horror

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Film

Rebound Review (Film, 2014) The Archives

Rebound is an indie psychological horror about a young woman, Claire, trying to restart her life. She walked in on her boyfriend cheating on her, dumped him, and kicked him out of the apartment. Still everywhere she looks, she can’t get his image out of her head. She chooses to drive cross-country b

Books/Print

step, a story

I’ve written so many versions of this story. I’ve lived it more times than I care to admit. Yes, on a bad mental wellness day, a step ladder can and will cause a panic attack. All credit to me: writing, recording, editing. [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Film

Scare Package Review (Film, 2020)

Scare Package is a bit of a different beast. The stories are connected by the idea of film itself. The cold open sets up the film as a meta horror, with a man dissatisfied with his career as a cold opener character in a horror film. His job is to flip the street sign or plant the cursed object in th

Film

Fat Girl Review (Film, 2001) The Archives

Fat Girl is the exception that proves the rule. Breillat presents the masterpiece of the New French Extremism in this unnerving suspense/horror about two young sisters exploring their sexuality on vacation. The older sister, Elena, is a beautiful young woman who falls head over heels for a college s

Books/Print

the day, a story

I’m using a different format this week. The text art is cute, but this story felt a bit too serious to keep locked to that format. the day, a story All credit to me. [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guk9TLcJ6Y8&w=854&h=480]

Film

Eli Review (Film, 2019)

Eli suffers from a rare chronic illness. His family is not sure exactly what triggers it, but exposure to the outside world causes his body to react as if he’s being burned alive. They travel to the remote treatment facility of Dr. Horn who promises a cure through her own method of gene therapy. She

Film

The iMom Review (Short Film, 2016)

“The iMom” is a satirical horror/sci-fi short by writer/director Ariel Martin. It opens with an infomercial advertising the benefits of a a digital mother surrogate (including actual footage of one of the increasingly realistic androids being developed in laboratories) before shifting to an overtaxe

Games

Dead by Daylight: Chapter XVI: Silent Hill Review (PC DLC, 2020)

Dead by Daylight’s newest DLC “Chapter XVI: Silent Hill” is inspired by Konami’s­ iconic horror series. The new killer The Executioner is based on Pyramid Head, a villain any 90s horror fan will have forever stuck in their head. The new survivor is Cheryl Mason, star of Silent Hill 2, though there a

Books/Print

twitch, a story

I find the best fiction is based in some type of reality. This is what I feel like when I have a migraine. I’ve been thinking about them more since the heavy course of medicine that trashed my body 5 years ago to make them go away permanently isn’

Film

Our House Review (Film, 2018)

Ethan believes he has invented a device that can provide wireless electricity. After a failed test run at the college campus and a tragic loss in his family, Ethan discovers that his invention has an alternate purpose. This wireless electricity generator actually creates a portal between the world o

Film

10 Cloverfield Lane Review (Film, 2016) The Archives

10 Cloverfield Lane is the giant monster attack/apocalypse horror film we deserved when the original Cloverfield came out in 2008. That film was an ambitious but messy shakycam disaster film with the bones of a good intimate horror/survival film trapped inside.

Books/Print

Comb It!, a short story

Call this one from the OCD memory bank. I still get really anxious when trying out a new product. I have to read through the manual or instructions front to back to make sure it’s safe before trying. The tiniest little quirk in the language can set me off.

Film

Confessional Review (Film, 2020)

This film is meant to leave you feeling angry about injustice in the world. It’s also an unrated horror film that has no content warning or parental advisory on it. The provided plot description is intentionally vague to avoid spoiling anything.

Film

The Falling Review (Film, 2015)

The Falling is, quite honestly, one of the strangest horror films I’ve ever seen. After the death of their close friend Abbie (Florence Pugh), a group of young women in a boarding school begin to experience uncontrollable fainting spells and mass hysteria. Is it the spirit of Abbie speaking through

Film

Head Count Review (Film, 2019)

In Head Count, Evan goes to visit his brother in the middle of the desert. He runs into Zoe and her friends, who invite him to join them for a party at their rental house. They take turns reading scary stories around the campfire. Evan pulls up a poem from an anonymous story website that warns of wh

Film

Hush Review (Film, 2016) The Archives

Hush is a home invasion horror film about a deaf novelist being tormented by a total stranger for no reason. I could also say that Hush is a modern home invasion horror film and be accurate enough.

Games

Dead by Daylight: State of the Game and Silent Hill Chapter

Dead by Daylight celebrated it’s 4th anniversary on Tuesday, 26 May. They made the most of the new normal with a great mix of video montages and live discussions. Lots of things were announced.

Film

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made Review (Film, 2019)

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made takes it a step further. The first 10 minutes and closing credits of Antrum are short documentaries about the history of a lost horror film called Antrum. Film historians and critics describe the legacy of a tiny, independent, barely-released horror film. Apparen

Film

The Den Review (Film, 2014) The Archives

The Den is a horror film inspired by the rise of Chat Roulette and similar random video chatting sites on the internet. Elizabeth receives a grant from her university to study the impact of relative anonymity on conversations in The Den, the film’s cipher for Chat Roulette. She stumbles into a world

Film

Polaroid Review (Film, 2019)

Polaroid is a paranormal slasher film about a haunted camera. Bird is a high school student who loves photography. Her friend Tyler gifts her a rare instant camera from the 1970s, which she gleefully uses to start taking photos of her classmates. Then her friends start dying one by one under mysteri

On Wed. We Write Fiction

loose threads, a story

This week’s story is loose threads. A lot of my horror is inspired by my experience with my OCD. This one is no exception. Just understand that the less spoken element of OCD is the obsessive thoughts, a running monologue of insecurities and chain reactions that can make you

Film

Mandy Review (Film, 2018)

Mandy is a lot. This is a horror/sci-fi/revenge film defined by excess on every level. It is something wholly unique in the world of modern cinema.

Film

Subspecies Review (Film, 1991) The Archives

Director Ted Nicolau and writers Jackson Barr and David Pabian do not touch on much new ground in Subspecies. That’s not always a bad thing. If you a going to retread well-worn horror ground, you need to tell a good story and tell it well. Subspecies is a prime example of this.

Film

Sweetheart Review (Film, 2019)

Jenn wakes upon the beach after surviving a shipwreck. The only other survivor has fatal injuries and passes before she can save him. She is alone on a deserted island and the only signs of life she can find are evidence of her deadly circumstances—a molded cooler, a bag with expired medicine, and r

On Wed. We Write Fiction

Jamie-boy, a Short Story

This week in On Wednesdays, We Write Fiction, I revisited one of my favorite unpublished short stories. The original form of Jamie-boy was at that perfectly awkward length too be both too long and too short for most horror journals/magazines to want to publish. It was too dark swing