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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.
Our Top 8 Road Trip Horror Movies
Since all of us are choking on inflation and likely aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, let’s take a look at the top road trip horror movies to watch this summer.
Our Favorite Horror Easter Eggs
With the Easter Bunny scheduled to make his rounds this weekend, the contributors at What Sleeps Beneath wanted to celebrate with delightfully creepy Easter eggs.
Smiley Face Killers Misses Potential
Based on real-life tragedies, Smiley Face Killers misses the potential of what could have been an enjoyable exploration of true crime.
Slayings in Suburbia: A Review of YOU, Season Three
The saga of murderers, Joe and Love, turned married progresses as a newborn baby throws a wrench into their new chapter in an upper-class suburban neighborhood.
6 Women Horror Directors You Should Know
To celebrate Women in Horror Month, we put together a list of women directors you should know.
Movie Review: Psycho (1960)
Just over 60 years after its original release, Psycho truly held up, focusing on the film’s cinematography, use of orchestra, and Hitchcock’s desire for secrecy.
Movie Review: Relic (2020)
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.
Guilt and Pain Drive ‘The Ritual’ (2017)
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.
Movie Review: Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell (2019)
On one side, I feel like Rob Zombie successfully created a movie that was indeed to his style, but on the other, at what cost? Or an even bigger question, for what reason?
Thanksgiving: Why Eat Turkey When You Can Eat People?
No matter what you prefer on your Thanksgiving plate, we’ve got five films filled with cannibals who prefer the human flesh during their holiday feast––and probably all the time! Why have a stuffed bird when you can have brains?
AHS 1984: Season Finale
The energy of the pressing episodes might as well have been like any ’80s hair band song—it was fast, loud and heavy.
Lost Vegas: Tim Burton at The Neon Museum
According to Burton, Vegas was the place where he looked on in awe as a child at the Dunes’ seahorses and witnessed a woman turn into a gorilla.
Review: My Friend Dahmer
Even if you can’t relate to ever being a weird kid, did you ever meet a true stranger? Someone you just couldn’t pin? In My Friend Dahmer, viewers get a glimpse of the life as told through the eyes of friend and graphic novelist Derf Backderf, right before before Jeffery Dahmer began his path to becoming the Milwaukee Monster.
AHS 1984: Episode One
Through the grainy effects used, I was tricked and transformed straight into the cliché horror-movie sex scene—you know, where everyone is obviously going to die.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Even by today’s standards, we can unfortunately predict that such a polite, attractive and considerate person isn’t easy to come by. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile never delivers that fear-for-your-life expectation, not until the very end.