Human Sacrifice in the Maya Culture By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • January 22nd, 2019 Notorious Narratives explores the reasons, process and necessity of human sacrifice in the Maya culture.
The Heavy Pour Get Your Kicks at the Cosmic Horrorshow: A True Story By Sara Clemens • January 9th, 2019 On a Route 66 roadtrip, Sara asks: “What am I doing in the middle of this godforsaken desert?”
You Better Watch Out By Zack Kotzer • December 20th, 2018 People are crazy about Christmas the same way Stadling is crazy about it, there’s just fewer murders.
Of Giallo and Gore: A Review By Orrin Grey • December 7th, 2018 Orrin Grey talks Torso and The Wizard of Gore and what the unlikely pair of ’70s horror movies have in common.
The Burnt Offering The Feels By Stu Horvath • December 3rd, 2018 What happens when a horror story tries to manifest in the real world?
The Heavy Pour Sucking Blood from the Earth By Sara Clemens • November 30th, 2018 Between the nightmare of daily news and the ethical quandaries of playing games by any triple-A developer, it’s hard to be assed to play games these days.
This Mortal Coyle The Encarta MindMaze Witch By Deirdre Coyle • November 21st, 2018 Hidden in Microsoft Encarta ’95 lies one of the foundational goths of Deirdre’s childhood.
Diary of a First-Time Dungeon Master By Levi Rubeck • November 8th, 2018 “I want to do a perception check on that guard’s butt.”
Silkscreened Horrors By Astrid Budgor • November 2nd, 2018 The horror t-shirt has become an institution.
Raw, Dog Hair and the Nervous Unreality of Pristine Images By Nic Rueben • October 31st, 2018 To portray and enforce the unachievable as normality is to enact violence upon the observer.
E-soterica A Visual Novel To Scare You Sleepless By Alyse Stanley • October 31st, 2018 It may be a classic, but Alyse still champions the uncle who works for nintendo as one of the scariest indie games out there.
Halloween 2018 is an Unwelcome Trip Down Memory Lane By David Shimomura • October 30th, 2018 We’re stuck with a sequel with a 40-year time gap where mostly the same thing happens, except one of the characters is old and paranoid.
The Bell Witch, or The Bell’s Witch: I’ve Heard It Both Ways By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • October 30th, 2018 Gather round as Notorious Narratives tells the bloodcurdling tale of the Bell Witch!
Ravenloft (1983) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 29th, 2018 To celebrate the spookiest time of the year, we’re talking Ravenloft this episode. Happy Halloween from Vintage RPG!
The Scariest Book I’ve Ever Read in My Life By Rob Rich • October 26th, 2018 Rob Rich opens up about the scariest book he’s ever read, why it’s so terrifying, and how it came from a very unlikely source.
Unwinnable Week 3 Horror Movies! By David Shimomura • October 20th, 2018 Is it still October? Then Unwinnable still has horror movie recs for y’all.
Unwinnable Week 2 Horror Movies! By Team Unwinnable • October 12th, 2018 Unwinnable’s weekly horror movie recommendations for October continues in silly, grisly and unusual fashion.
What Horror Movie Should You Watch Tonight? By Team Unwinnable • October 4th, 2018 It’s October and we know that means you want to be watching horror movies! We’ve got suggestions!
The Tale of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • October 2nd, 2018 Uncover the secrets of Pompeii in the latest episode of Notorious Narratives!
I Accidentally a Film Festival: Part Two By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2018 Orrin’s accidental home film festival wraps up, with Erik the Conqueror, My Friend Dahmer and more.
I Accidentally a Film Festival: Part One By Orrin Grey • September 28th, 2018 Orrin Grey embarks on a film festival…in his living room. Join him as he watches The Twilight People, The Ghoul and Bruce’s Deadly Fingers.
The Harmful Misconceptions Behind We Happy Few By Alyse Stanley • September 25th, 2018 Compulsion Games’ recent release rebukes psychiatric drugs in its attempt to build a commentary around them.
Rookie of the Year The Running Matt By Matt Marrone • September 25th, 2018 Matt Marrone muses where he’d escape to if faced with the dilemma of Stephen King’s The Running Man.
The Donner Party By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 25th, 2018 Chow down on a feast of facts about the Donner Party!
Masks of Nyarlathotep By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 16th, 2018 Things get dicey for the guys as the international horror conspiracy of Masks of Nyarlathotep for Call of Cthulhu threatens to swallow them whole.
This Mortal Coyle Wayward Manor By Deirdre Coyle • September 13th, 2018 Both Deirdre and the titular sentient house in Wayward Manor just want to be left alone.
The Shape of the Devil By Carl Lewandowski • August 31st, 2018 Hereditary twists gendered expectations, using gender as a tool to contribute to its disorienting, unsettling atmosphere.
Fascination Damp and Rotting By Astrid Budgor • August 17th, 2018 Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl is emblematic of a certain species of horror movie; autumnal, elliptical, vaguely about lesbians in a troublingly reactionary way, and dreadfully slow
Remothered: Tormented Fathers perpetuates horror’s harmful anti-trans stereotypes By Bryan Cebulski • August 15th, 2018 Horror about sex and gender shouldn’t be off limits. But Remothered: Tormented Fathers isn’t even about sex and gender.
Procreation of the Wicked By Astrid Budgor • August 10th, 2018 “They rip him apart as he grins, nerve-endings aflame with the liquor of pain, finally accepting an eternity of obliterative bliss.”
If the Devil Is to Exist in This World, It Cannot Look Like a Devil By Orrin Grey • July 6th, 2018 Orrin Grey digs up Toho’s “Bloodthirsty Trilogy,” three Japanese vampire films that underscore the influence of Hammer films while showcasing the potential for Japan’s horror film future.
The Burnt Offering Powers of Darkness By Stu Horvath • July 4th, 2018 DontNod’s Vampyr, creating something disappointingly human out of our the monster of our collective nightmares.
The Burnt Offering The Shadow of Lovecraft By Stu Horvath • May 22nd, 2018 It’s time to retire the word “Lovecraftian.”
Monster Closets Prey (2006) By Brock Wilbur • April 3rd, 2018 Brock revisits Prey in hopes of finding some kind of redeeming quality in its appropriation of Cherokee culture.
Feature Don’t Go In the Woods By Stu Horvath • March 23rd, 2018 Stu Horvath discusses the new horror film They Remain with director Philip Gelatt and author Laird Barron, who penned the story from which the film was adapted.
22 Years of Resident Evil By Brock Wilbur • March 22nd, 2018 Resident Evil turns 22 years old today and it still doesn’t make a goddamned lick of sense.
The Ritual Fails to Close the Circle By David Shimomura • March 6th, 2018 You can probably turn The Ritual off at the 66-minute mark.
Monster Closets The Thing By Brock Wilbur • February 7th, 2018 Brock returns to Outpost 31 and hopes man is still the warmest place to hide.
Last Week's Comics Last Week’s Comics 2/7/2018 By Michael Edwards • February 7th, 2018 Team Unwinnable’s Michael Edwards shares his thoughts on Frankenstein Alive, Alive! Trio and Justice League International Omnibus Vol. 1.
