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 Jerry Smith There’s something very special about seeing yourself in a film; the way the art form allows its viewers to almost live vicariously through their favorite characters has always left this writer quite enthralled. To find something, a deep meaning, or a relatable aspect to a film playing…

By. T.J. Tranchell We are told when we enter the fifth dimension known as The Twilight Zone that it is a place not just of sight and sound but of mind. The realm of the mind, be it imaginative or logical, is my business. I am a teacher at a…

By Sara Century Among the many adaptations of Stephen King’s work, Castle Rock remains a bit of an anomaly. Created not as a direct take or continuation of any of his works and instead utilizing the rich environment of the fictional town in Maine in which many of his stories…

By Brian Keiper Read Part 1 Macbeth is well known for being “the bloody play” in Shakespeare’s canon but up to this point, the visual poetry had been rendered in beautiful black and white. …

By Tina Kakadelis There is a long-standing trope within pop culture called “Bury Your Gays.” It’s unclear when the term was first coined, but its purpose is to shed light on the number of LGBT characters in media who die. Critics of the trope aren’t asking for LGBT characters to…

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. Each film carries with it a unique tone and yet, as SpectreVision continues…

By Luke Beale I was very shy and introverted growing up and often felt as if I floated through the world in a bubble. It felt like there was a distance between me and the world around me as if I was not quite part of it. Although I made…

By T.J. Tranchell When HBO canceled Carnivalé after two seasons, American film and TV sank into a brief ignorance of an important aspect of its past: circuses and carnivals. While circuses — in the popular notion of them — tended toward animal exploitation, carnivals relied on the exploitation of the…