While we know them as distinct monsters nowadays, most tales of bogeymen tend to converge the further back you go. Vampires, werewolves and undead ghouls may...
There’s no shortage of author surrogates in horror fiction. From Stephen King’s numerous fictional writers to the self-insert protagonists of H.P. Lovecraft, this has always been...
Fallout was my first M-rated game. While I was way too young at the time to truly appreciate Interplay’s satirical odyssey through a dystopic wasteland, I...
I was a Stephen King fan growing up, but my family lacked the means to keep up with my literary habits. This meant that I couldn’t...
The horror anthology is a lot older than most people realize. Even during the silent era, we had films like Richard Oswald‘s 1919 Unheimliche Geschichten, and...
Clive Barker‘s Books of Blood are fondly remembered as some of the best scary story collections ever put to paper (or skin, for that matter), with...
It can’t compete with the enduring popularity of Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, but William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is widely regarded as one of the Bard’s...
Now that the dust has settled on the finale, it’s clear that Misha Green has steered HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” into certified hit territory, blending old-school Cosmic-Horror...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is fondly remembered as the terrifying title that changed the indie game industry, re-popularizing Survival Horror and influencing interactive media even a...
As the Halloween Season rolls in, a lot of people ask why we love to celebrate the dark and macabre when the real world is already...
With all the quality horror content on television screens over the past decade, it’s almost inconceivable that there was once a time when small-screen scares were...
Horror is often associated with smaller budgets and novice filmmakers (which makes sense, as it’s a lot easier to produce an indie slasher than a war...
During the height of the Cold War, Soviet spies weren’t the only foreign invaders America was worried about. After widely publicized incidents like the Kenneth Arnold...
I’ve had a passion for found-footage ever since I first laid eyes on The Blair Witch Project. I don’t think there’s any other sub-genre out there...
I adore the Resident Evil franchise to death, but the series is so obsessed with its own convoluted mythology that piecing together a coherent backstory can...
I have a confession to make. While I’m a huge Scream fan, owning all of the movies and even having crafted a homemade Ghostface costume for...
I’ve been thinking a lot about Silent Hill 4: The Room, lately. While I agree that Silent Hill 2 is an objectively better game, and that...
As we steadily approach the ninth console generation, it’s clear that gaming technology has come a long way since the bit-wars and limited storage space of...
Despite their popularity, exorcism movies are extremely difficult to pull off. Not only are there religious issues that have to be carefully dealt with in order...
There are actually a lot more Predator games than most people seem to realize. It’s not that surprising once you consider that the titular creature has...
Since the very dawn of gaming, titles based on pre-existing IPs have bet on the popularity of famous franchises in order to boost sales and attract...
Based on the Hit Film is a series of articles looking at the video game spin-offs and adaptations of popular horror and genre movies. The Slasher...
Due to the highly collaborative and increasingly technical nature of game development, we don’t see that many auteur directors in the industry, especially where AAA titles...
While Found-Footage films are no longer raking in at the box-office like the good-old-days, you can’t deny the impact that this humble little sub-genre has had...
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