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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- Women in Horror
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WSB x Moving Picture Review: Terrifier 3
In Damien Leone's Terrifier 3, the franchise delivers another grotesque yet darkly comedic horror. A standout in modern horror, the film combines over-the-top gore with laugh-out-loud moments, cementing its place as essential holiday viewing for horror fans.
PMPF Returns To The Lindsay Theater For Its Third Annual Thriller Picture Show
What Sleeps Beneath is excited to sponsor the Third Annual Thriller Picture Show, with our Director of Content, Ande Thomas, honored to serve as one of this year’s judges.
A Terrifying Cocktail—Honoring Art the Clown
Make a toast to the latest and greatest horror icon in this terrifyingly delicious cocktail inspired by Art the Clown of the Terrifier franchise.
Book Review: All These Steps Lead Down
Journey into the abyss in Nelson W. Pyles’s forthcoming title, All These Steps Lead Down.
Fact or Fiction: Bears as Super-Predators in Animal Horror Cinema
Movies like Cocaine Bear and Unnatural have captured audiences for their extreme depictions of bears, but how does this dramatization of unpredictable bear attacks effect our relationship to wildlife off screen?
True Nature Contained: A Bear’s Primal Terror In Animal Horror Cinema
A lifetime combination of fictional and nonfictional encounters will weave terrifying images in our minds about encountering a bear in the woods. Grizzly and The Edge exploit the primal fear of being hunted by a brown bear, realistic or not.
Immersed in Grizzly Bear Country: My Trip to Alberta After Reading ‘Mauled’
Welcome to Bear Month at WSB! Grizzly bears have long held anxieties for hikers and campers in the backcountry, and have made their way into the horror genre as a pseudo serial killer - but are these fears unwarranted?
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Don't ever say his name! Our favorite undead character is back again. Destiny reviews Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—the perfect beginning to spooky season.
Pascal Plante’s 'Red Rooms' Challenges Our Fascination with True Crime
The new release Red Rooms offers an intense and accurate take on true crime, cyber hacking, and the depths one will go to uncover the truth.
[Movie Review] Steven Boyle’s Debut Film ‘The Demon Disorder’ Coming to Shudder
The Demon Disorder stars Christian Willis as Graham Reilly, whose estrangement from his brothers Jake (Dirk Hunter) and Phillip (Charles Cottier), following the death of their father George (John Noble), comes to an abrupt end when Jake arrives unannounced at Graham’s auto shop, to tell him that Phillip is suffering from the same affliction that befell their father.
[Movie Review] Full Moon Features Presents: ‘Quadrant’
Full Moon Features' 400th film, Quadrant, takes audiences into a dark, AI-generated virtual world where fears become reality, but its rapid pacing and uneven dialogue may overshadow the eerie, hallucinatory visuals that make this horror thriller stand out.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Cuckoo
The newly released horror film Cuckoo, written and directed by Tilman Singer and starring Hunter Schafer is a fresh new take on sci-fi adjacent horror that will leave you confused and horrified in the best way.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Longlegs
Longlegs, straightforward as it appears, is one that will undeniably bear fruit with repeated screenings.
MaXXXine, The Final Film of Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy
Ti West’s final film in his most recent trilogy surprises with a unique ending.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: A Quiet Place Day One (2024)
In this month’s sponsored review, Destiny goes to the drive-in for a classic summer horror movie watching experience.
‘M is for Miscarriage’ by Ti West - Movie Review
A short in the anthology The ABC’s of Death, Ti West depicts a scenario far ahead of its time.
Ti West’s Pearl - Movie Review
Pearl, the prequel to X and second film in Ti West’s series about a farm girl in Texas, stars Mia Goth in an exceptional performance in a horror movie unlike any other.
X (2022) - Movie Review
Ti West’s 2022 horror film X (starring Mia Goth) is the first in a trilogy that challenges audience expectations with female agency, the pain of growing old, and toxic masculinity— with a body count.
Watching Ti West's ‘The House of The Devil’ on VHS
Watching horror on a VHS tape isn’t just a throwback to decades past - its a whole other viewing experience.
Dagr (2024) - [Movie Review]
Decades after the debut of The Blair Witch Project, found footage horror is still alive and well with the newly released film Dagr.