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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Possession & Exorcism Laura Kemmerer Possession & Exorcism Laura Kemmerer

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.

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Laura Kemmerer Laura Kemmerer

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. 

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Destiny King Destiny King

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?

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True Crime Destiny King True Crime Destiny King

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.

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