From Counter-Strike to Cry of Fear, some of the most innovative gaming experiences out there have their origins in the video game modding scene. After all, these communities often serve as a training ground for passionate fans-turned-developers, with even beginners being encouraged to flex their creative programming muscles by remixing existing digital playgrounds into completely […]
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“Are all monsters a hoax, or is it possible that the monsters that haunt the 21st century hide in plain sight?” Found footage and mockumentary horror films remain wildly polarizing and they’re subgenres where only the most successful or maligned releases seem to get any attention. For some horror audiences, there’s just too much of […]
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Everything is a roguelike now. We’ve got poker roguelikes, slot machine roguelikes, even Breakout has been made into a roguelike, and it seems the possibilities for the framework are endless. Morsels, the debut game from Furcula, brings a bit more of a familiar take on the action roguelike, a la Binding of Isaac or Hades, […]
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Japanese filmmaker Kenichi Ugana’s extremist satire on the pursuit of perfection will make the audience wince, but left wanting more. “Because you like chairs.” There can be an incredible comfort in watching an expert simply work their magic in their trade. “Competency porn” is a real thing, and there’s something to be said about someone […]
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Nightmares of Nature continues to find the perfect balance between entertainment and education with an engaging look into a South American jungle’s predators and prey. “Nature is full of wonder and beauty, but for the creatures who live in the wild, it’s also full of monsters…” Nightmares of Nature’s first “Cabin in the Woods” season […]
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Expansion goes awry in prequel series It: Welcome to Derry. Set 27 years before the Losers Club first confronted the child-eating trans-dimensional entity, and 54 years before they’d return as adults to destroy it for good, not much has changed in Stephen King‘s fictional Maine town. To bypass the prequel’s narrative constraints, developed by Andy Muschietti […]
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The best thing about The Elixir is its determination to hold almost nothing back. The new Netflix original zombie film from Indonesian horror mainstay Kimo Stamboel (The Queen of Black Magic) is well aware that it’s playing in a well-trodden subgenre, and to its credit, it never tries to reinvent the wheel of zombie cinema. […]
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David Kittredge’s passionate deep dive into The Exorcist II: Heretic pulls back the curtain on the notorious sequel’s troubled production, poor reception, and surprising legacy. “Is this the movie that kills me?” There’s something inherently satisfying about a comeback story or when some fringe cult classic suddenly becomes a colossal hit, even if it takes […]
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Clashing personalities and human conflict derailed the survivors from within a fortified farmhouse while the undead attempted to claw down its doors in George A. Romero‘s seminal Night of the Living Dead. Filmmaker Tina Romero trades the rural setting for a Brooklyn warehouse party, and the ragtag strangers for a vibrant, winsome ensemble in her […]
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Chainsaw Man’s first movie sets new action shonen anime standards with a stunning spectacle of blood, guts, and heartbreak. “I’m going to start falling for this girl…” It’s become the new normal for ongoing anime series to tell some of their biggest stories as cinematic adaptations instead of devoting part of a standard season to […]
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a well-to-do white family hires a “too good to be true” nanny to help with the children and quickly discovers that she’s not the perfect aide they hoped for. That’s the plot of both the 1992 movie The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, as well as the new 2025 […]
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AMC’s “Immortal Universe” gets a little bigger with the Talamasca, a secret society of supernatural movers and shakers who add espionage and intrigue to gothic horror. “The power in our world isn’t blood, or fangs, or magic. It’s information.” An interesting trend has cropped up over the past few years that takes advantage of fandom’s […]
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The re-popularization of FMV games and choose-your-own adventure movies is one of my favorite trends from the past few years. After all, modern technology has made it much easier for these interactive projects to finally fulfill their promises of placing you inside the narrative without relying on the compressed video files and laughable production budgets […]
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Yûta Shimotsu’s sophomore feature is an enlightening social satire about the dangers of conformity and assimilation, brought to life through a chilling body horror experiment. “Japan is the best! Japan is the best!” There is no shortage of uncomfortable imagery and surreal nightmare fuel in American horror movies. However, the chilling visuals that are born […]
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Mickey Reece creates a one-of-a-kind dream-like descent into danger, death, and delirium that’s as unbelievable as it is unpredictable. “Every heavy thing falls away.” It’s become such a rarity for a movie to genuinely, truly surprise its audience. Cinemagoers can sometimes cynically feel as if they’ve seen everything, only for a film like Mickey Reece’s […]
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