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Merry Creepmas! Figures from Folklore to Keep Your Christmas Creepy
If you’re like me at all, Halloween is your favorite holiday, and by the time Christmas rolls around, you’re more than a little tired of what feels like the same 10 holiday songs on repeat.
The Influence of WWI on Horror: An Interview with Historian W. Scott Poole
Both Halloween and Veteran’s Day have come and gone, but around the end of October, I found myself thinking about the role of war in horror.
Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film
Though I initially anticipated something of a challenging read—by the end of my day, my brain is usually a bit soupy so I need to push myself to really engage with material that ventures more into theory—Scared Sacred immediately seized me with the engaging and approachable writing quality I found in its essays.
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?
Movie Review: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sleepy Hollow successfully mixes horror, fantasy, romance and Burton’s hallmark visual style to create an experience that continues to enthrall viewers.
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.
Winter's Coming: 5 Lesser Known Horror Films in the Snow
5 movies you need to be watching for the first snow-fall of the season
Shark Week: 24 Hours of the Best & Worst Sharks in Film, Part VI
Shark Week is an 11-part series dedicated to the education and preservation of one of nature’s oldest, most efficiently evolved species.
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.