Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid...
The iconic line “If you build it, they will come” may have originally referred to a baseball field, but I’d argue that the record-breaking success of...
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying...
You can’t force a cultural phenomenon. At the end of the day, it’s the audience who decides what is and isn’t remembered, and all artists can...
Folk Horror stories need to develop naturally in order to feel authentic. Over time, generational beliefs bleed into popular culture until a storyteller is inspired to...
By all accounts, YouTube celebrity Mark Edward Fischbach (better known as Markiplier) appears to have done the impossible. Not only did he co-write, direct, edit and...
Stories about cinematic lost media are always fascinating, but they rarely have a happy ending. After all, it was only relatively recently that folks began treating...
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting...
Last month, Bloody Disgusting had the immense pleasure of announcing that Scott Glosserman’s long-gestating sequel to Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon blasted through...
Rocky Horror Picture Show fans are in for a treat next month, as Linus O’Brien (son of Richard O’Brien, actor behind Riff Raff and creator of...
There’s an argument to be made that B-movies, as we once knew them, no longer exist, as that term originally referred to the lower quality second...
It appears that we have a new scream queen on our hands after Inde Navarrette’s star-making performance in the smash hit Obsession. While Curry Barker’s film...
A new generation of filmmakers means a new generation of artistic influences. That’s why I think the best part about this recent wave of genre films...
It’s been two years since it was first announced that Kane Parsons’ reimagining of the Backrooms would be getting the Hollywood treatment. Since then, it seems...
It makes a lot of sense to adapt comic books to television rather than film. The serialized format makes it much easier to translate both long-term...
A few years back, I remember being surprised by the number of people discussing the corporate horror of Severance on social media. For a while there,...
A terrible job can be even worse than not having one at all, but it’s not always the work itself that makes a job unbearable. Sometimes,...
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have reached the conclusion that internet culture and modern technology are decidedly “uncinematic”. No matter how well researched they...
Part of the reason why Kane Parson’s Backrooms YouTube series has become such an inspirational hit among horror fans is the fact that a single talented...
Adapting internet properties to other media is never easy, but some ideas are especially well-suited for adaptations. Kane Parson’s YouTube reimagining of the Backrooms Creepypasta is...
The SCP Foundation is so influential that you’re likely already familiar with many of the series’ tropes and monsters, even if you’ve never actually sat down...
It may have taken a while, but it seems like movie studios have finally learned how to respect the source material when it comes to adapting...
Genres tend to only be recognized in retrospect, with critics commenting on certain patterns in media years after the fact and organizing art into easily classifiable...
Sam Raimi may have borrowed the idea of a cursed tome of eldritch knowledge from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, but the filmmaker’s vision of a...
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