Scary Movies
Planes, Trains, and Creeper-Mobiles: Jeepers Creeper’s Truck and the Big Rig from Joy Ride
Before we get to know the Creeper, we get to know his truck. From the first moment Darry (Justin Long) and Trish (Gina ...
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The Ultimate List of Scary Short Films You Can Watch Online, Ranked
To put together the ultimate list of scary short films, there is bound to be some subjectivity. One of the great things about ...
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Videodrome Explained: In the Future, What Happens to Our Bodies?
Videodrome may just be the quintessential Cronenberg film. With a dark plot that traces a slowly unraveling conspiracy, stomach-churning practical effects, and themes ...
Scary Movies
Adagio in D Minor, a Horror Movie Soundtrack Masterpiece
Adagio in D Minor, which debuted in John Murphy’s score to Sunshine, is one of the most beautiful compositions in soundtrack history. Hell, ...
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Top 10 Versions of The Thing’s Grotesque Monster Creature
It goes without saying that The Thing is a seminal work of the horror genre, and for me, it’s not only Carpenter’s most ...
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Speak No Evil Explained: How Being Polite Can Kill You
While doing some preliminary research for my post-doc research application, I came across the startling fact that most rapists, murderers, and all manner ...
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The Ritual Movie Explained: Nature as a Villain
(Warning: this article contains spoilers. Many of them. Read ahead at your own risk.) The Ritual, even on its surface, is an unusual ...
Scary Movies
Explaining X (2022): When Horror and Porn Combine
Horror and pornography are inherently linked. For many reasons. It’s not just about horror movies often succumbing to the nudity card in order ...
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Examining 28 Weeks Later… and Movies Like It
I’ve never been Team Zombie. Out of the pantheon of horror critters that exist, the Zombie always felt a little redundant. Slow, shuffling ...
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Hospitals and Horror: The Health Care System Demonstrated in Horror Movies
Medical quackery, mad doctors, and unorthodox lab experiments are the stuff science fiction nightmares and hospital horror movies are made of. The medical ...