Growing up, my Halloween experience wasn’t complete without ghost stories. Long before I could get my hands on horror movies, my Halloween thrills were largely found in books. Little did the parentals know, these books of mine were just as, if not more, scary than the movies I watched, at least to a little kid […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It, It: Chapter Two, and It: Welcome to Derry. Many Constant Readers believe that, despite publishing more than eighty titles in the last fifty years, Stephen King is actually writing a single, massive novel. His sprawling worlds may twist through a multitude of dimensions, but many of his […]
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As a franchise, Silent Hill has been starved of fresh ideas for the better part of two decades. Sure, the most surface-level elements might have changed between entries. Shattered Memories, for instance, made the radical decision to substitute the town’s perpetual fog bank for a snowy blizzard, while Downpour took an even bolder leap and […]
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With Shelby Oaks, writer/director Chris Stuckmann made the leap from YouTube to theatrical film. But his feature directorial debut, which is now playing in theaters, doesn’t look the same as it did when it played the festival circuit in 2024. Shelby Oaks follows Mia (Camille Sullivan), a woman who has been obsessively searching for her […]
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Nothing says fall, especially the Halloween season, quite like a great witch movie. One of the best is the cult film Night of the Eagle (1962), perhaps better known under its American release title, Burn Witch, Burn. Based on one of the seminal horror novels of the twentieth century, the film explores the nature of […]
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One of the scariest titles haunting Netflix’s streaming library isn’t a movie, but a French TV series that was canceled after one season. Before Cobweb, director Samuel Bodin delivered pure nightmare fuel with the ultra-creepy French series Marianne. Marianne followed successful author Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois) as she’s forced to return home to confront […]
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Though he’s best known for introducing goth aesthetics to suburbia (as well as making mainstream audiences take Batman seriously again), Tim Burton got his start in the industry as an apprentice animator recruited by Disney right out of CalArts. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before Burton’s peculiar style and penchant for […]
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The Disney Channel series So Weird (1999–2001) was “gateway horror“ for its many young viewers—a diluted taste of the horror genre before moving on to the full-strength stuff. Yet, looking back, bizarre phenomena and things that go bump in the night weren’t what set So Weird apart from its contemporaries and successors. The difference-maker was […]
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Black Phone 2 is a scarier and more successful sequel, but its reinvention of the Grabber into a supernatural entity helps him become a modern Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Blumhouse has made not just waves, but full-on tsunamis, when it comes to their impact on the horror genre. Over the past 15 years, Blumhouse […]
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Tubi, like many streaming platforms this month, is rolling out the red carpet for horror with curated “Terror on Tubi” programming. Though robust, horror fans know that it only scratches the surface of Tubi’s deep, obscure well of programming and library selections. There’s a wealth of deep cuts and Halloween horror movies lurking on the […]
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I have a vivid memory of watching The Hand That Rocks the Cradle when I was no more than six or seven. I recall being absolutely enthralled—not necessarily by the story, but the imagery reeled me in. It left an indelible mark on my brain; that’s probably why I’m drawn to psychological thrillers so much. […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Black Phone and Black Phone 2. If Gen X has a boogeyman, it’s arguably the Man in the Windowless Van. Alongside memories of blissfully roaming unsupervised suburbs are warnings to avoid anyone in this particular vehicle lest you wind up on the side of a milk carton. […]
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Thanks to the endearing appeal of retro gaming, and the fact that Nintendo is still very much around, it’s hard to believe in some ways that the Nintendo Entertainment System is now 40 years old. It’s even harder to believe that the video games industry in North America was on the brink when Nintendo decided […]
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is, without a doubt, my most anticipated movie of the year. I simply cannot think of a more perfect marriage of filmmaker and subject. Like Del Toro, my fascination with the mad doctor and especially his creation has been a lifelong obsession. Over the past few years, I have taken on […]
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The normalization of hate-watching and the ironic consumption of media has done untold damage to my generation’s relationship with film. While getting a few friends together and riffing on old Gamera movies isn’t inherently bad, terms like “guilty pleasure” and “so bad it’s good” have made some folks forget that movies don’t have to […]
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