As the long-awaited final season of Prime Video’s The Boys neared its premiere, showrunner and creator Eric Kripke warned us to expect our share of carnage. In an interview with SFX Magazine, he cautioned, “I wouldn’t get too attached to any single character.” After four seasons filled with outrageous deaths, his warning felt fairly dire. […]
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It’s no exaggeration to say that Stephen King entered the literary world with a bang. The humble writer from Portland, Maine, published his debut novel in 1974 and quickly became a household name. By 1978, he’d released five incredible books that continue to dazzle modern readers. Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, and The […]
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It’s no exaggeration to say that Stephen King entered the literary world with a bang. The humble writer from Portland, Maine, published his debut novel in 1974 and quickly became a household name. By 1978, he’d released five incredible books that continue to dazzle modern readers. Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, and The […]
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Few subgenres in horror are so maligned as the ’90s slasher. Aside from the meta-perfection of Wes Craven’s Scream, many are dismissed as toothless copycats or formulaic retreads of familiar concepts. But there’s a surprising amount of gold to mine in the last gasp of 20th-century horror. Not only are ’90s slashers usually stylish and […]
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Few subgenres in horror are so maligned as the ’90s slasher. Aside from the meta-perfection of Wes Craven’s Scream, many are dismissed as toothless copycats or formulaic retreads of familiar concepts. But there’s a surprising amount of gold to mine in the last gasp of 20th-century horror. Not only are ’90s slashers usually stylish and […]
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There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]
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There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]
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There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]
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There’s something distinctly February-coded about Satanic Horror. The shortest month of the year may be dominated by a romantic holiday, but the days themselves feel icy and cold. The twinkling lights of Christmas have long since gone out, and we’re so far away from spring that it often feels as if the sun never fully […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Jacob’s Ladder and Return to Silent Hill. On the surface, Jacob’s Ladder and the world of Silent Hill have very little in common. One is a psychological horror film about a Vietnam veteran struggling to adjust to life after war, while another is a post-apocalyptic survival horror video […]
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On July 13, 1966, Richard Speck broke into a Chicago student nurse’s dormitory and murdered eight of the women who lived inside. Only Corazon Amurao managed to survive the ordeal by hiding under a bed long enough for the intruder to forget about her. Speck was arrested several days later and eventually given the death […]
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Of the many monsters roaming the ashen realm of Silent Hill, one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Christophe Gans’ 2006 adaptation recreates the terrifying spectres found in Konami’s survival horror game, from faceless mutant nurses and cockroaches with strangely humanoid heads to the rotting corpse of a sexual predator bound with rusty barbed […]
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“Oh, Finney. You of all people know that “dead” is just a word.” What’s scarier than a sinister magician/serial child from the Stranger Danger 70s driving through town in a windowless van filled with a bunch of black balloons? Nothing. Except perhaps the same sinister magician as a rotting corpse seeking vengeance in the realm […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Stranger Things, It, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and Game of Thrones. In the end, Stranger Things remained what it has always been, a love letter to outcasts and fans of genre fiction. The show that once ignited Easter egg obsessives with a The Thing poster hanging in […]
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“You followed a step-by-step plan that killed nine people. What did you think was going to happen?” Never underestimate a hyperfixation. That obscure historical event or random theory that takes up space in our brains and keeps us from focusing on more important things. But sometimes those hyperfixations spin out of control and put our […]
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