By Jerry Smith By 2022, we’ve seen our fair share of true crime cinema. Between the countless Netflix documentaries, the makeup-murder YouTube video personalities, and quite literally every single thing under the burning sun, the true-crime plateau has been saturated to the point where you can’t turn the corner without…

By Sara Century Since its release in 1897, the world has been inundated with a stunning number of adaptations and homages to Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula. We’ve seen a terrifying, parasitic vampire transform into an aloof, dreamy hunk, and his uncomfortable, one-sided sexual infatuation with Mina shift into a tragic…

By Brian Keiper Witches, madness, gore, ghosts, beheadings; make no mistake, Macbeth is a horror story. It is an exploration of ambition, murder, and the tormented conscience, a play filled with tensions and contradictions, paradoxes and equivocations. Nothing in Macbeth is ever so cut and dry as pure good or…

By Justin Drabek SpectreWatch is where writer Justin Drabek discusses the horror filmography of SpectreVision, the impact it has had on him, and the cultural relevance of the company’s commitment to making outsider art for the screen. …

By Katie Gill Over the past decade, the narrative podcast form has exploded in popularity. Gone are the days when a listener would be pleasantly surprised to see Welcome to Night Vale on an end-of-the-year-best-of list. Now, there are narrative podcasts popular enough to routinely take in five figures a…

By Pat Brennan I had lost hope that things would ever change. This was on a subconscious level. My drinking had gotten to the point where it had become vampiric, slowly sucking the life out of me with each passing day. Yet, I didn’t realize it at the time. No…

By Jerry Smith Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street knocked horror fans for a loop when the story of a burned slasher enacting revenge on the children of the people who killed him years prior hit theaters and scared the living hell out of viewers. How easily…

By Luke Beale “Something in the mist! Something in the mist took John Lee!” Of the authors with the most books adapted into a film, Stephen King makes the top twenty, and he takes the top spot of those still alive today. Frank Darabont has directed three feature films and…

By T.J. Tranchell There are stories we can’t escape from, that resonate and recur, that we revisit willingly or not, sometimes molding them to fit the time we are in or to address our contemporary circumstances. As we confront the evils in the world, the boogieman returns. Michael Myers and…