Art, Culture, Literature

Hasbro! Kenner! Mattel! You know them! They’re those companies that made My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Star Wars, Barbie, and any and every movie tie-in toy. Police Academy toys?? YEAH, actually I DO want that — THANKS, KENNER! I ...

Growing up in Australia as a horror-loving kid in the late-70s, few things fed my imagination and excitement quite like that feeling when the Thursday newspapers arrived. Thursday was the day when the cinemas nationwide would update their programming so ...

Elisabeth Brooks in Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981) The Howling is one of my all-time favorite horror films. I discovered it as a child, and it was one of the rare horror movies that my dad enthusiastically introduced me to.It’s ...

This past year saw the reemergence of Spike Lee as a filmmaking powerhouse with his latest effort BlackKklansman, the true story of a black cop’s unlikely integration into the Ku Klux Klan. With the critical success of Klansman, many people ...

Stephen Volk’s name is well established among horror fans. His writing is iconic: from the screenplay for Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986) to Ghostwatch (1992) – the mockumentary that traumatised England – to the acclaimed ghost story, The Awakening (2011). This ...

Back in February 2011, Danny Boyle’s production of Nick Dear’s drama Frankenstein at the National Theatre was one of the hottest tickets on the London stage. While there’s no doubt that the involvement of the 28 Days Later and Slumdog ...

A collection of beautiful, dark, strange, and hilarious moments, the sparse narrative of Noel Freibert’s graphic novel Old Ground occurs entirely within the withered Old Maple Grove cemetery. Composed in dripping black splotches and lines so fine they might better ...

Listen — when a Taoist priest tells you to “suck the coffin mushroom, now” you best pucker up, because that and the blood of a black dog might be the only things keeping you from dancing atop a bed of ...

Mention the name Ralph Bates to a Hammer Films enthusiast and you are most likely assured of a positive response. His work for the legendary production company was well received by fans and critics alike throughout the years. Beginning with ...

Human beings generally tend to view science and the supernatural as oppositional forces: the bright light of rationalism forever struggling against the darkness of outmoded superstition. However, in the nineteenth century, as new technological developments and the accelerated pace of ...