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I Played It, Like, Twice...
A crop of the cover for the game Bump in the Night where a terrified child cowers under the blankets while skeletal death hovers above them

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
A picture of The Ghosts Betwixt on the table with a colorful map of a house full of tiles with baseball bat swinger, slingshot dead eye, golf homie, and baddies with kitchen weapons and stained clothes

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”

A screenshot from The Substance with Demi Moore staring into a mirror with bold red lipstick and a red dress, gold earrings, and an intense look on her face

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.

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Horror and Human Frailty

By Michael Caruso • October 1st, 2024

Accept the reality of your mortality, for better or for worse.

A screenshot from the trailer of Abigail where a masked woman and a young girl in a ballerina outfit are sitting in a dimly lit bedroom, about to make a pinky swear

“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.

a screenshot from the trailer of Cuckoo with a woman in a blue jacket reflected in a window where someone in a red dress, a guy with a fancy watch and stubble, and a cowboy dad with a fist in the air look on

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...
A closeup of the board for Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed, with a purple layout, comic drawing of the control room, bats, and skulls with peace symbols for eyes for some resaon

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.

A crop of the box for the double feature The Unseen and the Uninvited, with an art deco painting mostly in shades of green with a man in a suit holding an unconscious woman while in the background a face with wide eyes stares and a shadow lurks

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...
A close up look at some of the cards in Scooby Doo Escape from the Haunted Mansion, featuring portraits from Fred, Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, and the other investigator but her name is cut off and I can't remember it at the moment

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
An extremely glitched closeup of the knot of a man's polka-dotted tie, an image with the air corrupted spy cam footage.

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?

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