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IT: Welcome to Derry Halloween Special Review – Maturin Revealed

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SERPENTORSLAIR.COM | HORROR & TELEVISION Is IT a Trick or Treat? HBO Max’s Surprise IT: Welcome to Derry Halloween Special Reveals Ancient Secrets, a Cosmic Turtle, and the Origins of Pennywise’s Prison By R.A. Rayne | November 1, 2026 Pennywise in HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry. The Halloween special explores the ancient evil before its familiar clown disguise. Image: HBO, via WIRED. WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD This review reveals the events and ending of IT: Welcome to Derry – A Story of Derry, including the special’s biggest Stephen King mythology…

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The POP-EXPOSE 

Jason, Carrie, and Derry… Oh My!

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Jason, Carrie, and Derry… Oh My! By: R.A. Rayne We all love prequels, sequels, remakes, and TV adaptations. Whether done well or poorly, they take us back to our favorite places and expand the worlds we love. With the rise of streaming, franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, and DC have expanded their universes, and horror franchises are now joining the fray. While sequels, remakes, and TV adaptations aren’t new to the horror genre, what is new, or at least feels new, is expanding these franchises into a larger…

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Marvel TV 

Inside the Mind of VisionQuest

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VisionQuest Review: Marvel’s Most Human Show Is About Artificial Intelligence By R.A. Rayne Marvel Television’s VisionQuest. Official promotional artwork courtesy of Marvel Television / Disney+. For a synthetic, AI-centric show, VisionQuest is probably Marvel’s most human television show. The opening does a good job of catching the audience up on what happened after Infinity War, so you don’t feel like you need to watch WandaVision and/or Agatha All Along, but it’s still essential to go back and watch those to get the full story. VisionQuest opens with White Vision telling…

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Star Wars 

The Force Is Returning

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By: R.A. Rayne Whether you love it, hate it, or just like it, the Skywalker Saga is returning. This past week, Lucasfilm announced it is developing Star Wars: Episode X as the first film in a new trilogy that continues the Skywalker Saga. Director Jon Watts, known for Marvel’s Spider-Man trilogy and Disney+’s Skeleton Crew, is set to direct, and Simon Kinberg, who worked on the X-Men films and Star Wars Rebels, is writing the new trilogy. While details are scarce, the new trilogy is expected to extend the Skywalker…

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The POP-EXPOSE 

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

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By R.A. Rayne I have rewritten this opening a half dozen times now. I knew when I sat down to write this article it would be rough, but I never realized how freeing it would be. Call it luck, divine intervention, or just perfect timing, but this past week Destro Is My Spirit Animal gave us a chance to look at ourselves instead of the world of G.I. Joe. Recently, Mark Fogarty posted a YouTube video on his Destro Is My Spirit Animal channel, where he candidly discussed his experience…

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