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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.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Tarot (2024)
Tarot follows a group of college students who unwittingly unleash a vengeful spirit infused into a cursed tarot deck, dooming them to mysterious, seemingly accidental deaths.
[Movie Review] Late Night with The Devil
David Dastmalchian’s star shines bright in the found footage/broadcast horror Late Night with the Devil, a breakout sensation for Shudder.
Dark Reflections: Horror Games and Mirror Neurons
Contributor Brandon Allison delves into the world of horror video games, where mirror neurons play a pivotal role, especially in those crafted to elicit spine-tingling thrills for our enjoyment.
Horror Movies Featuring A Presidential Figure
Explore the dark side of politics this President's Day weekend with our bone-chilling movie list, featuring several commanders-in-chief facing terrifying aliens, zombies, the supernatural, and more.
[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.
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.
[Book Review] ‘Silver Nitrate’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Renowned author of the novel Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia weaves occult, supernatural, and conspiracy in her latest novel Silver Nitrate.
Magic and Murder - A Review Of Memories of Sorrow Book 1: Obsession
Obsession follows protagonist Shion, a loner-type teenage boy struggling with his relationship with his parents, his friends, and keeping his magic abilities secret.
Navigating Shared Trauma in Mike Flanagan’s ‘Oculus’
Mike Flanagan’s lesser known film Oculus has the trappings of your average haunted house story, but with a twist up its sleeve.
A Master in the Making: Mike Flanagan's ‘Absentia’
Flanagan’s remarkable understanding of the ghost story subgenre pulls through in his 2011 film Absentia in which the ghost stands in for a character’s pain.
[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.
The Entity: Trauma and the Transgression of Spirits, Part III
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.
[Movie Review] Gabriel Bier Gislason's ‘Attachment’ on Shudder
The feature debut from Denmark-based writer and director Gabriel Bier Gislason combines demonic possession and a rom-com style meet-cute in a horror romance steeped in Jewish folklore. Now streaming on Shudder.
Intertwining True Crime and the Supernatural: A Review of ‘The Black Phone’
The Black Phone is a psychological thriller about a 13-year-old boy who must fight to escape the clutches of a neighborhood serial killer.
Skinamarink Preys on Your Worst Childhood Nightmares
Kyle Edward Ball’s debut horror feature, Skinamarink, is an experimental nightmare that taps into our basest childhood fears of helplessness, loneliness, and the dark.
Trauma and the Transgression of Spirits in ‘The Entity,’ Part II
How the psychiatrists in The Entity represent the failings of the medical profession when it comes to women’s mental health.
Running Up That Hill: If Only Stranger Things’ Characters Could Beat Their Trauma
In Season 4 of Stranger Things characters dealing with mental illness and trauma are targeted and tortured by Vecna, leaving viewers to pick up the importance of getting help.
The Entity: Trauma and the Transgression of Spirits
Sidney Furie’s film attracted a fair amount of attention—not least because this film, like The Amityville Horror before it, was based on a true, and well-documented, story.
New 4K Restoration of Iván Zulueta's ‘Arrebato’
Arrebato (Rapture) is the 1979 cult-hit from Spanish director Iván Zulueta that has thrilled and mystified international audiences for decades and will soon be available for the first time in the United States.