High-Tech Low Lives: A Brief Look at Early 90s Cyberpunk Movies
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The year 1990 began the decade with an economic downturn and declining birth rates. The first web server was built by Tim Berners-Lee. The Hubble Telescope was launched and Human Genome Project officially began. Still cleaning up after Exxon Valdez, next came conflict in the Middle East. Placing us on...
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Tales from the Crypt’s Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone is Full of Life
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The circus is creepy. It's just that simple. For the same reason that clowns are creepy... it's the jarring lights, the spectacle, the overly dramatic smiles. So when Tales from the Crypt's Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone uses the circus as a backdrop for its horrors... it's pretty dang...
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How Richard Matheson’s Books and Stories Changed Horror
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During an airline flight a passenger sees a demon sitting outside on the wing, chewing away at the engine. A salesman on a road trip is terrorized by an anonymous truck driver on a desolate road in the Californian desert. A virus has caused all mankind to mutate into vampires...
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Broad Strokes – A Bird’s-Eye View of Korean Scary Movies
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In the landscape of horror cinema, Korean scary movies hold a special place in the hearts of discerning viewers with a refined sense for horror filmmaking. In recent decades, Korean horror films have found widespread acclaim on a global stage, seemingly emulating the glory days of Japanese horror, which seem...
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Jeepers Creepers and Examining Police in Horror Movies
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Modern horror, especially horror taking place after 2005, has a problem that its predecessors had an easier time avoiding – phones. This isn’t to say it wasn’t an issue for horror in the past, only that a landline could be cut with relative ease, and mobile phones and the internet...
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Rawhead and Bloody Bones or Rawhead Rex: The Folk Behind the Folk Tale
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Ah, the bogeyman... or as Mr Burns would say, the "boogerman"... There are many bogeyman that grace our folklore from many traditions. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has the Wendigo, Harold, the Hookman, and numerous others taken from numerous traditions. And in the reference material of Alvin Schwartz’s...
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