Petra finds a carnivorous plant and immediately starts thinking about medicine. I was mostly wondering how long it would take the thing to digest a person. Tatiana Schlote-Bonne builds What Feeds Below inside that gap. Her narrator is surrounded by organisms that eat, infect and rebuild human bodies, and she keeps wanting to get closer.

Revenge asks very little of the reader. Establish a wound. Point the wounded party toward whoever made it. We handle the rest quickly because the arithmetic feels good, and we have been practicing it since we were old enough to be treated unfairly. Scott Hawkins gives you that arithmetic early in Blacktail, then spends the rest of the book taking the calculator apart on the table in front of you.

Reanimal, Tarsier Studios’s latest near-wordless video game, shows players a hellscape steeped in fascism where five children journey into the maws of death. On the surface, it is about a boy finding his beloved sibling amongst the wreckage and reuniting them with friends. Yet, nothing is what it appears as these masked travelers traverse realms of watery nightmares.

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.

“You’re going to need a bigger boat,” Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) trembles, having seen the great white shark Quint (Robert Shaw) and Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) have been collectively searching for—hunting for—for the first time since the people of Amity Island started being consumed by the eating machine.

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?

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.

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?

In this month’s sponsored review, Destiny goes to the drive-in for a classic summer horror movie watching experience.

Obsession follows protagonist Shion, a loner-type teenage boy struggling with his relationship with his parents, his friends, and keeping his magic abilities secret.

Slash/Back–an Indigenous, young-adult supernatural slasher thematically evocative of The Thing (1982)--both interweaves young tenacity against monstrous odds with engaging ideas.

Celebrating the success of the James Webb Space Telescope with our favorite space-horror movies.

Reignite your fear of the great outdoors with our list of recommended horror movies that celebrate the dark side of spring.

In our latest horror review of Natalie Erika James’ Relic, Destiny Johnson dives into what works and what doesn’t for the narrative, and how the mind is truly a haunted house.

In fact, Cabin is just as much of a comedy or takes on elements of science fiction, as much as it is a “loving hate letter” to horror.

From the tragic evening, into the unknown and unwavering forest, the viewer is met with horror-version visuals of what it might be like to live through a devastating experience.