Appreciating Interdimensional Horror in Fiction: Twisted Ones and Hollow Places
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Hoarders repulse us and fascinate us. Throw a rock at your TV while skipping through the reality TV channels and you’ll hit a station with a confused fifty-year-old man with black skiddies stuck to his toilet, three hundred corks littering what can be seen of his living room floor, and...
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In The Earth: Examining the Fungal Horror of Ben Wheatley’s Masterpiece
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I first encountered Ben Wheatley’s work when I saw Kill List, a roaring and devastating combination of British "kitchen sink drama" and visceral folk horror. My first reaction after watching the film was something like “oh my god, what did I just see?” If you haven’t seen it, dear reader,...
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The Story of the Vindow Viper, The Famous (Funny) Campfire Tale
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I made a documentary about Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. (Now available to watch.) The three books consisted of over 80 stories of folklore and urban legends. It was impossible to appropriately address each and every story in a single documentary. This website, in part, is a chance...
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Dissecting Internet Horror Movies Such as Host and Unfriended
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No one needs to be convinced that a vast majority of our daily time is spent watching a screen. They are omnipresent in our daily lives, from the tablet that the kids use to relax after their school duties, to the meetings in Zoom/Google Meet/Skype/etc that their home working mom...
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Sisters by Daisy Johnson is Horror’s Latest Foray into Terrifying Twins
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Twins are a horror staple. From the little girls in The Shining (Kubrick’s version, “Come play with us, Danny!”) to Elas and Lukas in Goodnight Mommy, these little replicas of one another have freaked us out over and over again. Children in general are freaky in horror, there’s a great...
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The Twilight Zone’s Queen of The Nile Reigns Supreme
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Rod Serling’s iconic Twilight Zone television series gave him freedom. Wanting to delve into more controversial subjects, the sci-fi anthology allowed him to do so. Social commentaries were regularly made on the horrors of modern reality... the fear of aging and obsession with recapturing youth... these themes were heavily touched...
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