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Seeing Red Again: An Appreciation of Horror’s Greatest Visual Storytelling Tool

Matt Donato 47 Meters Down, Belzebuth, Crawl, Editorials, Evil Dead, Lights Out, Movies, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the descent

Frantic campers scavenge a park ranger’s rucksack inside his abandoned jeep. A shipwrecked sailor drags their waterproof emergency kit ashore. Apocalypse survivors raid a hardware depot after zombies chase civilization far away. Three different horror movie scenarios, all adding a holy grail item to whichever characters’ arsenal. Maybe loaded into a chamber, possibly as a […]

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The Six Scariest Shark Moments in Horror

Meagan Navarro 47 Meters Down, deep blue sea, Jaws, Open Water, Sponsored, The Reef, The Reef: Stalked, The Shallows

What’s summer without shark horror? The official sequel to Andrew Traucki’s The Reef, The Reef: Stalked is now available on Digital/VOD and streaming on Shudder. Written and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water) as a follow-up to his 2010 film, The Reef: Stalked stars Teressa Liane (“The Vampire Diaries”), Ann Truong (“Cowboy Bebop”), Saskia Archer (Boshack), Kate Lister (“Clickbait”) and Tim Ross (“Wonderland”). In the sequel: “Nic, in an effort to […]

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When ‘The Power’ Goes Out: 10 of the Scariest Scenes in Horror That Take Place in the Dark

Meagan Navarro 47 Meters Down, Alien, Cloverfield, Hell House LLC, Lake Mungo, Lights Out, REC, Sponsored, The Conjuring, the descent, The Power

Corinna Faith’s supernatural chiller, The Power, takes place in 1974 London when mandated blackouts plunged the city into darkness every night. It’s the worst-case scenario for Val (Rose Williams), a young nurse starting her very first night shift in an old hospital that’s mid-relocation. Trying to navigate the unfamiliar labyrinthine corridors at night, save for a lantern […]

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Stay Home, Watch Horror: 5 Claustrophobic Horror Movies to Stream This Week

Meagan Navarro 47 Meters Down, 4x4, As Above So Below, blair witch, Buried, Editorials, Movies

One tried and true method of compounding the horror of a scenario while inducing a visceral viewer response is to create a claustrophobic atmosphere. Confined spaces trap characters in place with their threat, ramping up the tension to an uncomfortable degree. Effective use of those small spaces can evoke claustrophobia even in those that don’t […]

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