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The Walking Dead Refuses to Permanently End
The Walking Dead is one of the few televisions shows that I was believing was officially going to end on season 11, saying goodbye to a show that started off strong, experienced a downfall for two seasons straight, and it luckily ended strong with mixed feelings from fans.
By Emy Quinn17 days ago in Horror
The Thing from the Grave Deserved to Be its Own Movie
Don't let the image above fool you. Yes, this episode does focus on a young woman posing for a photoshoot, but the start of this episode is one of strongest introductions to a Tales from the Crypt episodes. A man named Delvin is trying to save a woman he has fallen in love with. Another man named Mitch appears to Delvin in the dark, confronting him. He kills Delvin and buries him outside of a cabin.
By Emy Quinn28 days ago in Horror
Are Maggie and Negan Going to Get Together Romantically?
A lot of Walking Dead spinoffs have been quite questionable lately, and with the new direction that Dead City is heading into, I'm starting to think this show was one of those bad ideas. Dead City follows the story of Negan and Maggie, who are now stuck trying to survive together. I haven't seen the show yet, nor do I understand the full context as to why Maggie is stuck with Negan, but like many other Walking Dead fans, these two should never get together.
By Emy Quinnabout a month ago in Horror
'Fair Haired Child' is a Twisted Grimm Fairy Tale Version of a Princess Falling for Her Prince
Masters of Horror is one of my favorite horror collections ever made. I accidentally discovered the series on Tubi while I was browsing through the horror section, and I stumbled upon a horror series that I instantly fell in love with. While some of the stories didn't exactly hit a home run for me, some of them were definitely memorable for all the right reasons.
By Emy Quinnabout a month ago in Horror
La Femme Nikita is One of the Darkest Television Shows Ever Made
La Femme Nikita is a television show that was released sometime in the late 90s to the early 2000s. It follows the story of a young woman named Nikita, who is taken off the streets to be forced into the life of a government spy. She joins a group known as Section One, that consists of many people like Nikita that won't be missed, and they are all each trained to become fighters or to help the government program in some way.
By Emy Quinn2 months ago in Horror
The True Story Behind Jungle (2017): How Yossi Ghinsberg Survived 19 Days Alone in the Amazon
Many survival movies claim to be "based on a true story," but Jungle (2017) tells one that is astonishingly real. The film is inspired by the incredible experience of Yossi Ghinsberg , an Israeli backpacker who became stranded alone in the Bolivian Amazon in 1981. His story is not just about surviving the wilderness—it is about the extraordinary strength of the human mind when faced with seemingly impossible odds.
By PDZICOX2 months ago in Horror
Inside the Closet
We'll preface this by stating that "Inside the Closet" is one of the best episodes of Tales from the Darkside . It was directed by Tom Savini, the makeup-effects virtuoso from the golden age of practical horror.
By Tom Baker3 months ago in Horror
Nile Jarvis is One of the Scariest Villains in Television
Nile Jarvis was depicted in the television show, called The Beast in Me, where he plays a sociopathic monster that delights in hurting others. He was suspected in the beginning of the show for murdering his wife, and this turns out to be true, but there was another twist added to his character that I did not see coming.
By Emy Quinn3 months ago in Horror
Last Scene
Reality and illusion—both are intertwined, inseparable. Both are matters of pure conjecture. Both are experienced solely by the YOU you think of as I. After all, you're not accessing reality through someone else's eyes, their sensory inputs.
By Tom Baker3 months ago in Horror
127 Hours of A Living Nightmare: The Five Days Aron Ralston Spent Trapped Beneath a Boulder. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Alone in the Silence On the morning of April 26, 2003, 27-year-old Aron Ralston set out for what should have been another ordinary adventure. An experienced climber and outdoorsman, Ralston drove into the remote wilderness of Utah's canyon country. The destination was Bluejohn Canyon, a narrow and twisting slot canyon carved through red sandstone over thousands of years. He told no one where he was going. No itinerary. No emergency contact. No rescue plan. It was a decision that would nearly cost him his life. Within hours, Aron Ralston would find himself trapped in one of the most horrifying survival situations ever recorded—a nightmare that would force him to make an impossible choice between death and self-mutilation. His story would later inspire the film 127 Hours. But the reality was far more brutal than anything Hollywood could fully capture.
By E. hasan3 months ago in Horror
"Don't Read This Alone: What Happened to Me at [Place]"
# The Night I Questioned Everything *What started as a normal night ended with me questioning everything.* --- It was a Tuesday. I remember that detail clearly, because Tuesdays were never supposed to matter. Tuesdays were for laundry, for reheated leftovers, for falling asleep on the couch with the television murmuring something I wasn't watching. Nothing happens on a Tuesday. That's what I believed, right up until 11:47 PM, when my front door creaked open on its own.
By younas khan3 months ago in Horror
The Echoes of Blackwood Manor
art 1: The Bargain at the Gates The wrought-iron gates of Blackwood Manor didn't just creak; they groaned like a dying man. For twenty-something podcaster Liam Vance, however, that sound wasn't a warning—it was pure gold.
By Kamal ali3 months ago in Horror