Today’s a Good Day to Die: Reliving the Past with Flatliners (1990) By Orrin Grey • August 9th, 2022 It’s no surprise that Schumacher made the campiest of Batman movies, because there’s an extravagance to the production design here that would have been right at home in Burton’s Gotham City.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Fragged!: Translating DOOM to the Tabletop via a Somewhat Unlikely Route By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2022 Despite the box art and the demonic miniatures, DOOM is fundamentally an action game that isn’t particularly interested in horror.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – July 2022 By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2022 We ripped and tore and this is what was done.
Strange Things Happen There: Two Early Mexican Horrors By Orrin Grey • May 17th, 2022 A piece of history – not merely Mexican cinematic history, not merely horror history, but a broader snapshot of a period in time, and the changes that were happening around it.
I Played It, Like, Twice... We Did Warn You: Playing Horrified 2 During [checks notes] Still a Pandemic By Orrin Grey • May 5th, 2022 The good news is, most of the winning formula that made its predecessor tick is reproduced nicely here.
I Played It, Like, Twice... They’re Coming Out of the Goddamn Walls: Reliving a Moment with Space Hulk By Orrin Grey • February 28th, 2022 It is difficult, for me at least, to separate the game itself from that dream, solidified by glossy magazine photos of massive Space Hulk boards set up.
A Dangerous Dream: Revisiting Mill of the Stone Women (1960) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2021 “Trouble began with a woman…”
Alien Post-Mortem By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 13th, 2021 Who survived? What was left of them? Well, that would be telling.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Five: Halloween Horrors By Team Unwinnable • October 29th, 2021 For the final week of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store, the gang offers up their favorite flicks that take place on the actual day.
A Dark, Dank Death: Blind Beast (1969) on Blu-ray at Last By Orrin Grey • October 28th, 2021 Blind Beast is a film that I had been meaning to watch for decades, ever since I worked in a video store.
Feature Excerpt A World Beyond: The Inadvertent Sci-Fi of Universal’s Original Mummy Sequels By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2021 If you think about it, mummies are the original time travelers.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Four: Classic Creeps By Team Unwinnable • October 22nd, 2021 It’s Week Four of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store! This week we go back to our horror roots with the gang’s favorite classics.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2021 By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2021 Welcome to the Spoopy Issue!
Impossible Landscapes By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 18th, 2021 You better sure as hell hope you haven’t seen the Yellow Sign.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Three: Haunted Houses By Team Unwinnable • October 15th, 2021 It’s Week three of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store! This week, Orrin Grey has the gang pull Haunted House movies out of the rafters!
Kult By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 11th, 2021 We have such sights to show you. Wait, no, wrong horror franchise.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Two: Mythos Monsters By Team Unwinnable • October 8th, 2021 Week two of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store is upon us! This week, Orrin Grey has the gang pull Cthulhu Mythos movies down from the shelf!
Exploits Feature “The Call of Cthulhu” By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2021 There are a million ways to read “The Call of Cthulhu,” but this one sure is the prettiest.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week One: Sinister Slashers By Team Unwinnable • October 1st, 2021 Join us as your host, noted skeleton Orrin Grey, guides you through five weeks of horror film recommendations from Team Unwinnable.
Alien By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 20th, 2021 In space, no one can hear you make your Panic roll.
Burnt Offering Notes on a Train Trip By Stu Horvath • September 16th, 2021 In Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express the journey is your final destination.
Horror on the Orient Express Post-Mortem By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 6th, 2021 Choo-choo! One year, three months and eight corpses later, and Stu’s run of Horror on the Orient Express is over.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Candles Against the Dark: Surviving the Night (and Each Other) in Deranged By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2021 A character who is Deranged is normal by day but becomes a monster by night.
Feature Excerpt The Mutated City By Zsolt David • August 17th, 2021 The world living in the husk of another.
Exploits Feature The Shadow of the Cat By Orrin Grey • August 1st, 2021 An old lady gets knocked off by her husband and servants in a relatively brutal opening, and the only witness is the cat. So far so good.
Feature Excerpt Mother Loves You: Monstrous Parenthood in Amnesia: Rebirth By Emma Kostopolus • July 27th, 2021 There’s a deeper, more metatextual horror to Amnesia: Rebirth.
Rookie of the Year To Serve Mom By Matt Marrone • June 1st, 2021 Finally, a decent use for those stickers that isn’t enticing minors!
Forms in Light Architecture and Authority By Justin Reeve • May 31st, 2021 Somewhere, someone is still really mad it’s called the “Racoon Police Department.”
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2021 By David Shimomura • May 17th, 2021 Back to a single Letter from the Editor. The one true letter.
Nick Tofani and Gradient Descent By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 3rd, 2021 In space…you’re just going to die horribly, come on, let’s be honest.
Antiracist Cosmic Horror By Noah Berlatsky • April 13th, 2021 A companion to Noah Berlatsky’s March feature story!
Feature Excerpt Eugenics from Morlock to Shoggoth: The Origins of Cosmic Racism By Noah Berlatsky • March 17th, 2021 What horror lies in the heart of men?
I Got Myself a Plan: Tremors (1990) on a Very Fancy New Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • January 22nd, 2021 When I was a kid, I had a short list of favorite monster movies that had come out during my lifetime, and Tremors was right at the top.
Traces Ghost Stories By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 23rd, 2020 In fact, you could consider it an anthology of sorts – one on my relationship with horror games, and on ghost stories. I’ll let you decide if they’re fictional or not.
I Played It, Like, Twice… Shadows on the Cave Wall: Finding Clues in Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion By Orrin Grey • October 9th, 2020 Scooby-Doo and Betrayal at House on the Hill are a match made in some kind of spooky heaven.
Geese are Scarier than Monsters By W.C. Hoag • September 15th, 2020 The creature in Carrion is really no more of a monster than Batman.
