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'Wasteland', or, How We Went From World War I to White Walkers

In Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, historian W. Scott Poole exhumes our obsession with the living dead.

Books

'Room 104' Season 2 Throws It All Against the Wall - Let's See What Sticks

HBO's anthology horror series, Room 104, offers glimpses of promise and bizarre insight, but often feels constrained by its half-hour timeframe.

Reviews

Imagine a Serene, Untroubled World and What Do You Get? 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'

Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers explores the ideologies of control, and those who go willingly -- and those who resist.

Film

The Bee-all and End-all of 'The Swarm', or Irwin Allen's Human Bee-in

No matter if they're African or Brazilian bad-ass bees, what matters to the Yanks in The Swarm is that a bunch of vicious foreigners want to invade their land and claim their women!

Film

The Outer Limits of Spookery: Resurrecting 'The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre'

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre feels like an unknown episode of The Outer Limits dropped in from an alternate dimension.

Film

'Suspiria (2018)' Ravishes with Beauty and Ugliness

Luca Guadagnino's re-make of the Argento classic is a pretentious arthouse mind-screw that demands to be seen.

Film

'Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde': Hammer Films in Transition

The legendary horror studio's gender-bending take on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story epitomized the changing roles of women at Hammer Films.

Film

Shades of (Karen) Black: 'Trilogy of Terror' or the Deadliest Fetishes

These stories play with fire and do what tales of horror and the macabre are supposed to: transmute real social fears into metaphorical charades for our unsettling entertainment so we don't know which end is up.

Film

An Insecure Cinematic Reality: Director Matthew Holness on 'Possum'

Writer-director Matthew Holness on inviting the audience to gaze into its own unconscious.

Film

'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' Is a Therapuetic Work of Hardcore Literary Pessimism

This reissue of Thomas Ligotti's most frightening work about the ultimate terror, human existence, might be just what you need in these times.

Books

'Apostle' Director Gareth Evans on Filmmaking, Narcissism, and Intent

Director Gareth Evans reflects on wanting to once again flex the muscle of making a horror film after his unintentional hiatus from making a film.

Film

TIFF 2018: Endzeit (Ever After)

Endzeit joins Annihilation in challenging us to embrace the end of our world.

Film

'Braid': A Discombobulated, Euphoric, and Unstable Riddle

Writer-director Peirone brings a questioning gaze to the concept of reality.

Film

'Impulse' Stylishly Avoids Restraint

In Graham Baker's horror/ suspense/ sci-fi film, now on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, impulses originate from within the human animal rather than from an outside force.

Film

The Craziest Sh*t Happens in the Suburbs: Interview with 'Summer of 84' Filmmaking Collective, RKSS

Now screening at Arrow Video FrightFest 2018, François Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell and Anouk Whissell of Summer of 84 discuss with PopMatters something far more scary than the suburbs: the audience.

Film

Art, Punks, and Slashers: Interview with The Ranger's Jenn Wexler

The opening night film of Arrow Video FrightFest 2018 finds first time director Wexler infusing a kids in the woods slasher with her guilty pleasure – the commercial art of Lisa Frank.

Film

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The 60 Best Songs of 2018

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