Tag: horror movies

News: Horror Movies Burn Calories

Stefanie Snider

“The study found that films with regular “jump-scare” moments were most likely to help burn calories because they increased the heart rate dramatically…

Some movies were more effective than others…of the 10 films studied, the top calorie-burners were the classic Stanley Kubrick chiller The Shining (184 calories), Jaws (161 calories) and The Exorcist (158 calories).”
-from The Guardian

Click here for the full article, and remember to keep your eyes open during the scary bits if you want to justify that movie-theatre junk food.

Stephen King’s Advice to Young Writers

Stefanie Snider

Seeing as Spike TV denied myself and my fellow Canadians our 8:00 showing of The Shining, I went looking for supplementary King material. I came across this brief excerpt from a talk he did at Yale:


Short and sweet. Read a lot. Write a lot. Simple.

Hopefully the Canadian version of the Stephen King Marathon gets back on track tomorrow…in the meantime, I’ve posted the (apparently American) schedule here.

Stephen King Marathon This Weekend

Stefanie Snider

It’s probably pretty obvious by this point that I’m a big King fan.
(see: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)

So you can imagine that I’m FREAKIN’ EXCITED! about the Stephen King movies playing on Spike TV this weekend. Here’s the lineup, in Eastern Standard Time:

Tonight, Friday July 13th
7:00 PM – Christine
9:30 PM – Cujo
11:30 PM – Creepshow

Tomorrow, Saturday July 14th
11:30 AM – IT
3:30 PM – Christine
6:00 PM – Cujo
8:00 PM – The Shining — MY FAVOURITE!
11:30 PM – Dreamcatcher

Sunday, July 15th
11:00 AM – The Shining

I’ll be watching, will you?