Treehouse Tropes: A Parody Extravaganza in “I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did”
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In 1999, the Simpsons released the tenth installment of their well-lauded Halloween series, “Treehouse of Horror.” It features a number of incredibly timely segments that reference everything from Xena: Warrior Princess to the (at the time) impending Y2K crisis. Although the writing hasn’t yet grown stale, the episode certainly feels...
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Censor: Explaining a Movie That Dares to Get Meta
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As Enid and her parents sit for a terse lunch, her mother asks ‘How is work? Anything you’d recommend?’ Enid, a film censor for the BBFC at the height of the hysteria around Video Nasties in the 80’s here in the UK says back: It’s not entertainment, mum. I do...
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The Cold, Dark World of Icelandic Horror
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"Do you have any Icelandic horror movies?" That was the first question I asked after ducking into a hole-in-the-wall DVD store in downtown Reykjavik. I had just returned to the city after a week-long road trip around the country with two of my friends, and my mind was buzzing with...
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The Pure Evil of The Tritone – The Sound of The Devil
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Music has been an unending constant in human history for millennia. Many genres, styles, and artists have cemented their place in history over time and many timeless works of music are still fondly recalled to this day. However, music is also filled with the bizarre, and in some cases, pure...
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Set Sail for Eternity in The Twilight Zone’s “Death Ship”
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Between science and superstition lies the middle ground upon which Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone. A fan of fantasy and sci-fi magazines since childhood, Serling intended to utilize top pulp authors in developing his television series. Holding a screening of the pilot for a select pool of writers, they...
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TJ Payne’s Intercepts, a Novel That Modernizes Cold War Horrors
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Horror writers love an insanity moment. Evolving from the Gothic insane asylum movement, horror writers have deepened insanity as a literary device in a way that reflects back to us and our own definitions of sanity. One of the most famous (viral?) stories about insanity is CreepyPasta’s The Russian Sleep...
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