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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WSB x Moving Picture Review: Bring Her Back

In Bring Her Back, Andy and his visually impaired stepsister Piper are thrust into the foster care system following the unexpected death of their father. After Andy convinces their social worker not to split the pair up until he turns 18 when he can file for guardianship, Andy and Piper find themselves at the door of Laura, an ex-counselor who became a foster parent after her own daughter’s drowning, and Oliver, her eerily mute ward.

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[Movie Review] There Is a Monster (2024)

There Is a Monster, a small budget supernatural horror film from writer and director Mike Taylor, is fresh out of the starting gate on VOD platforms. Based loosely on his own family’s experiences, There Is a Monster is a personal work for Taylor, starring Joey Collins as Jack, a veteran portrait photographer whose small studio is just starting to gain traction.

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Revisiting the Old Haunts

As we find ourselves in the midst of the years’ most frigid days, we are also at our most reflective. Seasonal solitude coinciding with holiday festivities creates a space to contemplate relationships past and present. Do you traipse around your house in the shadows of early nightfall? Catch a glimpse of a specter of the previous you? Or maybe, someone you used to know? Film grants us the opportunity to explore these experiences of isolation, contemplation, and fear of someone near and dear not being exactly the same as you remember.

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[CFF 2023] Review: Mind Body Spirit

Finally, audiences will get to see the dark art of yoga for what it truly is. Coming into Chattanooga Film Festival, Mind Body Spirit, a found footage-style horror film about a hopeful yoga influencer, was one of the higher profile draws featured in the festival’s lineup.

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