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Top 3 Hidden Gem TV Shows You Should Binge Watch
We're all spending a lot more time in front of our screens these days, keeping ourselves inside where we're safe and waiting for the pandemic to blow over. For a lot of us, that means we've already chewed through our list of shows we've been meaning to watch, and we've chased it with our old favorites that we turn to in our times of need. If you're coming up dry for new shows to feed that hunger inside you, and you'd like some fictional fears to deal with as a change of pace, here are three spooky shows that even diehard horror fans may have missed.
Neal LitherlandPublished 3 years ago in Horror
'Fantasy Island' Review—Unscary and Painful
If I could go to an island where I could have any fantasy I ever wanted, it would be an island where movies this bad don't get made.
Jonathan SimPublished 3 years ago in Horror
5 Masterpieces of Alfred Hitchcock
At the end of the XIX age, a man was born in London who was prepared to create a new direction in cinema - a unique genre of suspense, which kept in suspense and makes the viewer tremble in anticipation of something incredible and frightening.
The Belsnickel
1. Mary Alice Sherwood disappeared on Halloween night. Every bit of her, right down to her crooked bunny ears and the powder puff tail pinned to her white coat, was swallowed by the chilly, bonfire-smoky dark of the Woodside suburb in which she lived. She was eight years old, trick-or-treating with her peers in her safe neighborhood under the admittedly relaxed supervision of a young sitter, and she was never seen again. The respectable, upwardly mobile households of Woodside shrank in upon themselves in shock and disbelief for a time, neighborhood watches became vigilant once again, and children were confined to their yards where parental eyes could fall upon them at any moment. Now, as Christmas approached, holiday furor and excitement displaced the sharpest spur of fear, and the Sherwoods’ tragedy had faded a bit from the forefront of neighborhood conversations. After all, no one really knew them very well. They kept to themselves, in the cul-de-sac of Hemlock Circle, where their only neighbor was an empty house for sale. The search continued for little Mary Alice, the police patrol car still made its rounds several times a day, and the residents of Woodside would have gathered in sympathy around the Sherwoods had they been welcome. They were not.
Liz ZimmersPublished 3 years ago in Horror
Encyclopedia of the Deaths in the Smith Family
Alabama: One of the fifty states in the United States of America. Where Sarah and her parents and her grandparents and their grandparents have lived.
Kat L'EsperancePublished 4 years ago in Horror
Childhood Halloween Specials Worth Revisiting
Halloween is almost here! Nearly everyone has a favorite Halloween special from their childhood, even if they did not grow up in the US.
Kristy AndersonPublished 4 years ago in Horror
11 Best Horror Movies from the 1950s
The 1950s were a period of time where horror started to become a part of the consciousness of the American population. It wasn't quite something that was taken seriously as it would become in the 1960s, but it was still certainly fun. In this blog, I'll be talking about the best 11 horror movies from that beginning era. They're not entirely in order, except for the first one.
Fear and Fiction
When we discuss horror in literature, there are several things to keep in mind. What are the cultural currents of the time? What is its era? What characterizes the fear which might be felt by those special few who vie for terror? It is with the mind towards these questions that we should look at horror, viewing it with the strong views that Lovecraft did. He attached horror to several themes present within his own time—in particular eugenics, quantum mechanics, and theosophy. These different themes influenced the way he viewed horror and the way his society would receive his horror. The difficulty of modern times is analyzing how horror should go forwards. We have seen the H. P. Lovecrafts, and Edgar Allan Poes, and Stephen Kings.
Ellen HowellPublished 4 years ago in Horror
The Black Corridor
Preface: April 17th, 2023: It is interesting to note that CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, the dissolute, decadent Victorian French poet who championed Poe and drank himself to death, was born April 10th. He authored the infamous "Litanies of Satan." Of course, Arch-Satanist ANTON LAVEY was born April 11th. The singer TINY TIM, who was a friend to Satanist and avant-garde musician Boyd Rice, who was a protege of LaVey's and was pegged to head up the Church of Satan after LaVey's death, was born April 12th. ADAM PARFREY, the maverick publisher behind Feral House books, who published the books of Anton LaVey, was born, also, on April 12th. Nice.
The Winchester Mystery House and Other Mirrors
One of the house's 40 bedrooms, specifically the one where Sarah died. “She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”—Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
kit vaillancourtPublished 4 years ago in Horror
Making Monsters
It’s unlikely that the settlers of the Southern Nevada desertscape expected a museum of horrors to become a cornerstone of their peaceful early-20th-century city. Yet 88 years later, a decorated hearse, a zombified Spider-Man, and a conspicuous sign touting "Tom Devlin's Monster Museum" have been erected as markers for one of Boulder City's hottest roadside attractions.
Mark LoProtoPublished 4 years ago in Horror
'Happy Death Day'—A Movie Review
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Well, that sounds encouraging! But, didn’t I just hear those exact same words yesterday? And the day before? And a week ago? Something is strange! I have been repeating the same day over and over for a whole week now!
Marielle SabbagPublished 4 years ago in Horror
