Blending fictional horrors with historical atrocities is nothing short of an arduous task. If not handled with the care it is deserving of, one that could easily feel exploitative. But from the opening moments of Red Candle Games Detention, it’s clear that the studio has gone to great pains to impart personal pieces of its […]
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“They don’t make ’em like this anymore.” Well, to be frank, they never made ’em like Army of Darkness, and given today’s stale slate of sequelizing, they ain’t gonna make ’em like this ever again. No, as years become decades, and time shifts ever further away from 1993, hindsight becomes kinder and kinder to Sam […]
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Do you like scary movies? Of course you do, you’re reading Bloody Disgusting. Jade Daniels, the teenage protagonist of Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart is a Chainsaw, likes scary movies, too. Slashers, specifically. She likes them so much that when it appears a real slasher has descended upon her small Idaho town, her reaction isn’t […]
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This is the story of The Bell Witch. The true story. In 2005, Sissy Spacek, famous for her brilliant, blood-soaked performance in DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, returned to the world of horror cinema with An American Haunting. The film was written and directed by Courtney Solomon and boasted an all-star cast including Donald […]
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Tentacle Porn (no, really). After traveling all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In, we changed up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick in Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Now we’re making our first journey to Mexico […]
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Another month, another installment of Horror Bytes, the feature where Neil and I highlight eight free bite-sized indie titles that can be completed within an hour. With these monthly roundups, Neil and I strive to find a variety of experiences that push the boundaries and perception of what small slices of horror are truly capable […]
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“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money…” Stephen King plays well with others. He’s collaborated with numerous writers, filmmakers, and innovators, but no one’s challenged him quite like Peter Straub, the writer of books like Ghost Story and Julia. Together, the pair wrote […]
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Mistress Doom. After hanging with Jesse Hooker’s crew and analyzing the AIDS allegory in Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire western Near Dark, we traveled all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In. Now we’re changing up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick: […]
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With Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn behind them and Army of Darkness just around the corner, the Halloweenies find themselves in a pretty creative sweet spot. They’re standing on a bridge between two of the most creative and surprising sequels in the horror genre. So, they thought: Wait a second, why not talk about […]
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Narrative adventure games have always lived and died by their ability to empower players with choice. In Telltale Games’ case, this empowerment far outweighs the all too common banal, “good or evil” path for a player to venture down. By giving players a variety of minor and significant stake situations, it allows every action to […]
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“Bless me”? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheeled truck at me and bounced me into nowhere for five years! When I woke up my girl was gone, my job was gone, my legs are just about useless… Blessed me? God’s been a real sport to me!” The ice is […]
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Kill Your Bullies We’ve been bouncing around the decades ever since we wrapped up our ‘Underseen or Underrated’ theme, with stops in 1960 London for Peeping Tom, 2010’s boobies and blood Piranha 3D and 1987’s Near Dark last week. Our unofficial vampire double bill continues this week with Swedish adaptation Let the Right One In, which brings us back […]
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The conversation of what constitutes “real horror” has always irked me. The notion that a horror experience is entirely reliant on its ability to scare one silly is a disservice to the narrative and gameplay potential that the genre can offer. Potential that Wolfeye Studios’ Weird West fully embraces in the most refreshingly, well, weird […]
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“SSDD. Same shit, different day…” Hello? Jonesy. Jesus Christ, I knew it was you. Where’s he taking you? Massachusetts. He is? Duddits, OK… Jonesy, I will. You hang in there. Jonesy? Jonesy. He hung up… Well, it’s back to hitchhiking for The Losers’ Club as they try to stop Mr. Gray, the big meanie behind […]
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Elisha Cuthbert returns to the horror genre in brand new Shudder Original The Cellar, which is now available to stream exclusively on the Shudder streaming service right now. Ahead of The Cellar‘s release, Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast sat down with Elisha Cuthbert to reflect on some of her past roles inside the horror […]
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