennifer’s Body was going to absolutely suck. I had extremely low expectations for this film. The people I knew who had seen it in the theater had said it was pretty stupid. Sure, I’m fond of the work I’ve seen of Diablo Cody in the past, but perhaps this was her “Baby’s Day Out” and like the late, great John Hughes, she ran out of good ideas, only to disappear into past Hollywood fame obscurity long before her time was up.
In this mindset, I was disappointed Amanda Seyfried, a young, talented, budding actress, wasted her time on Jennifer’s Body. Still, I thought I’d give the movie a chance for her sake and what a surprise. I actually liked Jennifer’s Body. I didn’t just like it, I thought it was a quirky, fun, dark comedy that had some rather brilliant moments amidst the high school lame-o speak the actors indulge in throughout the film. Cody redeemed herself after my unfounded doubts, and I have newfound appreciation for her warped sense of humor.
Jennifer’s Body is a dark comedy. This means it really is not meant to be scary like a traditional horror flick. As any good comedy should, Jennifer’s Body made me laugh. Some of it was at the ridiculousness of the characters, their speech and the situations they are placed in, but that is the ENTIRE POINT of Jennifer’s Body. It is supposed to be ridiculous. The teenagers use stupid slang, which makes those of us over the age of 21 cringe. That’s the way kids sound to us old folks, so no big deal there.
Megan Fox is given some meaty material she can actually sink her teeth into. Fox admits she’s not used to this kind of acting, and she tried to have fun with it. Well, it seems the girl has a bit of natural talent. Sure, she’s no Robert DeNiro, but he wouldn’t have made a very good Jennifer now would he? Fox was the eye candy in Transformers, but in Jennifer’s Body she has to rely on more than just her svelte figure (though it does play a prominent role in this film, as well) to entertain the audience. I already knew Seyfried could act, so it was no big surprise to see her perform well. Fox and Seyfried had nice chemistry and that is what really helped to make this film work.
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Written by: Ashtyn at 1:56 pm on October 22, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writer: Connor James Delaney
Director: Declan O’Brien
Cast: Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Tamer Hassan, Gil Kolirin, Tom McKay, Christian Contreras, Jake Curran, Chucky Venice, Louise Cliffe, Emma Clifford, Jack Gordon, Borislav Iliev
Rating: R
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: October 20, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $19.99
They just keep getting dumber and dumber. When Wrong Turn was released, I saw it because I think Eliza Dushku is hot. It wasn’t bad as far as horror goes. However, there is a long standing problem with horror movies. The creators think they have a hit on their hands and develop 800 sequels! That would be great if the sequels were any good. I find most sequels are miss with the occasional hit.
For example, Halloween and Halloween 2 are both pretty good, but 2 is a continuation of the story in the original, so it works out. The third film was a bust. Four and five were okay, only because they played off the story in 1 and 2, but the rest of the sequels sucked. I feel the same way with A Nightmare on Elm Street (1 & 3 are good, the rest suck), Friday the 13th (1, 2, and 5 are good, the rest suck), Saw (anything after 3 sucks), The Evil Dead (1 was the best), and pretty much every other horror movie with sequels out there. Wrong Turn is no different.
This series follows the same path the Pulse movies follow. The first one was okay, but making sequels never should have happened. Wrong Turn 2 was bad enough, but taking this pathetic movie series to a third film was just too much. I was done after the first film. Seriously, when your horror movie is going direct to DVD, it is a sign that it is time to quit.
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Ashtyn and Dominick own numerous blogs together, as well as a full-time writing business. In her spare time she is a full-time college student studying History and Psychology. She plans to one day give up her freelance career and be a full-time blogger, novelist, and domestic goddess.
She can be contacted for writing projects, fan mail, or just to say hi. She really is friendlier than we make her look.
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Written by: Ashtyn at 10:10 pm on October 8, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writer: Jack Ketchum
Director: Andrew van den Houten
Cast: Amy Hargreaves, Art Hindle, Tommy Nelson, Ahna Tessler, David Halbard, Erick Kastel, Taylor John Piedmonte
Rating: R
Studio: Lionsgate
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $17.99
I have never read any of Jack Ketchum’s books, but he seems to be highly recommended by the Master of Horror, Stephen King. I’ve heard quite a bit about how graphic, gruesome, yet well written the Ketchum novels are. When I learned that Offspring was written by Ketchum and adapted for the screen by him, I was surprised. I can see why Ketchum is a popular horror writer. However, the story’s interpretation to screen leaves much to be desired.
I have to put most of the fault of Offspring’s failures on the director. The story is not what suffers. I found the story/plot to be downright creepy. If this scenario really happened I’d be quite frightened. The problem was in the execution, especially with the portrayal of the actual offspring. I found them to be oddly portrayed and almost, sickly laughable. I like my cannibals to be scary, not mumbling, awkward, and mindless. These cannibals act like a ridiculous, zombie-like species, except when they’re killed, they stay dead.
The actors for Offspring do an okay job for what they are offered. I didn’t have a problem with the non-cannibal actors. The cannibals wore the makeup and outfits of what I’d expect of savage, people eating, tribal folks. However, their actions, their language (or lack thereof) and their entire mindless, kill mentality turned me off. Movies are never as good as the books, I expect that, but it is the movie that suffers because of the direction these characters were taken in.
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Ashtyn and Dominick own numerous blogs together, as well as a full-time writing business. In her spare time she is a full-time college student studying History and Psychology. She plans to one day give up her freelance career and be a full-time blogger, novelist, and domestic goddess.
She can be contacted for writing projects, fan mail, or just to say hi. She really is friendlier than we make her look.
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Written by: Dominick at 5:49 pm on October 7, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writer: Tom Shankland, Paul Andrew Williams
Director: Tom Shankland
Cast: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley, Hannah Tointon, Raffiella Brooks, Jake Hathaway, William Howes, Eva Sayer
Rating: R
Studio: Lionsgate
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $14.99
While teen screams have the potential to be fun, I don’t feel that the teen horror conventions found in the scream movies have to be followed to make a horror movie effective or worth watching. Every once in a while, it is nice to see an intelligent, teen in a horror movie. That’s exactly what you’ll get from The Children.
The thing I enjoyed about The Children is that the story is creepy enough, it isn’t overly conventional, and there is actually quite a bit of character development. Sure, as in any horror movie, some of the characters make stupid choices, and pay the price for it, but I felt that the choices that were made, stupid or not, made sense for each character’s situation. While I found some characters (especially Chloe and Jonah) exceptionally annoying, I realize that was exactly how they were supposed to act, and therefore, am able to deal with the fact that during most of the movie, I wanted to punch them in the face.
The Children is a direct to DVD release through Sam Raimi’s Ghosthouse Underground horror label. Raimi has picked some fairly freaky films for this year’s release, but thus far, The Children is my favorite. The entire question of whether a parent should or could kill their children is a major theme of this film, and it’s presented in a way that many of the other, evil children movies (i.e. Children of the Damned) fail. The performance of the parents was especially realistic, in my opinion.
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Written by: Ashtyn at 4:19 am on September 26, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writers: Michael Mann, David Mamet, Ted Tally, Steven Zaillian, Thomas Harris
Directors: Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Jonathan Demme
Cast: Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan, Kim Greist, Julianne Moore, Jodie Foster, Joan Allen, Francesca Neri, Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Ray Liotta, Frankie Faison, William Petersen
Rating: R
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment/MGM
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $44.49
I am a huge fan of films involving Hannibal Lecter. I’m also a huge fan of William Petersen, Jodie Foster, Joan Allen, and Anthony Hopkins. That means I was pretty anxious to get my hands on a copy of the Hannibal Lecter Collection. This collection consists of Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. While I had seen Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, as well as Red Dragon (the feature film version of Manhunter), I had never before seen the TV movie, Manhunter. I knew it followed pretty much the same storyline as Red Dragon does, I knew it had an excellent cast, and I had heard only good things about it. This made me very curious about seeing Manhunter.
Out of this set of three movies, the best is Silence of the Lambs. It’s hard to beat the story. In fact, Silence has been one of my favorite movies of all time for years. I can’t discount Manhunter, though. While I enjoyed Red Dragon, I have to say that William Petersen really made Manhunter worth watching. While it was weird to see Brian Cox in the role of Hannibal Lecter, considering I’ve only seen Hopkins play the role prior to watching Manhunter, I don’t think Cox did too bad a job. His Lecter was quite different from the one portrayed by Hopkins. While I find Hopkins is the definitive Lecter, I can’t dislike Cox’s portrayal too much, especially since it is so different from the one by Hopkins.
The only dead weight in this set is Hannibal. The biggest problem is that Jodie Foster isn’t in this. While Julianne Moore took over the role of Clarice Starling, and I generally like Moore, I just can’t see anyone else in the role but Foster. I am of the firm belief that for a sequel to exist, it needs to be a strong extension of the first film and I don’t feel that is what Hannibal offered. It wasn’t just about replacing Foster with Moore. The story just didn’t feel as connected to Silence as I feel it should have. That being said, for what the actors are given to work with, I don’t feel they did a horrible job. It’s rather mediocre, which is expected considering the expectations a sequel has after following a movie like Silence of the Lambs.
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Ashtyn Evans is a writer, advocate, free thinker, and all around cynical person. Always quick to find the negative in anything pop culture, she loves being a part of that which she despises.
Ashtyn and Dominick own numerous blogs together, as well as a full-time writing business. In her spare time she is a full-time college student studying History and Psychology. She plans to one day give up her freelance career and be a full-time blogger, novelist, and domestic goddess.
She can be contacted for writing projects, fan mail, or just to say hi. She really is friendlier than we make her look.
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Written by: Dominick at 1:52 am on September 19, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writer: Stephen King, William Goldman
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis
Rating: R
Studio: MGM
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $15.99
I love the movie Misery. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this movie, but I just can’t seem to get enough of it. Kathy Bates plays the ultimate psycho and does it well. Annie Wilkes scares me. As someone who relies on caregivers for my daily living needs, I can imagine how terrifying it is for someone stuck in a wheelchair to be in the position that Paul Sheldon is in.
When I heard that Misery was coming to Blu-Ray, I was elated. I am starting to get all the movies I own on DVD in Blu-Ray. I like the quality of Blu-Ray better, anyway, which is the entire point of this newer system. The big question that needed to be answered, for me, is whether the quality of the Blu-Ray is better than the quality of the standard DVD, and whether it is worth it to upgrade to the Blu-Ray version.
When it comes to Stephen King books, I’m usually all in. Save for some of the last books he’s written, I’m a huge King fan. It’s fairly easy to see why he’s called the Master of Horror. In the late 70s, 80s and 90s, he owned the genre. I have found the movie adaptations of his works to be hit or miss. I am especially disappointed in the remakes for movies like Carrie. When a King movie is done well, it is awesome. When it isn’t, (Dreamcatcher, for example) the whole movie falls apart. Misery falls in the hit category. In fact, this movie is one of my all time, favorite, Stephen King adaptations.
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Written by: Dominick at 3:01 pm on September 17, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writer: Alan B. McElroy, Turi Meyer
Director: Joe Lynch
Cast: Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins, Texas Battle, Daniella Alonso, Steve Braun, Aleksa Palladino, Matthew Currie Holmes, Crystal Lowe, Ken Kirzinger, Ashlea Earl, Clint Carleton, Rorelee Tio, Jeff Scrutton
Rating: R
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $18.49
Horror sequels usually suffer a fate far worse than that of their film predecessors. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but in this case, it is my job. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End was definitely one of those movies I did not enjoy. I found the original to be decent though not exceptional. Since the original wasn’t so stand out it deserved a sequel, I’m not exactly sure why the powers that be behind this project made one, other than to try to profit off the series.
In the first movie, Wrong Turn, the freaky, genetic mutant, incest loving cannibals are creepy, but it doesn’t take long for them to get old. By the time the action begins in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, I was over the cannibals. Add in the fact that they become ten times more annoying and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is already a miss with me. I was ready for the movie to end with the first viewing of the cannibals, which now includes females. And don’t get me started on the nasty, cannibals/incest sex scene. Seriously, the implications they were sleeping together was gross enough. Seeing it wasn’t gross in a cool horror kind of way. It was flat out disgusting and stupid.
The writer of the script for Wrong Turn 2: Dead End didn’t do himself any favors. I blame the director for the annoying aspects added to the cannibals and their performances, but I blame the writer for character development (or lack thereof) and writing one helluva dumb story. The characters are atrocious. I feel absolutely no sympathy for any of them. All of them, on both sides, deserved to die, except for maybe Henry Rollins’ character, though, he too, was annoying in his own way. I ask for so little in horror movies these days, but a horror movie cannot fit true horror convention if it has not one character worth sympathizing with…and that is the first place Wrong Turn 2: Dead End fails.
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Written by: Dominick at 3:13 am on September 15, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writer: Alan B. McElroy
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers, Lindy Booth, Julian Richings, Garry Robbins, Ted Clark, Yvonne Gaudry, Joel Harris
Rating: R
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $17.99
Every horror movie should have a hot heroine. That’s supposed to be a horror convention, but I’ve seen some real woofers in my day. Not so with Wrong Turn. Eliza Dushku is sizzlin’ hot in this movie. Sure, this definitely doesn’t stretch her skills as an actress, but this had to be a fun little film for her to make. It isn’t one of those horror movies that is going to hurt her career, but at the same time, making this movie didn’t do her any favors.
As far as horror movies go, this is your typical hillbilly cannibal story. Yes, the cannibals are kind of weird, but I found them far more annoying in the sequel to this movie. In this one, they were pretty creepy. It made me want to avoid the backwoods of Kentucky or West Virginia just in case there were some redneck cannibals in the back woods of the state. I don’t mean to single these states out, but I’m pretty sure, somewhere in one of the movies, it is mentioned that this takes place on the backwoods of West Virginia.
The acting, for the most part, was pretty good. It wasn’t standout, but I definitely do not expect an Oscar type of performance in a horror movie such as Wrong Turn. The most annoying character had to be Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui). It’s not that Chriqui’s acting was bad (she was much better in Zohan), but her character was just downright stupid. The stupid characters get on my nerves quite easily in horror movies. Of course, this is part of the horror convention. There has to be at least one character you just hope gets it. For this movie, that character is Carly.
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Written by: Ashtyn at 10:54 pm on August 24, 2009
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Movie Info:
Writers: Stephen King, George Goldsmith
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Cast: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains, Robby Kiger, AnneMarie McEvoy, Julie Maddalena, Jonas Marlowe, John Philbin
Rating: R
Studio: Anchor Bay/Starz
Release Info:
DVD Release Date: August 25, 2009
Online Availability: Amazon for $12.99
Late 70s and 80s horror films are some of the best horror films that have ever been made. Perhaps I can say that because I am partial, having been born in the late 70s and raised in the 80s. Still, when I am looking for something to scare me or to give me a good laugh, I always go back to my favorite 80s scare flicks. These are movies I’ve seen hundreds of times. Movies like Child’s Play, A Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Bad Dreams, and of course Children of the Corn. These are movies that, like most horror, you have to suspend your belief in reality to enjoy. However, if you are willing to do so, in most cases, it is worth the trouble.
I’ve loved Children of the Corn since my first viewing as a child. These days I have found that it’s more of a cult favorite in terms of its fans. People either love this movie or they hate it. Most critics hate it. I love it. In fact, I love everything about it, right down to the horribly cheesy effects at the end (you know what I mean if you’ve seen this). Written by Stephen King when he was the master of all things psychotic, CotC is a story unlike most others. There is something interesting about a bunch of religion obsessed kids that worship the god of corn.
Along with the inventive storyline the acting pushes the story along nicely. The main actors (though there are technically quite a few) include John Franklin, Courtney Gains, Linda Hamilton, and Peter Horton. While Hamilton and Horton work well as the somewhat concerned adults, the real stars here are the kids. Franklin plays the part of the more than creepy cult leader. His raspy voice and his controlling ways all help to build the main character. However, it is never Franklin’s character that becomes truly frightening (even though that hat he wears is pretty scary). Instead, it is Gains’ character that stands out as the creepy, overindulgent murderer that you hope never comes to your town. Despite it being one of his first roles, Courtney Gains showed us that he has the making of a cult leader’s henchman. Even now, years after this movie was made and the cast had all moved on, “Outlander” is still used in reference to the lanky red-headed boy sent to do the bidding of his leader.
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Ashtyn and Dominick own numerous blogs together, as well as a full-time writing business. In her spare time she is a full-time college student studying History and Psychology. She plans to one day give up her freelance career and be a full-time blogger, novelist, and domestic goddess.
She can be contacted for writing projects, fan mail, or just to say hi. She really is friendlier than we make her look.
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