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Of course, Sarah Michelle Gellar would reprise her role as the epic vampire slayer Buffy Summers.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025 -
But rather than portraying a high school student tasked with saving the world from evil, Gellar will reportedly have a recurring role in support of a new vampire slayer.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2025
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According to Hindu scriptures, gods and demons once churned the cosmic ocean in search of the nectar of immortality.—
Kyra Colah,
Fox News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Lamar is also well aware of his demons and has made peace with his vices.—
Taylor Crumpton,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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Eliot beforehand – and the nightmarish inner gorge is a spiffy mix of nature run amok plus terrifying ghouls that would give Swamp Thing the willies.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.—
Eric Kohn,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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The film treats Ryder’s Beth as the evil hag witch who the virginal hard worker Nina has to beat to achieve her dreams, and Ryder plays that role with relish and gusto.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
6 Sep. 2024
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Oh, and Jen is also there, dressed as the hag form of the Evil Queen from Snow White.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2024
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Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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That includes, but is not limited to...actual humans, DMs, AI bots or succubus demons.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
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The computer daemon operates in a similar manner, continuously working behind the scenes to keep processes going and to address service requests.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2024
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Yet in their original form gremlins are alive and well, living under new names—daemons, worms, virtual pets.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2024
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This meaning is visualized in Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, which shows a woman sleeping peacefully on a couch while a nauseating monster—an incubus—sits portentously on her abdomen, unbeknownst to her.—
Time,
Time,
28 Dec. 2022
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As Tommy’s experiences in the tunnels of France mark a continued incubus for his character, with visions of being pulled into the mud, the sounding of the bell coincides with his own inner peace.—
Josh St. Clair,
Men's Health,
13 June 2022
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But read two more and the skeptical imp within you awakens.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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William got a kick out of the little imp, and Gary was in awe of William.—
Ira Silverberg,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2024
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“Lamia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamia. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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