What Sleeps Beneath is an online magazine that explores the horror genre as one of the most important cultural vehicles of our time. It is a home for all horror-loving nerds, and a space to investigate what the genre tells us about ourselves. We write book and movie reviews, conduct interviews, and write original academic research.
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Reading the Bible with Horror: An Interview with Professor Brandon Grafius
There is something both viscerally compelling and haunting about religious horror, whether it simply be flavored with something like Catholic iconography or saturated with a terrifying belief system baked into the very writing.
Movie Review: Color Out of Space (2020)
The team working on Color successfully adapted a Lovecraft story for the modern world. The “indescribable” horror is translated to screen via brilliant practical effects and images largely only seen through a reflection—out of the proverbial corner of the viewer’s eye, if you will. What we see otherwise is nothing short of stomach-droppingly beautiful—a visual feast reminiscent of Mandy.
‘Ginger Snaps’: Puberty and the Female Werewolf
If Ginger’s transformation is a manifestation of her blossoming womanhood, then both Brigitte and their mother express a desire to prevent Ginger’s growing up.
Movie Review: Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell (2019)
On one side, I feel like Rob Zombie successfully created a movie that was indeed to his style, but on the other, at what cost? Or an even bigger question, for what reason?
Merry Creepmas! Figures from Folklore to Keep Your Christmas Creepy
If you’re like me at all, Halloween is your favorite holiday, and by the time Christmas rolls around, you’re more than a little tired of what feels like the same 10 holiday songs on repeat.
The Influence of WWI on Horror: An Interview with Historian W. Scott Poole
Both Halloween and Veteran’s Day have come and gone, but around the end of October, I found myself thinking about the role of war in horror.
Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film
Though I initially anticipated something of a challenging read—by the end of my day, my brain is usually a bit soupy so I need to push myself to really engage with material that ventures more into theory—Scared Sacred immediately seized me with the engaging and approachable writing quality I found in its essays.
Thanksgiving: Why Eat Turkey When You Can Eat People?
No matter what you prefer on your Thanksgiving plate, we’ve got five films filled with cannibals who prefer the human flesh during their holiday feast––and probably all the time! Why have a stuffed bird when you can have brains?
Movie Review: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sleepy Hollow successfully mixes horror, fantasy, romance and Burton’s hallmark visual style to create an experience that continues to enthrall viewers.
AHS 1984: Season Finale
The energy of the pressing episodes might as well have been like any ’80s hair band song—it was fast, loud and heavy.
Winter's Coming: 5 Lesser Known Horror Films in the Snow
5 movies you need to be watching for the first snow-fall of the season
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part VI
Shark Week is an 11-part series dedicated to the education and preservation of one of nature’s oldest, most efficiently evolved species.
Movie Review: Draug
Though the movie is easily one of my favorites to come out of the last two years, there were some issues with focus that took me a bit out of the flow of the story.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part V
Shark Week is an 11-part series dedicated to the education and preservation of one of nature’s oldest, most efficiently evolved species.
Lost Vegas: Tim Burton at The Neon Museum
According to Burton, Vegas was the place where he looked on in awe as a child at the Dunes’ seahorses and witnessed a woman turn into a gorilla.
A Flowering of Hellebore: An Interview with Founding Editor Maria Pérez Cuervo
I recently had the chance to talk with magazine founding editor Maria Pérez Cuervo about what inspired the creation of [Hellebore] magazine, plans for the future, and how folk horror inspires her.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part IV
Shark Week is an 11-part series dedicated to the education and preservation of one of nature’s oldest, most efficiently evolved species.
Review: My Friend Dahmer
Even if you can’t relate to ever being a weird kid, did you ever meet a true stranger? Someone you just couldn’t pin? In My Friend Dahmer, viewers get a glimpse of the life as told through the eyes of friend and graphic novelist Derf Backderf, right before before Jeffery Dahmer began his path to becoming the Milwaukee Monster.
Marianne Makes Her Sinister Debut on Netflix
Netflix brings the French-language Marianne to the Halloween table.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part III
Shark Week is an ongoing, weekly series about people getting eaten as fast as possible.