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Five Icy Horror Movies to Stream This Week

As winter still rages on, keeping much of the country in arctic temps, one of horror’s greatest films, John Carpenter’s The Thing, received much deserved recognition last week. The quintessential winter horror movie reminds us why the icy cold chills and isolation that winter brings serve the genre so well. This week’s streaming picks aim […] The post Five Icy Horror Movies to Stream This Week appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
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Five Winter Set Horror Movies to Stream This Week

Oh, the weather outside is frightful. So, naturally, we’re theming this week’s streaming horror picks around it. There’s something about horror movies set in winter that makes for an added layer of dread. The dreary, sunless skies could be a factor in establishing a grim mood. But it probably has more to do with the […] The post Five Winter Set Horror Movies to Stream This Week appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
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You Are What You Eat: Cannibalism in Contemporary Horror

You can always count on horror to test boundaries, so it’s no surprise that the genre has long explored the taboo of cannibalism. Cannibals are most often associated with exploitation horror, leading to a cannibal horror boon in the ’70s and early ’80s, thanks to Italian horror filmmakers like Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, and Joe […] The post You Are What You Eat: Cannibalism in Contemporary Horror appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Meagan Navarro
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Beyond Leatherface and Hannibal: Six Other Memorable Movie Cannibals

While it was once prevalent in ancient cultures as both a religious ceremony and legitimate survival tactic, cannibalism has since become a long-running staple of the horror genre. Sure, there are the occasional real-world tragedies like the crimes of José Luis Calva or the infamous Donner Party incident, but there is certainly no shortage of […] The post Beyond Leatherface and Hannibal: Six Other Memorable Movie Cannibals appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Luiz H. C.