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Movie Review: Draug
Though the movie is easily one of my favorites to come out of the last two years, there were some issues with focus that took me a bit out of the flow of the story.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part V
Shark Week is an 11-part series dedicated to the education and preservation of one of nature’s oldest, most efficiently evolved species.
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.
A Flowering of Hellebore: An Interview with Founding Editor Maria Pérez Cuervo
I recently had the chance to talk with magazine founding editor Maria Pérez Cuervo about what inspired the creation of [Hellebore] magazine, plans for the future, and how folk horror inspires her.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part IV
Shark Week is an 11-part series dedicated to the education and preservation of one of nature’s oldest, most efficiently evolved species.
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.
Marianne Makes Her Sinister Debut on Netflix
Netflix brings the French-language Marianne to the Halloween table.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part III
Shark Week is an ongoing, weekly series about people getting eaten as fast as possible.
Creepshow (2019) [TV Review]
It’s abundantly clear from the outset that a lot of love and dedication went into the reboot, and so much of the craft that went into making the show came directly from the people who worked on Romero’s movie, or grew up inspired by it.
Mortician at the Mütter Museum: Meeting Caitlin Doughty & Reminders of My Own Mortality
In the opening of the talk, Doughty jokingly pointed out that her parents said they hadn’t really “seen the signs” of her inclination toward the morbid as she was growing up. In one instance, she mentioned finding a diary from her childhood in which the sole entry was a celebration of Halloween finally having arrived.
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.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part II
Sometimes you really can take Shark Week too seriously. Sitting through 36 Shark Week staples. And others.
A resurgence of Folk-Horror - Round Table Discussion of “Midsommar”
Largely billed as horror that takes place in broad daylight, Midsommar was director and screenwriter Ari Aster’s first heavy-hitting film following Hereditary. In this collaborative review, we hear from all three founding writers on their perspectives in the resurgence of folk-horror.
This is Who We Are: Meet the Contributors
It all started with a Black Phillip coffee mug. We're a group of writers, friends, and horror-loving nerds. Come hang out with us!
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.
Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (2017) [Movie Review]
The four-act structure and the subsequent slide of one woman, living alone, into the relentlessly grinding maw of social expectations, culture, and the Old High German titular “witch” (Hagazussa) concept was a deeply moving joy.
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best and Worst Sharks in Film
Sometimes you really can take Shark Week too seriously. Sitting through 36 Shark Week staples. And others.