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Imaginary friends... everybody knows them. Everybody’s heard of them. Everybody knows somebody who had them. And honestly, imaginary friends go back way further than people think. Psychologists were studying imaginary companions back in the 1890s, and even before that, adults throughout history had their own versions: guardian angels, household gods, muses whispering in their ears. These weren’t “imaginary friends” in the modern sense, but they filled the same role, to provid

It’s no secret that horror is my favorite genre. I am obsessed with horror films. They are by far my favorite kind of movies ever since I was a very, very small child. October is my favorite month of the year, and Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, and I love the fact that everyone really loves to watch horror movies during the month of October, especially as we get closer to Halloween. So, as a celebration of Halloween (my favorite time of year, my favorite holida

With the release of the latest Conjuring  movie: The Conjuring: Last Rites , I thought I’d sit down and bang out a little article, a little essay, about one of my favorite weird corners of horror cinema: those movies that are actually based on true incidents. True stories. Real-life events. And sometimes that’s really hard to believe, because when you watch these movies, they’re so over the top, so insane, so terrifying, you’d never in a million years think, “Oh yeah, that to

In honor of the latest Jurassic World  installment ( Rebirth , of course—because branding), it would’ve been too easy to jump into a list of badass movie dinosaurs: your T-Rexes, your Raptors, your stop-motion Harryhausen marvels. And I will get to that—hell, send me your favorite dino flicks at nick@nickdigilio.com , and let’s do that list. But first, I need to talk about Dinosaurs . No, not the ones that chase screaming scientists in khaki shorts. I’m talking about the 199

Carl Reiner on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The Glory Days of Late Night. I took this picture of my TV, on my couch, of course. I have been watching television talk shows for as far back as I can remember, particularly the late night shows. When I was a kid, I watched "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" pretty much every night (my parents were NOT strict with me, at all...my dad took me to the theater to see "The Exorcist" when I was 8...so, yeah) and continued to w