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Peg Aloi

In honor of Beltane: a new podcast!

Hello! Yes, it’s been a while! Happy Beltane to you all.

1 min readMay 3, 2024

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In honor of Beltane: a new podcast!

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Peg Aloi

Satanic Panic Redux

Hello folks!

2 min readMar 7, 2023

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Satanic Panic Redux

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Peg Aloi

The Craft: Legacy is a featherlight reboot to a dark cult addiction

The cultural impact of the 1996 horror-thriller The Craft goes far beyond its status as a cool femme-goth paean to mid-1990s fashion and…

8 min readOct 28, 2020

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The Craft: Legacy is a featherlight reboot to a dark cult addiction

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Peg Aloi

Watching The Witch with Two Actual Witches

(originally published on the A24 Film blog!)

7 min readOct 27, 2020

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Watching The Witch with Two Actual Witches

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Peg Aloi

TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s…

7 min readSep 18, 2020

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TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

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Peg Aloi

The Awakening of Spring

Easter is a day of seasonal splendor for me. Raised Catholic as many witches were, Easter has always held a special magic of memory, in…

4 min readApr 12, 2020

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The Awakening of Spring

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Peg Aloi

WATCH CLOSELY: Peg’s Pandemic Picks — Medieval Plague Edition

This new series will offer ideas for movies and series that have stories or themes at least marginally related to the pandemic we’re all…

5 min readMar 19, 2020

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WATCH CLOSELY: Peg’s Pandemic Picks — Medieval Plague Edition

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Peg Aloi

The Latest “Dracula” is Bold and Bloody

This BBC/Netflix production is an audacious rekindling of the undying appeal of literature’s most famous vampire.

5 min readJan 17, 2020

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The Latest “Dracula” is Bold and Bloody

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Peg Aloi

Actually…Witchcraft is Hard

My coven has a little framed bit of calligraphy hanging by the entrance door to our temple, hung there back in the 1970s I believe, that…

10 min readJan 14, 2020

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WATCH CLOSELY: Stephen King is My Boyfriend — Hanging out at “Castle Rock”

If Castle Rock is intended to be a commentary on Trump’s not-so-great America, well, what better genre than horror to spread the angst?

7 min readOct 21, 2019

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Peg Aloi

Peg Aloi

The Media Witch is a multi-faceted writer, mainly a film/TV critic. She’s also a tree-hugging weirdo and badass bitch with a nice head o' hair.

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