I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024 How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?
I Played It, Like, Twice... Mad About Underworlds: In This Case, I Mean Mad as in Angry By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2024 The Warhammer: Underworlds warbands have a level of personality that larger armies simply can’t, with each individual model given a name, special rules, and some character that help it to pop.
Maybe They Should Save Themselves: Maxxxine (2024) as Middle Finger By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2024 I think that Maxxxine really believes that it has something to say in all those theme-heavy monologues
Personal Items Work Best: Oddity (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 31st, 2024 Oddity is an extremely slow burn, though it keeps elements of eeriness and dread close at hand.
Feature Story Nothing But Respect for My President Whipped Crème By Orrin Grey • October 25th, 2024 Does each peak hold beautifully from kitchen to plate, as the can promises? Is it sure to impress? Will it make my family love me?
I Played It, Like, Twice... Midnight in the Garden of Goo: Going Haunting with Bump in the Night By Orrin Grey • October 22nd, 2024 There’s an odd sense that, somehow, what we’re pulling from are more weirdo Italian movies like Ghosthouse than more standard haunted house fare.
I Played It, Like, Twice Everyone’s Heard the Stories: Dungeon Crawling in the Haunted Heartland with The Ghosts Betwixt By Orrin Grey • October 8th, 2024 The Ghosts Betwixt takes a cue from Stranger Things to tell a story set in the “1990s haunted heartland”
You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024 One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.
Funeral Rites Getting Lost in the Melodious World of the Ballads of Oræd By Orrin Grey • September 27th, 2024 On the table next to the candle is a book that you don’t remember seeing before. The book itself feels at once familiar and strange, as though you have read it before, perhaps in a dream. The title is Ballads of Oræd.
No Gods, No Masters: When Titans Ruled Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • September 20th, 2024 Clash of the Titans came out during the baffling moment when Sam Worthington was being cast as the lead in everything.