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.
Exploits Feature Horror and Human Frailty By Michael Caruso • October 1st, 2024 Accept the reality of your mortality, for better or for worse.
“Abigail, Don’t You Think I Know What You’ve Done?” By Orrin Grey • September 9th, 2024 Even without its marketing campaign sweeping any legs it might ever have possessed out from under it, however, Abigail was never destined to be any great shakes.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Chimeras and Changelings in Cuckoo (2024) and Longlegs (2024) By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2024 Perhaps there’s something going on here; a thematic resonance, a moment in the zeitgeist, that will be teased out with the passage of time, subsequent viewings, and the work of other scholars.
I Played It, Like, Twice... The Monster Race: Simple Times with the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2024 When it comes to comparing the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game to any of the other Scooby-Doo games we’ve covered here, there’s really no comparison at all.
Uninvited and Unseen: Two Chilly Classics of the 1940s on Blu-ray Together By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2024 The success of The Uninvited hangs in the air around Lewis Allen’s 1945 follow-up, The Unseen.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Coded Capers: Counting Clues in Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion By Orrin Grey • May 15th, 2024 The moment seems ripe for an escape room-style Scooby-Doo game like this, as the show feels poised in the cultural zeitgeist right now.
Noise Complaint My Google Home is Cursed: A Cosmic Horror Story By Ben Sailer • April 24th, 2024 When Ben’s smart speaker refuses to play music from specific artists, he begins to believe it’s cursed. Could his delusions of demonic possession be true?
