supernatural
The hidden world of all things supernatural; a look inside witchcraft, spells, vexes, black magic and other spine-tingling supernatural phenomena.
DON'T MESS WITH DOLLS
DON’T MESS WITH DOLLS We'll have to travel to Japan and go all the way back to 1918. A young guy called Eikichi Suzuki was traveling across northern Japan when he came upon a little 16-inch-tall kimono doll for sale. He bought the doll without hesitation and gave it to his two-year-old sister Kikuko when he arrived home. The small girl was so taken with the doll that she named it Okiku after herself. A year later, however, Japan was overwhelmed with yellow fever, an infectious and terrible epidemic that killed many people, including Kikuko.
By Tolani Temitope3 years ago in Horror
Whispers from the Past: Highland Towers' Eerie Hauntings Unveiled - Part 3
Chapter 5: The Ghost Custodian In the midst of the blessed passages of Good country Pinnacles, one story stands apart as remarkably charming — the baffling story of the Apparition Custodian. This unearthly researcher is in many cases seen, not in the fantastic assembly halls or the twilight nurseries, yet in the tranquil isolation of the pinnacle's library, classifying information that rises above the limits of the living. As we investigate the profundities of this ethereal mystery, we are brought into an existence where the quest for information gets through even past the domain of the residing.
By Kyrol Mojikal3 years ago in Horror
The Film That Scared Me Most as an Adult: Hereditary. Content Warning.
Trigger AND spoiler warning --- For much of my adult life, I didn't think very highly of the horror genre. I still enjoyed a good scary movie, but entire years seemed to go by without the slightest deviations from the standard old formulas. Each year brought with it a new onslaught of blockbusters with a recycled series of jump scares and ghastly looking ghosts, demons and ghouls. I'd grown to accept that the horror genre as a whole was something tired and contrived.
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
3 Iconic Horror Movies That Haven't Aged Well
I might be a bit of a modernist, but I'll always give credit where it's due. In the case of so many of history's most famous movies, sometimes a story can truly endure through the generations (The Shining, Alien, the best episodes of The Twilight Zone).
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
'Pet Sematary: Bloodlines' - A Cinematic Offbreed Fit to Its Name
I might've been fashionably late (by several decades) with my first Pet Sematary review. Being a 90s child, though, I suppose I have my excuses. But there's really no reason I couldn't at least grace the world with my thoughts on the 2019 remake before a pandemic swept the world. And for that, I owe you all an apology, and a promise to do better.
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
The Intrinsic Terror of 'Pet Sematary' (1989)
Of all of Stephen King's stories, perhaps none is more innately chilling than Pet Sematary. Where Stanley Kubrick's The Shining terrifies the viewer with its slow-rolling and measured portrayal of isolation in the sprawling Overlook Hotel, what director Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary provides is utterly visceral in its simplicity. Where The Shining opens to a car slowly winding its way up a desolate mountainside, Pet Sematary's introduction to the characters is marked by the abrasive passing of a speeding tanker. Pet Sematary is devoid of the subtletly that defined the Kubrick horror classic.
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
The 'Halloween Trilogy': Because 10 Halloween Movies Weren't Enough
Watching the new Halloween Trilogy is funny when you know Jamie Lee Curtis - not as the veteran actress who made her acting debut four and a half decades ago as Laurie Strode in the original 1978 Halloween movie - but as the rigid, hot dog-handed, mixed martial arts-trained, self-stapling tax attorney from Everything Everywhere All at Once. Even with a list of credits that stretches back to the days of Jimmy Carter's presidency, it's hard to unsee her for her role in that famously bizarre, interdimensional odyssey of a film.
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
'It: Chapter Two' - The 'Grownups' of Horror Movies
By the sounds of it, It: Chapter 2 has all the makings of a hit movie. With an all-star cast, spearheaded by the unforgettable Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown, and a skilled team of writers, directors, and special effects artists, it was a follow-up poised to be one of the great horror films of the decade. But where it falls apart lies almost entirely in the feelings of warmth and nostalgia from the prior iteration that it woefully fails to recapture.
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
'Doctor Sleep': The Flawed and Forgotten Sequel to 'The Shining'
Many may know that Stephen King was no fan of the Stanley Kubrick movie made from his 1977 novel, The Shining. Yet, the creative liberties taken with the film have forever altered the story's legacy. For King, Kubrick's take on the novel simply failed to embody what he'd written. He famously summed up the differences by noting that while the book was warm, the movie was cold.
By Ben Ulansey3 years ago in Horror
