Warning: Major spoilers for the following films abound. Few experiences unite people from all walks of life like a fear of the dark. Often surpassing specific concerns of serial killers, monsters, witches, or demons, what we collectively fear most is that mysterious, dark unknown. Anything and everything could be lurking in the shadows just waiting […]
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Warning: Major spoilers for the following films abound. When asked about the most horrific time in their lives, many will shudder then say the years they spent in high school. From unpredictable acne and savage bullies to the particularly brutal pain of childhood friends growing apart, the high school halls can sometimes feel more like […]
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One of the most frightening entities in all of Hindu and Buddhist folklore is a demonic being known as the Pishacha. Also called Piśāca, this sinister breed of flesh-eating creature has been compared to the Christian Devil and is believed to be the personification of pure evil. Pishachas are parasitic creatures who sow the seeds […]
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Few events in life are as nerve-wracking as a high school reunion. While initially fun to catch up with former classmates and share perfunctory memories, old secrets and scandals always find a way of rising to the surface. Set this high-stakes rite of passage at a haunted amusement park and you’ve got the makings of […]
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“It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” How many of us grew up hearing this from parents or babysitters, then reluctantly agreed to be a little more careful? Unfortunately, that’s not an option for a trio of siblings living with their single mother in Salem, Massachusetts. On a night stuck babysitting their […]
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Caution! Major spoilers for the following novels abound! Chuck Palahniuk is a novelist who aims to unsettle. Priding himself on his disturbing verbs, the transgressive author specializes in detailing the most shocking and abhorrent sides of humanity allowing the reader to systematically strip away their fears and hopefully move towards the light. From his debut […]
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What’s the scariest creature the world has ever known? If you said the sloth, you’re not alone. Some may find these furry bundles of lethargy charming, but a closer look reveals a devious predator lurking amidst the trees just waiting to attack us with those long, blood-soaked claws. Matthew Goodhue’s Slotherhouse pits this tree-hanging menace […]
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The following contains major spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter. If the horror genre has a grandfather, it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. First published in 1897, the epistolary novel follows a group of English socialites who cross paths with a centuries-old vampire traversing the continent in search of fresh victims. From Francis Ford Coppola […]
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The following article contains major spoilers for the novels Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror and The Trench, as well as the feature films The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench. One year before Steven Spielberg made us all afraid to go into the water, Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel Jaws took the literary world by storm. […]
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The following article contains major spoilers for Cobweb. When most of us think of fairy tales, we imagine singing princesses, magical monsters and enchanted castles. We’ve been conditioned by Disney to view these stories as life lessons or tales of empowerment, but the origin of the art form is much darker. A generalized type of […]
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The following contains major spoilers for The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench. Sharksploitation movies live and die based on the strength of their bite. In order to make us afraid to go in the water, genre filmmakers usually deploy a barrage of visual and practical effects to bring to life the ocean’s most feared […]
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Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is a tough act to follow. Not only has it come to define the entire shark horror subgenre, but this aquatic adventure movie also revolutionized the concept of the summer blockbuster as we know it today. It’s difficult to understate the film’s legacy. From archetypal characterization, iconic kills, ubiquitous catch phrases, and […]
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Before the 1975 masterpiece Jaws made us all afraid to go in the water, another film presented equally terrifying footage of real underwater nightmares. Directed by Peter Gimbel, the 1971 documentary Blue Water, White Death follows a group of aquatic photographers and adventurers determined to capture the first underwater footage of Carcharodon carcharias, the mythic […]
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Ever since the 1975 horror blockbuster Jaws made us afraid to go into the water, America has had an obsession with sharks. While great whites get most of the attention, any aquatic killer with sharp teeth will usually quench our collective thirst for marine menace. In 1988, Discovery Channel launched Shark Week, a seven day […]
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Beware! Spoilers for the work of Stephen King abound. Stephen King has always been a self-referential writer. In addition to his poignant memoir On Writing and a multitude of forwards and afterwards in his Uncle Steve voice, the Master of Horror tends to inject his fiction with characters that bear a striking resemblance to his […]
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