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.
The Hubris of Immortality in Haunting Ground By Charalambos Papoutsis • December 4th, 2024 Azoth would, therefore, appear to be an allegory for Fiona’s womb, but this is a red herring.
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?
Personal Items Work Best: Oddity (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 31st, 2024 Oddity is an extremely slow burn, though it keeps elements of eeriness and dread close at hand.
You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024 One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Chimeras and Changelings in Cuckoo (2024) and Longlegs (2024) By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2024 Perhaps there’s something going on here; a thematic resonance, a moment in the zeitgeist, that will be teased out with the passage of time, subsequent viewings, and the work of other scholars.
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.
Rebuilding Derceto with Alone in the Dark’s Developers By Elijah Beahm • April 18th, 2024 “In the horror genre, it’s key to make everything feel grounded in the world you’re creating. How all details must feel as a natural part of the environment, no object is there purely by accident; it has its own story to tell.”
Here Be Monsters In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024 Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.
This Town Needs Me: It’s a Wonderful Knife (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 20th, 2023 This is a film where the plot and performances are more stylized than the shooting and, as a result, is a disjointed, tonal mess.
