[Book Review] ‘Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird’

To any external observer, some indifferent alien surveyor, it would be the insects who rule the planet known as Earth. They fill the gamut of ecological niches, from lowly grazer to apex predator. They’ve developed agriculture and architecture as well as less visible, but no less complex, social structures. They outnumber the planet’s dominant mammalian species, an amusingly recent development in its bio-history, by a factor of nearly 1.5 billion to one.

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[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.

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Our Favorite Indie Horror Films

Indie filmmakers are the heart of the horror genre. While mainstream horror flicks bring in large numbers, it is the indie films that typically push the boundaries and take on ambitious themes. Often uncomfortable, gross, or downright strange, here are some of our very favorite indie horror films.

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Ryan Imhoff's "Stranger" Haunts a Zoom Reunion in ‘Fresh Hell’

Fresh Hell (2022), directed by Matt Neal and Ryan Imhoff, is the latest in post-pandemic found footage horror films centering around Zoom meetings, and for its part, has no problem identifying itself as a product of the lockdowns, explicitly citing the virus and the unrest it caused in the opening scene.

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Movie Review: “Plan 9 from Outer Space” (1959)

While protestors fight tooth and nail for a better future where Black lives are protected, cherished and uplifted, we sit squarely at a cultural crossroads where the U.S. has the chance to reckon with the atomic graveyard of its past.

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