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Lights Out: Living life while trying to stay in control.

WEBWhile in this hospital, Sophie meets Diana and forges a friendship as healthy as a host to its succubus. Diana is in the hospital for manipulating her father into killing …

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Eight Medical Horror Films (and Two Shorts) to Watch in Quarantine

WEBHUMAN FORM (2014), dir. Doyeon Noh (available on Youtube). Human Form opens with a girl, In-Hyung (Si Yeon Kim), drawing princesses with huge eyes full …

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What Makes a Great Horror Movie

WEBWhat we learned from our polls is that a great horror movie combines amazing sound design with an incredible score. It also needs scares that are so …

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Hereditary and the Changeling Myth

WEBThe influence of one of pop culture’s best-known demon children, Damien (Harvey Stephens) of The Omen (1976), menaces the characters of Hereditary. Unlike …

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Josh Malerman’s A House at the Bottom of a Lake

WEBNewly published through This Is Horror, A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman is both incredibly simple and complex at the same time: its basic …

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The Good Son and the Moral Breakdown of Childhood

WEBSynopsis. The film begins with 12 year-old Mark Evans (Elijah Wood) coping with the recent death of his mother. Mark’s father, Jack (David Morse), brings him to the …

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Disability in Don’t Breathe: Victim, Villain, Blind Man

WEBIn Don’t Breathe, three thieves (Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, and Daniel Zovatto) break into the house of a man (Stephen Lang) who has received a large …

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The Fawn Response – A New Way of Thinking about Folk Horror

WEBJDC Burnhil is a writer with an MFA from Emerson College who resides in New England, possibly even aboveground. He is a contributor to the volume Somebody, …

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Bedpans and Broken Ankles: Nursing Practices in Misery

WEBSo, when she attacks Paul for insisting that Misery’s death in childbirth in the eighteenth century was by chance—that “she just slipped away”—she accuses him of murder. She …

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Top 10 Films About the Horrors of Caregiving

WEBPet Sematary (1989) Any of you who know me, know that Pet Sematary is one of my all-time favorite films. This film shows the lasting ramifications of being placed …

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The Evolution of Mental Illness’ Monstrosity in Horror Films

WEBTwenty-first-century horror cinema takes time to explore the way in which mind is shaped—made monstrous—by the environment. A case in point is Shutter …

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Saint Maud: Who Cares for the Carers

WEBThe plot of Saint Maud (dir. Rose Glass) follows Maud (Morfydd Clark), whose horrific experience in a hospital led her to become a private carer for the dancer …

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Night of the Living Dead in the Time of Confinement and the …

WEBBrian Fanelli is a poet and essayist whose works has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, World Literature Today, The Paterson Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley …

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The Twilight Zone Episode That Anticipates Get Out

WEBJordan Peele is on board as one of the executive producers of a reboot of The Twilight Zone, apparently coming to CBS All Access.Even without this clear …

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From Misery to Sympathy: Redeeming Annie Wilkes in Castle Rock

WEBKristen A. Leer and Cody Parish. Introduction. At the time of its release, Misery (1990) was one of only a few horror films that depicted female psychosis, with actress Kathy Bates …

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Night at the Gates of Hell Review: A Bricolage of American …

WEBWith its graphic depictions of dismemberment, campy cast of characters, and eye gouging scene à la Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2 (1979), Night at the Gates of Hell plays …

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Silent Retreat (2016) Review

WEBSilent Retreat also becomes more narratively complex as it goes along, which helped immeasurably to heighten the suspense. Around two-thirds of the way …

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The Ward (2011) Review

WEBThe Ward. July 2011 | (USA) | John Carpenter | 89 min | R. Synopsis: Kristen (Amber Heard) is admitted to the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital in 1966 after she sets …

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Zelda in Pet Sematary (1989) Revives Images of Family Repression

WEBZelda has spinal meningitis. Both her life and her illness are locked away from sight. On a visceral level, the audience is prepped to align with the “normal” sister …

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