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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Ande Thomas 8/12/20 Ande Thomas 8/12/20

‘I Saw the Devil’ 10th Anniversary Review

Though you never stop rooting for Soo-hyeon, there are several times when you have to ask yourself, “Is he going too far? Should I be feeling the way I feel?”

Ande Thomas 7/30/20 Ande Thomas 7/30/20

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Nobuo Nakagawa’s ‘Jigoku’ (1960)

What it may lack, for some viewers, in pacing, it more than makes up for in creativity.

Ande Thomas 4/3/20 Ande Thomas 4/3/20

Does ‘The Hunt’ (2020) Land its Political Satire?

The cracks might be obvious, but in a film so obviously tongue-in-cheek, where every character is a caricature and no one is safe, it’s difficult to seriously suggest anyone will actually be offended.