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.
The 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... 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 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.
Feature Excerpt Mother Loves You: Monstrous Parenthood in Amnesia: Rebirth By Emma Kostopolus • July 27th, 2021 There’s a deeper, more metatextual horror to Amnesia: Rebirth.
Rookie of the Year 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 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 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.
Your Future is Metal: The Industrial Nightmares of Shinya Tsukamoto By Orrin Grey • August 25th, 2020 It’s all happening at ten thousand miles per hour.
Rookie of the Year Dark’s Last Supper By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2020 The show’s final scene is a world unto itself, which is why Matt’s assembled a timestamped breakdown of whatever the hell that was.
Feature Excerpt Maternal Legacies By Emma Kostopolus • July 30th, 2020 Death Stranding doesn’t erase motherhood: it is, in several important ways, defined by it.
Rookie of the Year America is Under the Dome By Matt Marrone • July 8th, 2020 Watching what feels like an endless newsfeed of new acts of police brutality every day, Matt can feel the Dome closing in.
Bloodlines We’re Not Alone in the Shadows By David Shimomura • June 8th, 2020 Horror director David Sandberg returns to his short film roots to tap pandemic anxieties.
I Played It, Like, Twice… Well, We Warned You: Playing Horrified During a Pandemic By Orrin Grey • May 22nd, 2020 Everything about Horrified echoes the Universal films in ways that will make fans of the original monster franchises grin.
There is no Why, Only Escape By Levi Rubeck • May 14th, 2020 GTFO is a brutal, unforgiving, and niche experience.
Feature Excerpt Carrington’s Dreamscape By Daniel Lipscombe • April 2nd, 2020 Videogames, especially those of the horror variety, could seriously stand to take a leaf from surrealism’s book.
No Faith Without Blood: The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • March 20th, 2020 It’s barely a spoiler to say that this all ends, as it inevitably must, with a literally burning bed and a homicidally crazed Brendan Fraser, painted red and wearing a barbed wire shirt.
Exploits Feature The Male Gaze is What’s Wrong with CATS, Actually By Violet Adele Bloch • March 2nd, 2020 “Apparently, as he was making his latest film, Tom Hooper thought a lot about fucking these cats. But only the female ones.”
The Smell of the Rooms Terrifies Me – and Lures Me On: The House by the Cemetery on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • February 24th, 2020 If you don’t like horror movies, House by the Cemetery isn’t the flick that’s going to change your mind.
Revving the Engine Dead Static Drive: A Dark and Winding Road By Stu Horvath • February 5th, 2020 “I didn’t ever feel like I sought out horror so much as people brought it to me.”
Exploits Feature The Outsider By Stu Horvath • February 3rd, 2020 The strange case of two Holly Gibneys.
The Tide Pulls at My Heart: Night Tide (1961) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • February 3rd, 2020 Dreamy, desolate and drunk on its particular place in both space and time, Night Tide is a film like no other.
Cobwebs By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 27th, 2020 This week, we chat with Adam Vass and Sally Cantirino about Cobwebs, their forthcoming storytelling RPG about conspiracies and dark secrets.
We Drilled Too Deep: Underwater (2020) By Orrin Grey • January 13th, 2020 If Underwater is cosmic horror, it’s from the point of view of someone who gets swept up in the devastation but never really knows the greater implications.
Collision Detection How I Learned to Stop Worrying (And Love Being Horrified) By Ben Sailer • November 11th, 2019 Ben hasn’t felt frightened by a game since playing the original Resident Evil two decades ago. However, a brisk run through Outlast changed that, and in the process, helped him rekindle a long-lost love for being scared shitless.
This Mortal Coyle Alice from American McGee’s Alice By Deirdre Coyle • November 8th, 2019 American McGee’s series seemed like a natural extension of Deirdre’s lifelong Alice in Wonderland obsession.
