Critical essays on horror cinema — from classics to indie nightmares, and how film shapes the culture of fear.
For decades, horror has lurked in the shadows of our collective fears, but few subgenres cut as deep as religious horror. In 2025, this ancient fear is being reborn on the big screen with The Carpenter’s Son, a mysterious new film already igniting heated conversations across horror communities. While little is known about its plot, one thing […]
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When The Rocky Horror Picture Show first stumbled onto screens in 1975, no one could have predicted that this quirky, gender-bending musical would become one of the most enduring cult films of all time. While it leaned heavily into camp and outrageous fun, it still drew on the same primal fears that drive religious horror
Few figures in literature and film have gripped the human imagination as powerfully as Dracula. Emerging from the shadows of Eastern European folklore and immortalized by Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula has become a symbol that transcends centuries, embodying not only the fear of death and the supernatural but also the evolving anxieties of modern
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