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Category: Horror

Keifer Sutherland is sidding criss-cross-apple-sauce in a room with high arched windows and afternoon yellow light with a lone lamp for company

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.

Let Us In

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 8th, 2022

Let me outta here!

I Played It, Like, Twice...
The tite from the Doom board game (2004) cover of the rules with the mid-era cyber Doom font and the spooky Diablo font

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
A narrow view of the Doomslayer in a hallway full of dead demons with a cacodemon looming behind.

Unwinnable Monthly – July 2022

By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2022

We ripped and tore and this is what was done.

The title screen for La Llorona, with the name of the movie opaquely set over a glowering sculpture of a skull

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...
A cropped selection of the box art for Horrified: American Monsters, featuring the head of a Sasquatch and a spectral figure.

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...
figures from the game Space Hulk, blue and red, moving across a tabletop.

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 woman in a yellow dress holding a red rose.

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 Japanese woman with her head in her hands and two miscolored eyes sitting at a table in front of a wall of sculptural eyes.

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 mummy reaches for a man lying in bed.

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...
two character pieces with colored based standing on a board game surface.

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 Vault Dweller from Fallout 3 walks among the ruins of Washington DC.

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.

Revving the Engine

Watching, Watching, Watching

By Levi Rubeck • July 29th, 2021

I see you.

Feature Excerpt
Tasi sits against, a wall, illuminated by only a lantern. A massive shadow is cast behind her.

Mother Loves You: Monstrous Parenthood in Amnesia: Rebirth

By Emma Kostopolus • July 27th, 2021

There’s a deeper, more metatextual horror to Amnesia: Rebirth.

Delta Green (2016)

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 19th, 2021

Mulder and Scully this is not.

Another Look
A horned being with claws standing in the distance.

The Mountain

By Yussef Cole • July 5th, 2021

A study in isolation.

Rookie of the Year
Dorothy Turner from Servant lying on down.

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
A close up of Zagreus from Hades.

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
A poster of two people guarding against Morlocks.

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.

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