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The Yellow Night (Brazilian Grind Art Horror)
Stop me if you’ve heard this: a group of teenagers travels to an isolated island for a debauched graduation party weekend. Disregarding oblique warnings from vaguely menacing locals, they arrive at one of the teens’ family estate. When someone goes missing, it becomes evident that something terrifying lurks in the shadows enshrouding the island. […]
Carpenter Brut \ cheese \ horror \ sci-fi \ Seth Ickerman \ Shudder \ synthwave
Blood Machines (Vapid Sci-Fi Horror Synth Cheese)
Those uninitiated in synthwave and unfamiliar with one of the forefathers of the genre, Carpenter Brut, can now be exposed to it all through bloody 80s nostalgia with the release of Blood Machines on Shudder. The three episode “epic” by Seth Ickerman involves the discovery of an entity who escapes her spaceship, turning into […]
Deathbed Tapes \ horror \ noise \ worm face thing
DEATH CULT RITUAL – NIGHT OF THE FLESH-EATING FREAKS (Full CAPS Noise Horror)
Noise has for at least two decades been a case of you’ve heard one you’ve pretty much heard them all. The genre is constantly resistant to change and stagnancy reigns, mainly because it’s so damn easy to stomp a bunch of pedals and feign “scary” while tossing fake blood around and screaming into a […]
animation \ Baba-Yaga properly pronounced \ Canada \ folk horror \ folklore \ horror \ National Film Board of Canada \ NFB
Bone Mother (Baba-Yaga Pronounced Correctly Folk Horror)
The horror industry should really dig into folklore more, from anywhere, and lose the jumpscares. I don’t mean dig in there, steal some stuff, and then claim it as one’s own, I mean let it reveal itself. Case in point this recent, animated, true-to-the-original short, Bone Mother, which draws on Russian folklore, in particular […]
animation \ Carlos Baena \ films \ horror \ horror film \ scary monster is actually me
La Noira (Broken Heart Horror by Carlos Baena)
La Noira received tons of praise before I even looked at it, and since my suggested viewing kept bothering me about it I figured “okay, fine.” Directed by mainstream (gasp) powerhouse Carlos Baena (ahem Jurassic Park III and Toy Story 3, among many others) La Noira (which translates to “The Ferris Wheel”) has been […]
creatures \ Dark Star Pictures \ films \ horror \ incest \ insect incest lol wut \ Owen Long \ psychological horror
Seeds (New England Insect Incest)
Take a psychological creature-feature thriller and throw in inappropriate sexual desire so that it’s clear keeping it in the family is not always best and you get Seeds, a haunting debut from writer-director Owen Long. When a night of debauchery spirals out of control, a young man named Marcus retreats to the isolation of […]
Fat Dog Games \ first-person survival horror \ horror \ Mrciastku \ Ouija board scary \ Steam \ survival horror \ video game \ video games
Apparition (Actually Scary Ouija Ghost Hunt)
Okay this game freaked me out. When Fat Dog Games first told me about Apparition after I contacted them about a different game, I was disinterested because of how pathetic the theme seemed but I figured eh free play, review, move on. I was wrong. So very wrong and so very scared. Who would […]
Breaking Dimensions \ dinosaur HORROR \ dinosaurs \ horror \ Polygon Dust \ Steam \ survival horror \ video games
Oakwood (Dinosaur Horror WTF)
I saw some people ripping on this game and was like why? Dinosaurs come with gore, why not make a horror game from that? Or movie. I think part of the challenge lies in the vapidity that is the Jurassic Park series (III is the best STFU), which turned dinosaurs into something fearsome, but […]
AI \ BH Tilt \ film \ horror \ Leigh Whannel \ OTL Releasing \ poor Asimov \ sci-fi \ science fiction
Upgrade (Death Wish + Linux = )
Upgrade is the second film by the Australian Leigh Whaddel, a co-creator of the Saw franchise. Thankfully this film represents a movement away from Whaddel’s earlier gory shenanigans and is a venture into the holiest of holies: science fiction. As opposed to exploring a world where a pig mask wearing grandpa gets hard from […]
Dark Star Pictures \ film \ horror \ Lisa Brühlmann \ Lunda Wedler \ movie
Blue My Mind (Little Mermaid Body Horror)
The “coming of age” theme has been exploited in so many films over the years that I’d probably have a brain aneurysm in the process of trying to name them all. Cynical elitism aside, however, at times a healthy dash of artistic flair combined with strong cinematography can give even the most cliched of […]
