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Category: Horror

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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.

Feature Excerpt

The Horror of the Tortured Artist

By Rachel Watts • October 24th, 2019

Both Layers of Fear games tap into the horror of what happens when artists become desperate chasing their muse.

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2019

By Stu Horvath • October 17th, 2019

It’s October, and that means the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly is full of horrors of all sorts…

I Want to Tell You a Curious Story: The Prey (1984) on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • October 15th, 2019

Despite ample opportunity, The Prey is a slasher that features neither Bigfoot nor Smokey Bear as the villain.

Pacesetter’s Chill, and an interview with Nathan D. Paoletta

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 14th, 2019

This week, we look at the 1984 horror RPG Chill, from Pacesetter Games. We also chat with Nathan D. Paoletta about his games Worldwide Wrestling and Imp of the Perverse.

2019 Spooptacular Horror Movie Recommendations, Part Two

By Team Unwinnable • October 11th, 2019

We have more horror movie recommendations for you! This time, rich people are on the menu.

The Heavy Pour

You’ll Float Too

By Sara Clemens • October 11th, 2019

Sara muses on the weirdly seductive quality of clowns. Exhibit A: Pennywise.

2019 Spooptacular Horror Movie Recommendations, Part One

By Team Unwinnable • October 4th, 2019

Unwinnable loves horror movies, so we’re picking some faves for you to check out this October.

Exploits Feature

Skeletons in the Closet

By Sara Clemens • October 1st, 2019

“There’s always a chance to win in horror; there’s always light on the horizon, however distant. We hang in; we keep fighting.”

This Mortal Coyle

The Exile from Grim Soul

By Deirdre Coyle • October 1st, 2019

Deirdre survived a lonely summer by escaping to an equally lonely game.

That’s a Recipe for Romance: The Norman J. Warren Collection

By Orrin Grey • September 23rd, 2019

Non-existent budgets, full frontal nudity, cash-in plots and five cult movies that are more interesting than they have any right to be.

Ferris Wheels and a Murder Castle: The Chicago World’s Fair and H.H. Holmes

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 4th, 2019

Jen looks at the horrible history of America’s first serial killer: H. H. Holmes.

The Blackout Club and the Perils of Being Seen

By Levi Rubeck • August 29th, 2019

Levi checks out Blackout Club and delights in the frights of being seen.

Episode 14: The Terror

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 28th, 2019

It’s back to television this week as David and Sara discuss The Terror on Unmissable!

Greed and the Need to Feed – The Story of the Colorado Cannibal, Alfred Packer

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 27th, 2019

Perhaps the only thing more powerful than greed is hunger…

Episode 12: Midsommar

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 3rd, 2019

It’s all about horror in the daylight and getting eaten by bears on this episode of Unmissable as the gang brings back Yussef Cole to talk Midsommar!

Episode 11 – Stranger Things

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 18th, 2019

Stranger Things are afoot as Sara and David talk about the third season of Netflix’s popular 80s pastiche

Now She’ll Be All Alone: The American Horror Project Volume 2

By Orrin Grey • June 28th, 2019

Arrow is doing the lord’s work by giving such loving, hi-def releases to these kinds of underseen horror films.

Call Me Billy: Creepshow’s Unsung Feminist Hero

By E.E.W. Christman • June 24th, 2019

Upon rewatching, Creepshow accidentally offers up a feminist icon.

Let’s Talk to the Dead – The Fox Sisters and the Birth of American Spiritualism

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • June 4th, 2019

We have all played with a Ouija board, but few of us truly think we are contacting the dead.

This Mortal Coyle

Catboy the Cat, and Other Familiars

By Deirdre Coyle • May 31st, 2019

Deirdre lists some of the best cat (or cat-looking, at least) familiars in pop culture.

Lovecraft Country/Ghosts of Saltmarsh

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 27th, 2019

We’ve doubled the meat this podcast, taking on the Lovecraft Country sourcebooks for Call of Cthulhu and Ghosts of Saltmarsh for 5E Dungeons & Dragons.

The Red Ghost of the Southwest

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • May 21st, 2019

This tale of demons in the night in the American Southwest has one hell of a twist, folks!

The Devil is Only Human After All

By Pascal Wagner • May 20th, 2019

Depictions of Satan fluctuate depending on the media, but they all touch a part of our subconscious.

Resurrectionists Gone Wrong: The Tale of Burke and Hare, Part 2

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • May 7th, 2019

Part 2 of the chilling saga of Burke and Hare is here!

The Heavy Pour

A Subtler Magick Filled the Air: Exploring The Sinking City

By Sara Clemens • May 7th, 2019

Traversing the flooded streets of The Sinking City left a lasting impression on Sara.

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