Aswang: Grim Filipino Folk Creature with a Real Life Counterpart
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While horror is a truly popular genre around the entire world, part of its strength and fun come from incorporating local folklore and presenting those to a global audience. Think about the Romanian Strigoi for example, an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Or the Japanese vengeful ghost Onryō: who doesn’t...
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Huli Jing, The Strange Legend Featured in Love, Death, and Robots
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Love, Death, and Robots is a Netflix original animated series that is very adult-oriented. It debuted in 2019 with a great selection of episodes from an amazing group of animators and animation styles, but it's no kiddie stuff. A major influence is Heavy Metal, the cult 1981 animated film that...
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Matriarch as God: Carrie by Stephen King and an Analysis of The White Cupboard
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If you search for "cupboard under the stairs" on Google you will be met with a deluge of Harry Potter fan theories. Namely, that he, the titular Harry Potter (said in the voice of Severus Snape, of course) never left the confines of his life beneath the Dursley’s stairs, but,...
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Tales from the Darkside The Movie: Gargoyles, Mummies, & More. An Analysis.
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Gargoyles are weird things. They are literally little frozen monsters hanging off a building, warding off... things. But for horror, they have a rich history and are a great tool for storytelling. Aside from being a depiction of the purely gothic, they are synonymous with the genre. That can also...
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The X-Files Banned Episode – Home… Unpacking a Sorted Tale
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"You don't have to lock your doors around here." That's a line I know I've heard a lot. Someone from a city remarking on small town or country living. And it's a line from the famous X-Files banned episode "Home". Season 4 Episode 2 of the long-running science fiction crime...
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Event Horizon Explained: Haunted Space, Blood Orgies, and All That Jazz
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In 1997 cinematic horror wasn’t in such a great place. Big cinema releases included Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer. It was the heyday of the meta-slasher. Self aware? Yes. Almost a parody? Yes. But scary or shocking? Not in the least. Where could a horror...
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