The creators of internet icons that go on to inspire collaborative online fiction tend not to have much control over their creations once they leave the...
The home video market used to be a chaotic industry wedged neatly between theatrical releases and television productions. It was where indie filmmakers could experiment with...
From child-eating witches to village-burning dragons, fairy tales have always had a foot in the horror genre. That’s why it makes sense that, for every The...
Hollywood tends to learn all of the wrong lessons when confronted with an indie success story that doesn’t follow the established rules of the industry. For...
The past decade or so has seen a lot of online discourse about how comic-book movies popularized multiversal crossovers on the big screen. However, the truth...
Despite what the higher-ups at Marvel would have you believe, Stan Lee’s original vision for Spider-Man was very different from the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler that fans...
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...
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