By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor The Steven Spielberg-produced and Joe Dante-directed film “Gremlins” is an unconventional Christmas movie. So unconventional, in fact, that most people do not realize it is meant to be a Christmas movie at all. The film revolves around an early Christmas gift from inventor Rand Peltzer to his son, Billy.
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By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor @JordanRae017 Charles Dickens’ story “A Christmas Carol” has been a part of the holiday celebration in one form or another for nearly 200 years now. It tells the story of stingy, old curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge being visited by spirits on Christmas Eve. They show him the error of his
By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor Guillermo del Toro’s latest film “Crimson Peak” has been receiving a lot of criticism for not being scary. With a mid-October release date and a trailer that predominantly features unexplained bumps in the night and bloody, skeletal ghosts, fans and critics alike were expecting a horror movie. The problem
By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor @JordanRae017 “Hocus Pocus” is the greatest movie of all time. OK, maybe not. But it is one the first movies that made me fall in love with film. It is definitely the best movie Sarah Jessica Parker has ever made. This 1993 live-action Disney movie is the gold standard
By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor @JordanRae017 Niles Scream Park, an autumnal staple in the Michiana area, is known across the Midwest for its tricks and locally for its treats. It is no secret that the isolated plot of land off Mayflower Road is the place to go for Halloween thrills. Niles Scream Park appears on
By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor @JordanRae017 Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of “Psycho” could have been an interesting experiment. As someone who has a great love of film and the craft of filmmaking, I was excited to learn as I watched it that this remake was a shot-by-shot, line-by-line remake of the original. The
By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Editor @JordanRae017 Readers of The Preface who followed my column last year are well aware of my love for weird stuff. Last October, I reviewed a different horror movie every week. Some were just too unbelievably bad, some scarred me for life but I watched them because my lovely readers took
By: JORDAN RAE LUCAS Managing Editor @JordanRae017 While our readers were sunning and sleeping this summer, the editors of The Preface have been hard at work bringing our paper into the 21st Century. Primarily we needed a facelift but we also wanted to make The Preface more student-focused and accessible by creating the first-ever Preface
