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fromCN Traveller
16 hours ago

Wednesday Addams is headed to Paris - here's everything we know

Wednesday Addams has captured an international audience, becoming one of Netflix's most-streamed series of all time, debuting at number one in 83 countries.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

55 Years Later, A Forgotten Satanic Thriller Remains Folk Horror's Most Subversive Movie

The Blood on Satan's Claw presents a surreal, morally ambiguous narrative about demonic influence in a rural village, particularly affecting the children.
Film
fromInverse
1 week ago

55 Years Later, A Forgotten Satanic Thriller Remains Folk Horror's Most Subversive Movie

The Blood on Satan's Claw presents a surreal, morally ambiguous narrative about demonic influence in a rural village, particularly affecting the children.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

How Stephen King Made The Shining Even Scarier

Stephen King's revisions in The Shining enhance the story's horror through specific imagery and the removal of explicit references to violence.
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fromTime Out London
2 weeks ago

Catch a buzzy new Japanese horror movie at a London cinema next week - totally free

Free tickets available for the J-horror film 'Exit 8' as part of BFI's Escapes initiative on April 13-14.
History
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

94 Years Later, An Iconic Horror Genre Finally Reveals Its Complex Roots

The zombie symbolizes the historical trauma of slavery, originating as a metaphor in Haitian Vodou and evolving into a horror genre staple.
fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, but he did not win the Best Picture award despite the film's success in other categories.
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fromIndependent
4 weeks ago

'First thing I did was bring the team to see the bog bodies in the National Museum' - Hollywood director Lee Cronin on giving his take on The Mummy an Irish spin

Lee Cronin's new take on 'The Mummy' emphasizes personal loss and horror set against a haunting landscape.
Arts
fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago

Horror show shatters box office records in San Francisco

A new play, 'Paranormal Activity,' has set box office records at A.C.T. by attracting new audiences and generating significant ticket sales.
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fromInverse
1 month ago
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How The Bloodiest Demonic Thriller Of The Year Beat The Horror Sequel Curse

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett prefer standalone films but are now embracing a sequel to Ready or Not.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago
Film

The Mortuary Assistant review game-inspired horror simulates morgue work with conviction

The Mortuary Assistant excels in practical effects but struggles with character depth and narrative balance.
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

How The Bloodiest Demonic Thriller Of The Year Beat The Horror Sequel Curse

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett prefer standalone films but are now embracing a sequel to Ready or Not.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Mortuary Assistant review game-inspired horror simulates morgue work with conviction

The Mortuary Assistant excels in practical effects but struggles with character depth and narrative balance.
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fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Burton Fest: Inspired by the Mind of Tim Burton (Easy Bay)

Burton Fest celebrates Tim Burton's aesthetic with themed experiences, gothic cocktails, and whimsical attractions across multiple immersive zones.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Carnivale revisited: is this HBO's strangest show?

Carnivale, an HBO series cancelled after two seasons, follows a carnival traveling through 1930s America while weaving parallel stories of a mysterious ex-con and a visionary preacher destined to collide in cosmic conflict.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Private Nightmares: Francisco Rodriguez @ Baert Gallery, Los Angeles

Rodriguez paints memories of vanished places using flattened compositions and muted palettes informed by historical artistic traditions, exploring contemporary anxieties through figures seeking escape from digital isolation.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Beautiful Occult Hand Embroidery By Adipocere, Weaving Macabre Maidens And Danse Macabre On Line

Melbourne embroidery artist Adipocere creates intricate macabre illustrations on natural linen, blending innocence with unsettling melancholy through occult and surrealist themes exploring death, impermanence, and existential concepts.
fromKqed
5 months ago

These 5 Creatures Make a Living Off of Death: A Halloween Compilation | KQED

A passerby discovers it first - and lets out a piercing call. Within seconds, everyone in earshot rushes to the scene. It's mayhem... or so it seems. Crows are intelligent, and super chatty. They watch out for one another within tight-knit groups. As adults it's pretty rare for crows to be killed. So when one dies the others notice. Are they just scared? Or is something deeper going on.
Science
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Cult-Classic '90s Horror Game Comes To Steam With Bizarre Title

The 1995 cult game The Dark Eye returns to Steam as Edgar Allan Poe's Interactive Horror: 1995 Edition, restored via ScummVM with Burroughs narration.
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Rob Zombie: The Great Satan

Upon going solo after White Zombie's breakup in the late '90s, the one-time noise-rock underdog became metal's demonoid phenom with 1998's Hellbilly Deluxe, a monster mosh of horror-themed industrial-metal that spawned the generational vampiric speedway anthem, "Dragula," along with several other Halloween playlist essentials.
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Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A plague doctor dances with a rat at a Covid ball: Lisl Ponger's best photograph

A staged photograph juxtaposes Covid-era masks, historical plague imagery, colonial violence, and varied social-distancing gestures to critique pandemic responses and cultural meanings.
Books
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Curing Zombies in "The Bone Temple"

Monsters evolve to mirror the cultural anxieties and ambitions of their eras, revealing societal fears about race, empire, mental health, and scientific cure.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

90 Years Later, A Legendary Actor Still Elevates A Forgotten Horror

Boris Karloff's 1936 film The Walking Dead demonstrates his versatility beyond monster typecasting, blending gangster, horror, and morality tale genres while showcasing his emotional depth as an actor.
Books
fromEngadget
2 months ago

What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona

A trans woman uncovers non-consensual pornography of herself and is drawn into escalating horrors involving identity, exploitation, internet influence, and economic precarity.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

Vampires in storytelling symbolize societal fears and reflect historical social and racial violence, as shown by a 1930s-set horror about community-targeted vampires.
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Breathtaking Grotesque Illustrations Capturing Humanity's Darkest Corners by Vergvoktre

A diverse array of contemporary visual works spans photography, illustration, street art, tattoos, sculpture, anime, and dark cinematic painting.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Incredible Dark Ritual Imagery Exploring Death, Loneliness And Mythic Gates by Benjamin Malejko

A curated showcase of diverse visual works spanning illustrations, dark concept art, photography winners, humorous designs, reimagined logos, and imaginative digital and portrait art.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

The vampire figure personifies societal anxieties and mirrors social and racial violence, sustaining enduring cultural relevance across myth, literature, and film.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

V/H/S/Halloween review plenty of grisly invention in latest helping of engaging horror anthology

V/H/S/Halloween is an uneven, Halloween-themed horror anthology with standout shorts like Fun Size and Kidprint, plus an absurdly funny wrap-around, Diet Phantasma.
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Bruce Campbell on Death, Dying, and DIYing His New Movie Ernie & Emma

Who needs all those notes? I got tired of that. Really, really tired of that. And I'm like, man, if you're in the arts, you should do everything you can to protect your art. So Campbell knew he wanted to make a movie, and he knew he didn't want to go through the big Hollywood machine.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

91 Years Ago, The Original 'Bride' Electrified The 'Frankenstein' Myth

James Whale's 1935 Bride of Frankenstein smuggled complex ideas about gender and sexuality into a sequel whose reluctant director transformed a cash-grab project into a revisionist masterpiece.
Film
fromKqed
3 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Is a Retro Thriller That's Pertinent to the Present

Dead Man's Wire channels Dog Day Afternoon's righteous rage and contemporary echoes, propelled by Bill Skarsgård's intense performance and critique of media spectacle and capitalism.
Film
fromwww.esquire.com
2 months ago

8 Most Anticipated Horror Movies of 2026

This year's horror slate mixes high-profile auteurs, revived franchises, and critically acclaimed originals promising mainstream box-office success and intense, socially minded scares.
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