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Here Be Monsters
Art from Cult of the Lamb shows a cloaked lamb levitating above a pentacle as several other woodland creatures gaze at the scene reverantly.

Feeding the Cartoon Gators: Cult of the Lamb and Moral Disengagement

By Emma Kostopolus • May 30th, 2025

Everybody has some angry, sad, anxious and ultimately violent shit they want to work out.

A cropped screenshot from FEAR in a dimly lit room with a gun pointed at a closed door and a whole lot of tension

What’s A Gun For?

By Wallace Truesdale • May 6th, 2025

Guns bring violence, and violence is frightfully unpredictable.

Funeral Rites
An illustration of a blond woman unlocking her front door. Via a cross section of the house, we can see horrors have been wrought across her downstairs living room by a tentacled creature making its way upstairs.

No Magic, No Gods: Infinite Worlds & Infinite Horrors

By Emma Kostopolus • April 29th, 2025

“Create stories. Create art. Create music. Anything and everything you create yourself has value and the more of it exists, the better off we all are.”

A screenshot from Amnesia: The Bunker in a hellish red tunnel surrounded by cages and nets and two hands wrapped in bandages pulling the pin out of a grenade

I Want More Historical Horror

By J.M. Henson • April 9th, 2025

We cannot lose sight of the fact that our shared past is directly connected to our shared fears.

A screenshot from the movie Trick or Treat featuring a closeup of the demonic metal singer's face behind a microphone but staring darkly at the viewer

Rock’s Chosen Warriors Will Rule the Apocalypse: Trick or Treat (1986) on 4K

By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2025

Rumor has it that both Gene Simmons and Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. were offered the role of Sammi Curr.

A screenshot from the trailer for The Cell featuring Jennifer Lopez in heavy eyeliner and a killer red lip and a huge red hood and a single tear falling down her cheek

A Very Twisted Kingdom: The Cell (2000) Twenty-Five Years Later

By Orrin Grey • February 3rd, 2025

Is there anything under all the artistic lifting and stylistic indulgences?

A drawing of Kiri from The Tower audio drama, drawn entirely in purple shades a hooded woman looks up with a hopeful smile on her face

Into the Unknown: An Audio Drama Journey Through the Self and The Tower

By Kevin Capon Goldszmidt • December 20th, 2024

You and I might listen to the same show, but we’ll imagine things a little differently.

A screenshot from the trailer for Red Rooms featuring an all white courtroom with multiple screens showing the faces of three female victims, as well as a judge, lawyers, and a jury

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?

A screenshot from the trailer for Maxxxine with the title of the movie front and center in a commanding sans-serif typeface

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

A screenshot from the Trailer of Oddity featuring the title of the movie in dark shades of green

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.

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