Horror video games love abandoned and haunted mansions. Be it the Spencer Mansion from Resident Evil or the Barrows Mansion from Clock Tower, this creepy and confined setting feels right at home in the horror genre. For RYM Games’ (an…
Overlord Trailer: Bad Robot Delivers a Bonkers World War II Horror Flick
There is no war that has been beaten further into the ground than World War II. No disrespect to the real heroes, but we’re getting to the point where every movie that has to do with the beaches of Normandy…
15 Years On and the Influence of ’28 Days Later’ Still Shows
For a genre about reanimating the dead, zombies were staying underground for the most part from the late 80’s through the whole 90’s. Day of the Dead (1985) had been the last high profile release for the longest time with only the…
Hereditary Movie Review: Ari Aster Has Created Something Terrifyingly Dreadful and Magnificent
Full disclosure — when it comes to horror, you’ll typically find me hiding behind my hands, but nothing has shaken me more than Ari Aster’s Hereditary. At just over two hours, it’s an unrelenting, dread-inducing portrait of a family descending…
How Independent Films are Turning the Genre into Reflections of Our Societal and Internal Terrors
In October 2017, GQ published a staggering article covering this new Golden Age of Horror Movies. It’s true, this cultural moment is quite the horror renaissance. These movies aren’t just terrifying, they’re smart, and well written. There is a matter…
A Quiet Place Review: Krasinski Silences with Sheer Suspense
A Quiet Place is as ferociously primal of a horror film as the terrifying predators present throughout. These creatures feed off sound, which is somewhat of a rudimentary gimmick for a horror film monster. Director and star John Krasinski takes full…
7 Horror Villains That NEED to be in Video Games
The film and video game worlds are hardly related, and yet are consistently inspired by one another, with ideas, themes, imagery and even characters and franchises finding themselves interwoven between the two mediums. Those last couple things are among the…