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Cycle of the Werewolf

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 29th, 2023

It must be a full moon tonight.

A still from the trailer of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, where the three young adults are dressed in their 70s weirdo finest, in front of some wood paneled walls, caressing a corpse and laughing at their hijinks

It’s a Boneyard: Revisiting Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) on 4K

By Orrin Grey • January 19th, 2023

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is a fairly accurate portrait of what macabre weirdos like us got up to – or imagined ourselves getting up to – in the days before we had the internet to distract us.

screenshot from Nightmare at noon, with four characters hiding out in a starkly lit police office. A giant framed collection of patched leans against the wall, while the officers lean on various bits of furniture and look forlorn

Meat and Potatoes Country: Nightmare at Noon (1988) on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2022

To an enormous extent, your enjoyment of (and even tolerance for) Nightmare at Noon will rely largely on how much affection you have for these actors, since they’re the beating heart of the film.

Letter from the Editor
A selection from the cover art for Unwinnable Monthly #158, featuring several gremlins from the movie Gremlins grinning at the viewer.

Unwinnable Monthly – December 2022

By David Shimomura • December 15th, 2022

Welcome to the Gremlins issue! But before you dig in, there are some rules that you’ve got to follow…

Exploits Feature

My Least Favorite C-Word

By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022

Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.

Cadabra Records

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 28th, 2022

Classic horror tales on vinyl!

Always Autumn
A still from the internet phenomenon "Too Many Cooks" showing the recurring serial killer character in a 1980s kitchen with a bloodied face and apron.

There are Decapitations

By Autumn Wright • November 10th, 2022

Too Many Cooks is at once an absurdist comedy sketch and a critical cautionary tale, full of pastiche referents like “relics of a time that we long for but shouldn’t return to.”

Run It Back

1943

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 26th, 2022

How do you see that the world is bigger and more full of mystery than you had ever imagined and yet still your purest impulse continues to be to subjugate?

Eyeing Elsewhere
Hellraiser's Female Cenobite, Pinhead, and Butterball stand in front of starkly back-lit binds.

On Monsters and Ourselves

By Phillip Russell • October 25th, 2022

Hell in the Hellraiser universe reflects back to others what they struggle with the most. It’s a fluid space that changes as our own sense of self does.

Feature Story
A painting of the many-headed King Ghidorah surrounded by a hazy orange glow. The three heads are roaring into the sky.

Monstrous

By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022

Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.

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