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Prologue: The squishing of mud can be heard as grade a military boots hit the canvas. A small group of certified trained professionals walk through the pitch Black Forest. Their laser sights are on and their night vision goggles as well. The only lights admitting are the red lasers and the green goggles.
By Cameron Crisamore26 years ago in Horror
Is Zak Bagans a fake?
So if you don't know who Zak Bagans is he is the lead investigators on travel channel's ghost adventures. Ghost adventures started as a documentary in 2004 on the SyFy channel, it later turned into a show on the travel channel. He has also opened his own museum in Las Vegas.
By Lena Bailey6 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Voices' (2014)
This was a fantastic movie that I honestly hoped would lean a little more into comedy. While yes, this movie was absurdist, it cannot be called comedy. Just dark. Dark, dark, dark, absurdism. There was... nothing funny about this movie. This movie is about -in all respects- the final tipping point for a serial killer as he comes apart.
By Reed Alexander6 years ago in Horror
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
I was fairly young the first time I read this - around ten or eleven. I’m not going to lie to you, I had my dictionary at the ready and was looking up strange words left, right and centre. First time around, I didn’t really get it, so I went back and read it again and scared myself half to death because, after reading it once, I knew what all the words meant now. For a few days, I didn’t get much sleep and I was up most nights thinking about those weird children and the haunting coldness of Bly Manor. I would re-read the book over the years because the way in which the ghosts psychological enrapture the children is so incredibly intense even though the text itself is relatively short. You’d imagine you would need a long novel to build that kind of atmosphere, but Henry James does it in a short amount of time, leaving you with a shivering and shuddering feeling long after the text has ended. The last time I read it was when I was teaching it, maybe last year some time in the Spring. The students I was teaching it to often admitted that the text felt very dark because of the fact the bad things were happening to children. I think that much like novels such as “The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty and “Suffer the Children” by John Saul, Henry James offered us a darker look at hauntings and horror through his writing of the innocence and child-like nature of Flora and Miles. It is not only frightening, in some cases it is rather disturbing too.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Horror
Forgotten Time: Part Two
Part 2: Picture of the past My eyes darting back around me as the front door that I had so eagerly walked through and having opened it without invitation, closed once again with a loud click as it returned inside the frame. There is no way a breeze could have pulled the door closed and although to my eyes there was no view of anything or anyone, I could not help but feel there was someone still watching me from within the shadows, a feeling that most likely had followed me from outside.
By Alixzandra Wiseman6 years ago in Horror
A Promise Kept
If one took a second to look at the shaking hands, they would conclude that it was age that caused the trembling. These hands were shriveled remnants of strength long since passed. Skin that was wrinkled and scarred was loosely wrapped around bone and withered sinew.
By Megan Chadsey6 years ago in Horror
Two Horror Films From The 70s That Are Underrated
I'll just go out and say that I find the 70s to be not only the greatest decades for cinema, but also quite frankly the best decade for horror films, period. Whenever I talk to fellow cinema lovers, they'll generally agree, that is of course if they indulge in that decade as often as I do.
By Michael Couvaras6 years ago in Horror
PAUSE: Unearthing 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' (1971)
Set during the uncertain times of pastoral early eighteenth century England, this period piece is folk horror at its finest. Often grouped in the same vein as 'The Wicker Man' (1973) and 'Witchfinder General' (1968), 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' packs a particularly memorable punch for those who have seen it. And its seeds of eeriness have been sewn in recent horror creations, such as 'A Field in England' (2013) and 'The VVitch' (2015). Despite this, 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' exists primarily these days as a movie dwelling mostly in cult status, with few testaments to its hidden brilliance. This is unfortunate, because, against the unfavourable odds of its low budget and aging special effects, 'TBOSC' is one of the few horror films to have truly unnerved me as of late.
By Dani Buckley6 years ago in Horror
Forgotten Time: Part One
There is a mansion of gothic Victorian elegance, hidden behind a tidy garden and a high iron fence that stops any unwilling soul wandering up the driveway to the ornate porch which shield the front door from the elements of bitter winters and cursed April showers.
By Alixzandra Wiseman6 years ago in Horror
