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‘The Exorcist: Believer’ – How the New Movie Takes a Modern Approach to a Theological Horror Classic

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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for The Exorcist and The Exorcist: Believer. Before William Friedkin’s The Exorcist shook movie theaters across the country, a novel of the same name took the literary world by storm. William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist follows single mother and actress Chris MacNeil who watches in horror as her twelve-year-old […]

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‘Pet Sematary: Bloodlines’ – How New Movie Brings Ludlow’s Dark History and King’s Untold Chapter to Life

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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Pet Sematary (2019) and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023).  In the Master of Horror’s vast collection, few stories cast a shadow so dark as Pet Sematary. Stephen King’s 1983 novel follows Louis Creed and his young family as they fall victim to the grim shadow of death lurking in […]

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‘The Boogeyman’ – Comparing Rob Savage’s Horror Movie to Stephen King’s Horror Story

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The following contains major spoilers for The Boogeyman (2023). Early Stephen King short stories have a particular kind of grit. Often called Vintage King, the twenty dark tales in the author’s first collection, Night Shift, vary wildly in subject matter and tone but nearly all convey a distinct nihilism and end with a shocking stinger […]

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