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Review: AMC's 'NOS4A2' brings Joe Hill's horror novel to creepy life with Zachary Quinto

If you sound out the title of the new AMC show "NOS4A2" letter by number, you get something like "Nosferatu," as in the vampire. And there is indeed a character here, named Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto), who stays alive by siphoning the life force from children as they ride in his old Rolls-Royce toward Christmasland, "a very special place where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law." It won't be as good a place as it sounds, and actually, it sounds pretty horrible.

The series, which premiered

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