Editorials

This whole month, I’ve been trying to watch horror anime that demonstrates the range of the medium. We’ve had emotional stories, thrillers and impossibly weird non-linear storytelling, and all of it fits into one subgenre of horror or another. One thing we’ve been missing, though, is a mind-peeling, hair-whitening, balls-through-the-wall …

Anyone with their finger on the pulse of music news will have noticed longtime metal band Slipknot gracing headlines over the past several months, and for many reasons. As a fan myself, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of the band’s sixth studio album, We Are Not Your Kind (pre-order …

Anna and The Apocalypse is quickly becoming one of my time favorite films, and I’m here to tell you why. I’ll start with the soundtrack, which is what draws me back to this brilliant film over and over again. All of the songs are very catchy and well written. In …

In our last AniMay review, we focused on Naoki Urasawa‘s Monster (you can read the article here) and anime’s potential to step outside of itself and tell a straightforward horror/thriller story. This week, we’re stepping back into anime’s wheelhouse with a story about one of the most persistent tropes in …

Hey, everyone! Sorry I have been gone a while. Things have been hectic… but suddenly I felt inspired to write about why I love the cult classic horror comedy, Shaun of The Dead. You can read another writer’s inspired retro review of the film right here. In case you’ve been …

It’s week 2 of PopHorror’s month long horror anime deep dive. This means it’s time for something different. In last week’s article on When They Cry (read that one here), we discussed this quintessential horror anime, which is full of hyperbolized emotions, wonky pacing, reliance on Japanese folklore, and environmental …

Tucker and Dale VS Evil is a backwoods horror comedy that became an instant classic that was released back in 2010. Since then, fans have been clamoring for a sequel, and we just heard that there’s finally an update. Recently, Tyler Labine, who played Dale in the film, commented in an interview …

There are very few horror movies that affect me like the ones that come out of Japan. Steeped in the myths and folklore of the region and dripping with a pantheon of fears I don’t understand but feel with every inch of my skin, Japanese horror movies like Takashi Miike’s …

Today we celebrate May Day; a day that honors springtime festivities embedded in ancient times. The present festivities in certain countries tend to focus more on celebrating a day for workers, but ancient traditions offered up the pagan rituals surrounding singing, dancing, and often human and animal sacrifices. All of …

With the 30th anniversary of Pet Sematary arriving, it’s time to ask a very important question: which version of Zelda is the best – the one from 1989 or the one from 2019? Thirty years ago, Director Mary Lambert unleashed Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (read our retro review here) upon …