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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Alaska Hallsworth 9/21/26 Alaska Hallsworth 9/21/26

‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter’: Vampires, Colonial Violence, and Who Gets to Tell the Story

In The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, blood carries the violence of colonialism, while a settler’s journal controls whose story survives. This essay examines how Stephen Graham Jones uses vampirism and layered testimony to confront historical erasure.

West Ambrose 6/15/26 West Ambrose 6/15/26

bunnydeath: Jiibayaabooz and the De-christing of Indigenous Horror Amidst Fascist Hellscapes in ‘Reanimal’

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.

Ande Thomas 6/26/20 Ande Thomas 6/26/20

Challenging Perception in ‘The Last Wave’

In lieu of any scary villains or boogeymen, The Last Wave allows a primal awareness to roll in like a storm cloud. Peter Weir is content to provide a framework of a story and allow Indigenous voices to drive the substance of the film.