The 100 Scariest Movies of All Time |
Why do some people love being scared? It seems counterintuitive to have a bad time just to feel good. Ask any horror buff and they will tell you otherwise. There are a serious of emotional responses in the brain that light up when we are afraid—releasing dopamine, adrenaline, and an exhilarating feeling only accomplished when that level of fight-or-flight is achieved. The best horror movies are the ones that can capitalize on that bizarre, scientific process, like a terrifying roller coaster for our brain. To help get you there, we've rounded up the 100 scariest movies of all time. It's a collection of hauntings, demonic possessions, crazed killers, camping trips gone wrong, and found-footage nightmares. Among classics such as Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist, you'll find modern masterpieces of horror, including Hereditary, The Grudge, and The Conjuring. With 100 films to sort through, even the most eclectic scary-movie fan will surely find something new to send a chill down their spine. Read on, if you dare … |
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Alexander Smalls Wants to Change How You Think About Food. Let Him. |
The Contemporary African Kitchen, the latest book from Alexander Smalls (out now), represents a cultural landmark and a professional milestone. Created in collaboration with writer Nina Oduro, the entrepreneur behind Dine Diaspora, it gathers recipes from chefs throughout the African continent—from Ghana and Uganda, Cameroon and Zambia, Burundi and Ethiopia, Nigeria and Senegal. (Among the notable contributors are Pierre Thiam, Eric Adjepong, Agness Colley, Rōze Traore, Mame Sow, Thabo Phake, and Mohamed Kamal.) In spite of familiar connections between, say, West African dishes and the Gullah cuisine that Smalls knows well from his South Carolina childhood, not to mention a vibrant Ethiopian restaurant scene in Washington D.C., African cooking remains frustratingly unsung when you survey the landscape of American restaurants. Lately there have been breakthroughs, of course—celebrated new restaurants such as Baobab Fare in Detroit, Dakar NOLA in New Orleans, Dept of Culture in Brooklyn, Teranga in Harlem, and Bintü Atelier in Charleston. But considering the vastness of the African continent, there's still a long way to go. |
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The Charging Tray You Should Actually Buy |
My nightstand is littered with the corpses of devices I'm testing. Right now you will see two iPhones, two Apple Watches, two pairs of earbuds, a whole-ass gaming monitor, and Nintendo's Alarmo (unplugged because it drives my bedfellow insane). This causes two problems, each at odds with the other. Organization is out the window and I clearly don't have charging plugs. Keeping the clutter in order is difficult. Oftentimes I realize the devices I need charged have little battery when it's too late. Then I found the product that changed it all. The MAG:3 Classics Dual-Device Charging Tray is the most practical way to class up your nightstand or desk space. It comes in both a linen and a leather choice—both incredibly nice for the price—all while keeping you from worrying about if your device is charging or not in the middle of the night. |
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10 Best Japanese Whisky Bottles to Drink Right Now |
In 2021, some good news for Japanese-whisky fans arrived in the form of new labeling standards set forth by the Japan Spirits & Liqueurs Makers Association, which were codified earlier this year … sort of. Japanese whisky is now subject to rules that clearly define what is in the bottle, although at this point it's really an agreement among producers rather than a legal requirement. According to Kris Elliott, cofounder of High Road Spirits, which imports Japanese whisky, among other spirits, the intent is for these standards to become law within a few years, ensuring that Japanese whisky will be defined as specifically as Scotch or bourbon is. Elliott believes that the new standards will benefit the industry as a whole. "Even though Japanese whisky is growing as a category, it is quite small compared to other global whisky categories," he said. "As the industry matures and the regulations are recognized, there will be less brands 'faking it until they make it.' It will be an evolution, a curve, until we reach a level of transparency all the way to the consumer." After all, that's all whisky fans are asking for–to know what exactly is in the bottle, whatever it might be, which seems like a pretty reasonable request. Here are some of the best Japanese whiskies you can find now, from single malts to blends to single grain rice whiskies. |
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Does Trump Think This Is All a Movie? |
For a while now it's been clear that Trump is, mentally, not all there. The New York Times finally acknowledged his decompensation–a fact that brought a modicum of brightness to the day of my Esquire colleague Charles P. Pierce. Ezra Klein joined the grand tradition of armchair-psychologizing Trump and decided the former president's problem–or superpower–is his disinhibition. There's the question of age, of course: Trump's speech is undoubtedly similar to the speech of a person experiencing age-related cognitive decline. He rambles. He lies. He straight-up invents things. He recounts imaginary conversations between leaders of countries that don't exist. Et cetera. But I think something else might be going on. There may be another dimension to the "Trump's brain is as smooth as a putting green at the Masters" chorus: Not only is his mind going, but he also appears unable to tell the difference between reality and storylines that he's seen in a movie or on TV. |
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Jeff VanderMeer's Nightmare Fuel |
"It's not going to attack you," Jeff VanderMeer promises when an alligator creeps past us just after dawn. I've never seen one in the wild before. It smells like a leather-bound book that's been sitting at the bottom of a bog for thirty years. By the time I take my phone out for a picture, the armored reptile has already disappeared into the salt marsh. "I'm quite fond of them," VanderMeer says. "We see them as unintelligent because they're so different from us, but they're actually very social and complex." Overhead, white terns scream across a silver sky while in the distance, a nineteenth-century lighthouse looms over the sea. This is St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, a pristine wilderness on Florida's Forgotten Coast, home to more than three hundred species of birds. I asked VanderMeer to meet me here because its uncanny landscape directly inspired Area X, the setting of his 2014 Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) as well as this year's Absolution, a "surprise" fourth book in the series that serves as both prequel and sequel. |
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