Decadence is a hothouse flower that bears the richest blooms at night. Shadows mask the lurid and yet, heighten and enhance the atmosphere of the lush and the languid. Faces and dark acts that few whisper and even less shout. ...

There’s a certain cache, a type of thrill if you will, when you’re a monster kid edging firmly into your awkward teen years. Running on the rocket fuel of exhiliratingly frightening hormones, you still have held on to your love ...

In the forbidden corners of an ornate and dusty room lies a reel of beauty, of vice, of shadowy lust and repression. Written in a scrawl that is uniquely lovely in the blackest of oil-inks is the title, Sin. The ...

“You’ve come a long way, I know, you got a longer drive ahead through the bones of a buffalo, through the claims of the western dead and just like the spokes of a wheel you’ll spin ’round with the rest, ...

In the land of the killers, the mother’s boy will be king. That said, it takes a special kind to really stand out. In Irvin Berwick’s 1977 horror-that-could-have-been-ripped- straight-from- the-headlines film, Hitch Hike to Hell, we get a killer and a situation ...

“We thought we were driving South In our late model hearse We had no clue we were headed From bad to worse” “The Vampire Roadtrip” by The Hammerdowns There is something so quintessentially American about road trips. I’m not talking ...

In the still of the night, I walk with the Beast in the heat of the night, I sleep with the Beast Who slipped so deep inside me and rots the love right out of me The Gun Club’s “Walking ...

“The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.” -Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Fear of the unknown comes in multiple stripes with one of the most common and intrinsically human being ...

The pathology of serial murder has always been tricky in horror cinema. Plenty of films have documented and displayed the easiest aspects, namely the killings themselves, but fewer have examined the real meat of the matter. Which are the inner ...