Sometimes, you think you know what you’re in for when you go into a movie and it ends up being something else - either in a sly subversion o...

I have my biases, and one of them is for focused, elegantly constructed stories. Shit, given that we’re talking about scary movies, you coul...

Another one of horror film’s time-honored traditions is stories of make-believe that goes too far. Maybe it’s a movie, or some kind of game,...

Myths, fables, and fairytales are fertile ground for horror. They’re often instructional stories, intended to provide an explanation for how...

Loneliness is corrosive. We’re a social species, for whom community is historically an important part of our survival. And even though it mi...

Today, I’m going to be writing about my latest in an ongoing attempt to familiarize myself with classic Italian horror. Most of what I’ve ta...

The German word unheimlich means, strange, or eerie, or uncanny, and literally translates as “unhome-like.” So something that is strange or...