This post contains spoilers for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Like all media that depicts witches and paganism, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina remains rooted in the fantastic. Unlike all the other media that depicts witches and paganism, the series uses its fantastic nature to achieve the closest depiction of modern witchcraft to date. It didn’t start… Read More CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA and Modern Paganism

Horror can be so many things. It’s that indisputable fact that makes the “is this really horror” conversation so utterly exhausting. Some people prefer slashers, others folk horror, and others still a good old-fashioned slow burn. No, I’m not going to list every subgenre. You get what I’m trying to say here. Horror reaches far,… Read More The Humanity in Horror

“In Europe, between the 15th and 19th centuries, it is estimated nearly eight million people were convicted of heresy and executed by fanatical witch hunters, in order to save their souls. Their deaths on the scaffold or the funeral pyre was, for them, the release from agonizing torture which had often lasted for years. This… Read More 50th Anniversary Retrospective: Mark Of The Devil

Every so often, I come across a film that is so groundbreaking that it feels like I found a huge piece in the puzzle of film history. A movie that influenced many of the techniques used in the movies we all know and love. One such film is the 1967 Russian classic Viy (pronounced “VEE”).… Read More Viy (1967) | Review

The connection between horror and fiction has been strong for a long time and we see influences from authors and books in horror movies constantly. With each work created – in film or in literature – the original stories are sometimes forgotten or cast aside and don’t receive as much attention as others. Enter The… Read More Discussing the Haunted Library of Horror Classics with Editor Eric J. Guignard