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The podcast icon for The Magnus Archives which features the title text in green over black with splintering lines like cracking glass

The Magnus Archive: Stretching Your Mind to the Darkest Corners

By Kevin Capon Goldszmidt • February 28th, 2025

The show expertly weaves through a wide range of horror genres, ensuring that sooner or later, it will find your weak spot.

A screenshot from the trailer for Red Rooms featuring an all white courtroom with multiple screens showing the faces of three female victims, as well as a judge, lawyers, and a jury

I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession

By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024

How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?

A screenshot from the trailer for Maxxxine with the title of the movie front and center in a commanding sans-serif typeface

Maybe They Should Save Themselves: Maxxxine (2024) as Middle Finger

By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2024

I think that Maxxxine really believes that it has something to say in all those theme-heavy monologues

Brindlewood Bay

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 26th, 2024

Get cozy!

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.

Screenshot from the trailer for Night has A Thousand Eyes, featuring the main character in a suit walking back from an attic window looking over a city at night

The Stars Can’t Hurt You: Fighting the Future in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

By Orrin Grey • August 24th, 2023

Even if you’re pretty sure you know going in – it is difficult, after all, to not have been spoiled at least a little bit on a movie that is three-quarters of a century old – the unspooling of the film does a good job of keeping you on your toes,

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Close-up of the cover for Scooby-Doo The Board Game with the whole gang sitting in the front of the Mystery Machine van. From left to right we have beatnik poet, anxious dog, rational map-reader, equally smart friend, and ascot driver

Wacky Hijinks: Similarities and Differences in Scooby-Doo: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • July 6th, 2023

It is also ironic that, in many ways, Scooby-Doo: The Board Game feels less like Scooby-Doo and more like a board game than Betrayal at Mystery Mansion, which was already repurposing the mechanics of another game and yet managed, in so doing, to create an almost perfect evocation of a Scooby-Doo episode.

Rookie of the Year
Rows of weathered headstones in a cemetery.

Things I’ve Learned About Being on the Board of a Cemetery Because I’m Getting Someone Else’s Email

By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2021

Somewhere, “Natt Narrone” is on the board of a cemetery and has been missing important emails.

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