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4Divinity \ Invader Studios \ Leonardo Interactive \ Nintendo Switch \ PlayStation 4 \ PlayStation 5 \ Sci-fi Horror \ Steam \ third-person horror \ Xbox One \ XBox Series S \ Xbox Series X
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle (Self-Aware Area 51 Sci-Fi Horror)
Having played the original, Daymare 1998, I was pretty stoked to hear about a sequel, or rather prequel since this is taking place four years prior. If you’re not familiar with its predecessor, it was a homage to the Resident Evil series, taking many of its ideas, purposefully, from the franchise, equaling what is […]
Kristina Osborn \ Otis Bateman \ splatploitation \ Splatploitation Press \ splatter horror \ splatterpunk \ Stephen Cooper \ Stuart Bray \ Truborn Designs
Ensuring Your Place in Hell (Splatploitation Horror Literature)
I’m going to be honest, this kind of pushed some boundaries for me, and that says a lot. I’m phased by very little, nothing much bothers me in terms of heavy description or squeamishness or violence. My avid reading of extreme horror of all kinds has completely desensitized me to the majority of things. […]
Blu-ray \ body swap horror \ H. P. Lovecraft \ horror film \ horror thriller \ Joe Lynch \ RLJE Films \ Shudder
Suitable Flesh (Sexy Kinky Lovecraftian Body Swap Horror)
With the passing of director Stuart Gordon and the unwarranted attention paid to the grossly overrated Color Out of Space, we as an audience are experiencing an outrageous resurgence in the proliferation of H.P. Lovecraft adaptations. Written by Re-Animator scribe Dennis Paoli, Suitable Flesh would be the last film Lovecraft would be caught dead […]
blackened death rock \ Claudio Elias Scialabba \ death rock \ Dying Victims Productions \ Italy \ Messina \ Sicily
Bunker 66 – Portraits of Dismay (Blackened Autobiographical Death Rock)
Normally, I avoid compilations. I get the point, but I don’t like them, I want something new. Okay, so the way around that is typically a band or label will add new tracks or something, but they’re most often covers so why TF bother? But, when you put in there rarity whether early demos […]
blackened death metal \ California \ Hells Headbangers \ Los Angeles \ Nestor Avalos \ United States
Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Traitorous Bones Blackened Death Metal)
Though part of the original guarde of black metal in the United States, I’ve never really considered Demoncy to be black metal, though I have always considered them to be awesome. Their earlier work certainly hearkens back to the early 1990s wave from Norway, but as time went on they developed their own, Californian, […]
Epic Games \ Epic Games Publishing \ first-person survival horror \ PC \ Remedy Entertainment \ survival horror
Alan Wake II (A Novella on Survival Horror)
2023 has been an outstanding year for video games, and no game is better evidence than Alan Wake II. Remedy Entertainment’s latest outing sees the titular character back in action in the world of Bright Falls, with better puzzles, mysteries, and characters (old and returning) to stave off the darkness. Alan Wake II is […]
black ambient \ dark ambient \ dark industrial \ dark ritualistic ambient \ Japan \ ritualistic ambient \ Slithering Black Records
Maris Anguis – Infernal Reign (Black Ambient Soul Purge)
There’s good ambient, and there’s bad ambient, regardless of subgenre. There is no middle. The reason is simple. The artist is either skilled at making music, or merely holds keys on a keyboard. I’ve said this a bagillkillion times. Here we have something even beyond the usual skill, though, something of darkly mythic potential. […]
Ainul Iblis \ Austria \ Estonia \ raw black metal \ Signal Rex \ Switzerland
Burial Moon – S/T (Mystical Darkness Raw Black Metal)
This one surprised me for reasons that might escape the usual listener. I was told once I review too much black metal, but that happened to be a coincidence for the time and now that winter draws closer I have an excuse if I wanna engage. At any rate, I know the tropes, you […]
David Winters \ horror comedy \ Severin Films \ Troma Entertainment
The Last Horror Film (Onanistic Maniacal Horror Comedy)
With the success of 1980’s Maniac, producer Judd Hamilton saw dollar signs in the torrid team-up of the beautiful Caroline Munro and quirky character actor Joe Spinell. As a result, we were graced by the truly bizarre The Last Horror Film (lensed at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival as The Fanatic) less than two […]
Chorus Worldwide Games \ interactive fiction \ LCB Game Studio \ old school PC horror \ text-based adventure \ visual novel
Varney Lake (Pixel Pulp Vampiric Visual Novel)
Oooooo, tasty, bloody, and pulpy. I was pretty excited about Varney Lake, not just for the Varney the Vampire references, but for the fact that it was an old-school PC text adventure horror game. Before it dropped the devs let me check out another title they did prior, Mothmen 1966, which was surprisingly deep. […]
