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In Memoriam: John Jakes – SFWA Profiles in Science Fiction Romance Anna Hackett The Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices – Analog Science Fiction and Fact The Dark Rind of the Moon by John Taloni – FREE STORY CLUBHOUSE: Review: “The Earthborn,” SF adventure novel by Arlene F. Marks

Horror October 15, 2013

3 Witches: Reading into Dario Argento’s ‘The Three Mothers’ Trilogy

As the eyes and ears of the Horror cognoscenti are transfixed by the new season of American Horror Story, Coven, people will be talking about witches. There are innumerable stereotypes, from the kindly medicine woman in a sylvan glade to the full-blown Bride Of Satan. Each Archetype is a potent and loaded symbol, that speaks volumes about the culture and the writer that produced it. For the occasion, we have decided to investigate three of the most infamous Witch flicks out there: Dario Argento’s ‘The Three Mothers’ trilogy.

Horror September 12, 2013

Video Nasties: Don’t Look In The Basement aka The Forgotten (1973)

The cast, combined with some clever writing courtesy of Tim Pope, makes the best of the cheap budget and Gothic setting of an isolated mental institution, to create a mood that is more surreal, moody and menacing than traumatic.

Horror August 27, 2013

Lords of Salem

With The Lords Of Salem, Rob Zombie has managed to surpass his devotion to late-’70s/early-’80s slasher-film worship to make a film that is stylish and provocative, yet still being genuinely freaky.

Horror August 15, 2013

The Conjuring (2013)

The Conjuring may be the single most frightening movie I’ve ever seen. It’s the perfect balance between Classicism and Modernism.

Film/Televison July 31, 2013

Review: Twixt (2011)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning Released by American Zoetrope Many modern Horror aficionados lament the current state of the Genre: doomed to a nostalgic half-life, a perpetual twilight […]

Film/Televison June 25, 2013

Amicus Productions

For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at the current state of the horror industry. Let’s now turn back the clock, to find some classic screams: Amicus Productions was a small-budget film production company, […]

Horror June 18, 2013

British Film Forever: Magic, Murder, & Monsters

First of all, let me apologize for my sporadic attendance, of late. Fear not, good reader, the forestpunk has not deserted you. I’ve been out in the night, raiding crypts to find the brightest and […]

Horror May 21, 2013

Deconstructing Horror: Shaky Hands

Shaky Hands first-person horror If you’ve been watching horror movies for the last 15 years, you’re bound to have noticed the proliferation of hand-held, homemade horror films that are being made. […]

Horror May 14, 2013

Deconstructing Horror: The Haunted Page

Apart from sitting around the campfire, the written page is probably the most traditional method of communicating haunted tales. For this week’s edition of Deconstructing Horror, we’ll be looking at words on the page. If […]

Horror April 30, 2013

H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthuluCon Happening This Weekend In Portland!

For many years, if you wanted to see the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft adapted for the big screen, one would have to have to content one’s self with endlessly re-watching The Bride Of Re-Animator […]

Horror April 25, 2013

Digging The Crates Vol. II

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Digging The Crates, where we strive to find the best, most brilliant, most deranged and inspired that the horror genre has to offer. It’s been a busy couple […]

Horror April 10, 2013

Diggin’ The Crates

There is a term in rap/hip-hop culture called Crate Digging. It means endlessly trawling through classic funk, soul & every other kind of record imaginable, looking for the rarest, choicest samples. The task of any […]

Film/Televison April 3, 2013

Bates Motel on A & E

We’re going to take a break from all the philosophizing for a minute – there’s just too much news in the horror universe right now! We’ll get back to the textbooks soon, I promise. Amazing […]

Horror March 26, 2013

Deconstructing Horror: Haunted Houses

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away… – Hughes Mearns, Antigonish We are all haunted houses. – H. D.. […]

Horror March 19, 2013

Deconstructing Horror: Slamming Doors, Rattling Chains

Haunted Sounds We’re very excited for this week’s edition of Deconstructing Horror, in which we will investigate how Haunted Houses have possessed the auditory arts. When I was a kid, I was the weirdo that […]

Film/Televison March 12, 2013

Deconstructing Horror: Moving Pictures, Silent Films – Haunted Houses on the Screen

Moving Pictures, Silent Films; Haunted Houses on the Screen Seeing as how Western society is predominantly visual, it stands to reason that we begin with the presence of Haunted Houses in movies and on television. […]

Horror February 12, 2013

Supernatural Horror In Literature

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the […]

Film/Televison February 5, 2013

Unearthed: Possesion (1981)

Title: Possession (The Night The Screaming Stopped) Release Date: 1981 Director: Andrzej Zulawski Starring: Isabel Adjani, Sam Neill Language: English Many horror fans are filled with despair when flipping channels, or picking over the bones […]

Fantasy January 29, 2013

Horrorcast: The Drabblecast

If you love to start your day with photos of catacombs and bone chandeliers, or listen to ectoplasmic psychodramas while doing your grocery shopping, then quality genre-related newsfeeds that bring you the best art, fiction, […]

Horror January 22, 2013

Weird Tales For Winter

If you’re anything like me, you have long since exhausted the established canon of weird, speculative, and mainstream horror fiction. You’ve read every Stephen King novel in triplicate, and are starting to wish that […]