The Empty Man: Explaining the Cult Flick That Begs to be Discovered
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Last February something peculiar caught my interest on Twitter. It was a short tweet written by Canadian horror writer and screenwriter Gemma Files. She’s an author whose work I love and admire - check out her very disturbing free short...
The Twilight Zone’s “The Silence” is Golden Television
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It has been six decades since The Twilight Zone first premiered. Though now most are familiar with the series during the holiday season. Marathons run during the New Year when time often loses all meaning. Rod Serling, creator of the...
7 Scary Documentaries You Can Watch Right Now
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Scary Documentary #7 - In Search of Darkness In Search of Darkness, 2019 There are many scary documentaries about horror movies. I have a lot of my personal favorites, but of course, it is very subjective. If you love a...
Stephen King’s Summer Thunder and a Look at Apocalyptic Fiction
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We are consumed by thoughts of our own destruction. The image of the desolate city has become one of the “most successful cultural devices of the twenty-first century” according to Dr Catherine Morley of the University of Leicester. And it’s...
The Wilderness of Wrong Turn: Location and Environment in the Movie
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I’ve never been scared of the dark. Not as a child, and not as an adult. For me, the dark was neutral, a place that I was able to hide when the monster in my house came into my room....
The Girl with the Green Ribbon – The Story Behind the Tale
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The story The Green Ribbon is a tale that often is confused with being in the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, famously collected from folklore and urban legends by Alvin Schwartz. But it was not. It was...