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Warm Up Before Hallowen I: Tale's From the Crypt the Demon Knight

Tale's From the Crypt Demon Knight it was a theater presentation of Tale's From the Crypt TV series. It was directed by Ernst Dickerson. This movie has the participation of Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, and of course the Crypt Keeper himself, John Kassir. The movie has an unexpected start, and then when we finally see the Crypt Keeper he starts telling his story as he use to in the TV show. Then in a dark lonely road we se two cars into a chase when we realice that William Sadler is driving and has to scape from Billy Zane. This movie has all the elements of the TV show buy expanded with a bigger cast and better production. First starts with a mysterious character that is being chased and has to keep his identity as he approaches he finally finds a place to stay, a small wood place with enough room to serve a renting room house. As we advance in the story we learn more about the characters and the true face of the movie appears giving a twist in the

Who is Pepe the Frog? A doctoral thesis research

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It was reported that Pepe the frog or the sad frog was born as a Boy’s Club, a comic created by Matt Furie. This comic started to circle around 2005 on MySpace. So we went Deep into the water and searched for this Boy’s Club comic and this is what we found. In an interview for Vice the creator of the comic in which our friendly Pepe appears in 2015, he said he stopped drawing the comics about Pepe “three years ago”; so that is four years from now (because yes, we are in 2016, duh!) The comic artist, started noticing the popularity of Pepe when the phrase that made the character popular started appearing as a hashtag in the world of social networks. As we know now the character and #feelsgoodman started loosing its context, this means that the character started to come alive and bring its own universe. and use. Matt doesn’t seem to care about the now “public domain” use of Pepe as a MEME, and actually he is doesn’t feel that the internet stole him, he is actually takin