My job is about understanding someone’s life in reverse.”Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! The problem with a lot of classic horror tropes is that they’ve become too familiar ...

I have written a lot about Mark Herrier’s 1991 slasher Popcorn in this column, for reasons that are relatively obvious to anyone who has seen it. Popcorn is about a group of film students who are ...

The midnight spook shows that had packed houses throughout the 1930s and 40s had already begun to wane by the 1950s, but not everyone was willing to let them go. The final decade of the era of spook ...

Black Box arrives on VOD July 7th having done something genuinely clever with its concept and something genuinely confusing with its finale. Director Steven Quale (the guy who made Final Destination 5 ...

You already know Cinderella. You know the glass slipper, the pumpkin carriage, the wicked stepsisters who exist only to be foils for a golden heroine on her way to a happily ever after. You have been ...

Horror fans, genre fiends, and indie film obsessives—Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) 2025 is kicking down the door with its third and final wave of programming, and it’s the weirdest, wildest lineup ...

Dhruv Uday Singh plays May’s non-supportive husband Ted. From the outset, it’s clear their relationship is unhealthy. Ted dismisses May’s career. When she talks to him about a recent book signing, he ...

“It was only natural that Edison’s idea to combine films and sound would lead to someone deciding to combine films and odors,” writes James L. Limbacher in his 1969 book Four Aspects of the Film, ...

Reality can often be far more terrifying than imagined horrors. In 2017, Taiwanese indie game developer, Red Candle Games, released a survival horror relying on this very idea. The video game, titled ...

Because I accidentally watched a disc out of order, we’ll be skipping over Wilczyca and Lokis in the All the Haunts Be Ours boxed set (for now) and instead tackling this meditative Canadian thriller ...

I missed the VHS RPG – which stands for Very Horror Stories – on Kickstarter, but I snapped it up via BackerKit. Of course I did. Here is a VHS-themed tabletop roleplaying game exploring three ...

As some of us know, Mark Z. Danielewski’s seven-hundred-and-nine-page epic about a place beyond all dimension and comprehension (a term also applicable to what your cat thinks when you have to put it ...