Category: Horror

The American Culture of Horror: Dead Space

By Stu Horvath • January 28th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror comes to an end with a look at the Dead Space videogame franchise and our Special Relationship with the United Kingdom.

The American Culture of Horror: Three Things

By Stu Horvath • January 27th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror continues with an examination of the John W. Campbell story Who Goes There? and John Carpenter’s 1981 remake The Thing.

The American Culture of Horror: Folklore and Stephen King

By Stu Horvath • January 26th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror continues with our native folklore, our desire to reinterpret and the work of our current grand master, Stephen King.

The American Culture of Horror: Isolation and the Loss of Self

By Stu Horvath • January 25th, 2011

Unwinnable investigates American Horror. Every culture has its own particular fears – for America, it is isolation and the loss of self.

You Heard it Here First

By Stu Horvath • December 8th, 2010

Unwinnable thinks it knows what Jenner whispered to Rick at the end of the Walking Dead season finale on AMC.

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare is Brilliantly Bloody

By Michael Sheridan • December 8th, 2010

Michael Sheridan didn’t have a chance of resisting the silly awesomeness of Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.

Zombies and Laboratories Don’t Mix

By Stu Horvath • December 6th, 2010

AMC’s The Walking Dead narrowly avoids disaster in a season finale set in a scientific facility – the kiss of death for a zombie story.

Dead Set On Zombies

By Kenneth J. Lucas • November 21st, 2010

Ken Lucas looks at the predecessor of The Walking Dead, the UK’s Dead Set. He also reminisces about bootleg DVDs at horror conventions.

Zombies Around the World

By Kurt Christenson • November 16th, 2010

Kurt Christenson takes a look at Tokyo Zombie and his other favorite international zombie movies: [REC], Undead, Shaun of the Dead and Dead Snow.

Unwinnable’s Halloween Recap

By Ian Gonzales • November 1st, 2010

Team Unwinnable’s Chuck Moran and Ian Gonzales went to the Chiller Theatre after party and encountered a new blend of Nigthmare Fuel

What makes a horror movie good? You could say a lot of it has to do with plot, cinematography and direction. However, many of the iconic moments in classic horror movies are related to the music. At the heart of it, music is effective at evoking moods, and the mood of horror classics like The Exorcist, Halloween, or even Jaws would’ve been completely different were it not for Mike Oldfield, John Carpenter and John Williams.