Slasher movies as a genre may have their origins in the ‘70s, but tales of ill-fated characters being hunted down by maniacal antagonists as if they...
Genre fans have been absolutely spoiled these past few years when it comes to retro survival horror experiences. From the combat-heavy modernization of Silent Hill F...
An unexpected image and a loud noise are all you really need to briefly scare an audience, but it takes an especially skilled filmmaker to come...
One of the biggest hurdles that found footage filmmakers have to face is the fact that we live in a post-The Blair Witch Project society where...
Not all movies are meant to be enjoyed in the exact same way. The way I see it, it’s the viewers’ responsibility to adjust their headspace...
I’m a sucker for a good paranormal investigation. From the Harry D’Amour stories to Hellboy and even The X-Files, applying procedural detective work to the supernatural...
It’s obvious why some recurring horror tropes are so popular if you really think about why they exist in the first place. For instance, Final Girls...
With general audiences becoming more receptive to animation as an art form rather than a means of marketing toys to kids, “mature” cartoons are a dime...
For the longest time, I didn’t really get fan films. While I can understand loving a franchise so much that you want to be an official...
Spoiler Warning: the following article contains major plot details for Bodycam, which is now available to stream on Shudder. Ideas evolve over time, and horror fans...
I recently came across a Tweet (or is it a Xeet?) comparing Maggie Gyllenhaal’s controversial The Bride! to the direct-to-video Hellraiser sequels because of the recent...
In this current media landscape, where it seems like new genre shows are released every single day, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that there was once...
Every game genre starts out as a single title with a unique gameplay loop that unintentionally inspires a trend. Hell, back in the day, first-person shooters...
The tragedy of the short film is that, while it’s a necessary step in a filmmaker’s journey towards producing bigger projects (with these movies often requiring...
Humanity has always had a fascination with trying to unravel the mysteries of nature through narrativization, and that’s why I think it was inevitable that storytellers...
No matter how much the corporate rights holders might try to keep a story or a character to themselves, once an idea reaches critical mass, it...
It’s easy to take the accessibility of movies for granted now that we live in a high-tech world populated by streaming giants and cheap video-on-demand. However,...
There’s a popular interview where David Bowie is explaining how the internet is going to revolutionize media and ends up describing the web as “an alien...
Even three months after its release, I still find myself shocked at the sheer level of survival horror mastery that Sam Prebble and Trigger Happy Interactive...
It’s hard to overstate the impact of Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong. What began as a passion project inspired by tales of real-life encounters with Komodo...
In most cases, boss battles are meant to be a test of the players’ skills and evaluate just how much they’ve learned from interacting with the...
The haunted house story is one of the oldest narrative formulas in horror, so it stands to reason that it’s also one of the hardest sub-genres...
It makes sense that human beings evolved to find comfort in the familiar. After all, if something is familiar, it can be predicted – and if...
Warhammer 40,000 may not have invented the Grimdark genre, as one could argue that writers like Michael Moorcock have been planting the seeds for these mean-spirited...
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