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    Halloween Week 2015

    Here at 4:3 we’ve decided to celebrate Halloween with a week-long celebration of scary cinema, whether it be firmly in the horror genre or not. We’ll be running interesting feature pieces, a You Have to See… love letter to a certain horror film celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and re-posting reviews of some of our favourite horror films in recent memory.

    This all started a week ago, when a group of our editors entered an abandoned Video Ezy somewhere in Western Sydney. In that darkened space the faded Ratatouille poster near the entrance looked sinister, as if the only cooking to be done was that of human flesh. We moved deeper into the heart of the store, hoping without hope that there would be some unopened fairly floss bags in a bin somewhere, when suddenly we came upon a hooded figure brandishing a life-size cut-out of Ben Affleck (what movie it was promoting we shall never know). His beady red eyes from within the cavernous hoodie glared at us and when he spoke it sounded like the voice warping trick they do on A Current Affair to protect the identities of people complaining about local council workers.

    “It is I,” he said. “The Ghost of Late Fees Past.”

    We recoiled in horror. One of the editors let out a short squeal. He will remain nameless.1 The Ghost pulled from the bit of the hoodie where your arms go when its cold, you know, the large pocket thing in the middle, a video tape. There was masking tape on the video tape and on that tape (the masking tape) there was a message. It said that those who watch the tape would be bound to run Halloween-related content the following week on the website they run. We were shocked by its specificity.

    By the time we had looked up, the Ghost was gone. We pulled out our mobiles and began ringing around until we could find a pub with a VHS player. There were a few, but only one had a schnitty special that night. When we arrived there we put the tape in their machine, crowded around the square screen, and saw this:

    Halloween Week 2015 – Features

    Selected Reviews

    It Follows

    Selected Interviews

    L is for Libido
    The ABCs of Death

    Selected Features