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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‘Itch!’ Interview: Bari Kang on Practical Gore and Making Horror a Family Affair
Filmmaker Bari Kang discusses Itch!, from its practical gore and zombie influences to filming in his own NYC store and directing his daughter.
So, Happy ‘Together’?: A One-Year Retrospective on the Legal Battle over The Spice Girls
What can we learn from the ongoing legal battle between 2025’s Together and the lesser-known Better Half from 2023?
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Together
Dave Franco and Alison Brie star in Together, a body-horror-tinged warning against codependent relationships and a PSA to always bring water purification tablets on your hikes.
Fracturing Identity: Self-Injury and Societal Violence in ‘The Substance’
Self-harm is a subject so taboo that even the horror genre struggles to depict it. The Substance is a film that embraces this difficult topic alongside aging, and bodily mutilation through the lens of societal pressures.
Immaculate - Movie Review
Sydney Sweeney’s performance in Immaculate takes audiences by storm, launching the newly released horror film into heightened status. Spurring discussions on pro-choice and institutional power, the film is a refreshing new story in the nunsploitation subgenre.
The Entity (1982): Mirrors, Trauma, and Visual Language
The visual language of Sidney Furie's The Entity (1982) hints that the psychiatrists treating Carla Moran may not have been so off target, after all.
Our Favorite Bloodiest Films, Ranked
From classic slasher films to modern-day masterpieces, these movies are sure to satisfy your thirst for blood and gore. Here’s our top 10 bloodiest films that will leave you both terrified and entertained.
Bones (and love) and All
The 2022 release of Luca Guadagnino’s movie Bones and All is a genre-bending romantic horror film about living on the run. It is a vampiric, cannibalistic, grotesque, haunting, and gut wrenching account of two young lovers coming of age at the margins of society.
[Book Review] ‘Shredded: A Sports and Fitness Body Horror Anthology’
Edited by Eric Raglin and published by the Cursed Morsels Podcast, Shredded is the kind of love letter to body horror for the kids who were picked last in gym class and fitness nuts alike.
The Entity (1982): Psychiatry, Hysteria, and Women’s Healthcare
How the psychiatrists in The Entity represent the failings of the medical profession when it comes to women’s mental health.
Phil Tippett Revives Stop Motion Animation in ‘Mad God’
The retro-futuristic land of Phil Tippett’s newest release Mad God revives scary stop-motion animation in a mostly silent movie that pays homage to films across the dystopian horror genre.
‘The Skin I Live In’: Abject, Object, and Gender
Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial 2011 film The Skin I Live In is the ultimate conundrum: It is both visually and auditorily appealing, exciting and shocking, and yet it is deeply problematic.
‘Scanners’, 40 Years Later
In this 40th anniversary review, Ande revisits one of the most iconic scenes in body horror in Scanners, the film that brought David Cronenberg international attention.
Identity & Technology in Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor’
Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg’s latest feature, leans into the family legacy of body horror but also struggles to maintain focus.
Fear the Thanksgiving Leftovers: Our Recommended Collection of Food Horror
Thanksgiving is over, and while most of us couldn’t see our families this year, that didn’t stop us from feasting. Here's a food horror roundup to celebrate Thanksgiving 2020.
‘I Saw the Devil’ 10th Anniversary Review
Though you never stop rooting for Soo-hyeon, there are several times when you have to ask yourself, “Is he going too far? Should I be feeling the way I feel?”
‘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.