Written by Ronnie Mason (@scifimonkeys) The second installment of the Couch-a-Thon Film and Music Festival is in full swing and they have partnered with Crypticon Seattle to bring you an entire evening dedicated to the world of independent horror. The two plan to bring us many of the films that would have been at the… Read More A Night Of Indie Horror With Couch-A-Thon and Crypticon Seattle
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
