The line separating artist from con man is a lot thinner than you might initially believe. While I think we can all agree that lying for...
There has never been a better time to be a fan of survival horror. While the successful resurrection of some of our favorite video game franchises...
It’s been 75 years since The Thing From Another World first warned us to “watch the skies”, and filmgoers have done just that by showing up...
Film and literature may have romanticized the Old West and reimagined it as a fantastical era filled with gunslinging heroes and epic struggles between man and...
With all the hullabaloo surrounding Kane Parsons’ big screen adaptation of/sequel to his Backrooms web-series, it’s easy to forget that the Backrooms phenomenon itself actually began...
A little while back, I wrote an article chronicling the Hellraiser franchise’s affinity for Film Noir and touched on how that genre has, historically, always been...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus took the literary world by storm back in 2023 with the release of his hit novel Whalefall. A terrifying yet intimate...
Found footage movies rely on immersion and a particular kind of suspension of disbelief in order to scare viewers, so it stands to reason that playing...
If there’s one artistic medium that can perfectly recreate the despair of living through a vivid nightmare, it has to be video games. A simulated world...
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...
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