As a life-long fan of Found Footage, I’ve learned that the genre is usually at its best when divorced from the over-the-top narratives that we...
Nihilism has always had a place in horror. As Stephen King himself once said, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us,...
Unlike the average offering of found-footage filmmaking, Joel Anderson’s debut Lake Mungo limits the amateur aesthetic now deemed a signature of this genre. The characters aren’t...
We’re all afraid of ghosts to some extent. Not only do these spectral creatures somehow exist outside the laws of rational reality, they embody the ever...
As a veteran of what we now call the “old internet,” I remember a time when the scariest media you could find online consisted of seemingly...
Warning: Major spoilers for the following films abound. Few experiences unite people from all walks of life like a fear of the dark. Often surpassing specific...
Haunted houses tend to adhere to a familiar formula. Characters get terrorized by paranormal activity within their home or current dwelling, and fleeing rarely is as...
Corinna Faith’s supernatural chiller, The Power, takes place in 1974 London when mandated blackouts plunged the city into darkness every night. It’s the worst-case scenario for Val (Rose...
A precursory Google search for Howard’s Mill leads to related searches from those asking whether Shannon Houchins and Kaiser Whitmire’s feature is real or a true story. The documentary-style thriller blurs...
Horror movies put their characters through the wringer. Protagonists face their greatest fears and tend to come out alive but profoundly transformed by the trauma they...
Found footage gets a bad rap. After the sleeper success of The Blair Witch Project, which proved just how profitable a micro-budgeted horror film shot in this...
Haunted houses are a standard in horror for a reason. Inhabiting a space where the disembodied spirits of the deceased comes with compounded fears. It’s not...
Look-alikes, doubles, or doppelgangers are a common trope in horror. There’s the Jekyll and Hyde dichotomy, that pits an evil side against a good one, and...
*mild spoilers for Lake Mungo below* Grief and horror are often thought of as strange bedfellows. Grief is what comes after horror, when we begin to...
There are no shortages of haunted house horror movies, a major horror sub-genre. Paranormal horror makes for some of the spookiest, timeless horror features. The creaky...
In an effort to shine some light on the people who make the darkness, this article is the first in a continuing series about great filmmakers,...
Stand back, because I’m about to bust open Pandora’s Box and unleash hell by addressing a touchy topic among horror fans – that being the popular...
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