Tue, February 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM UTC Perkins’ The Monkey deviates substantially from King’s original, both narratively and tonally. The film blends horror with comedy, with some of the goriest, ...

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“Longlegs” writer-director Osgood Perkins has returned this month with “The Monkey,” another nightmarish horror film with a shockingly violent edge. The similarities between the two movies more or ...

In another recent Halloween-themed post here, I discussed the psychology behind the nature of ghost stories and, to a degree, horror stories more generally. In response to a comment about what I ...

Spooky season is upon us and what better way to get in the spirit than by cuddling up with a good book? Horror novels are the perfect way to imbibe in Halloween time. When they’re good, they’re fully ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

From the grief-ridden The Babadook to the hauntingly atmospheric Let the Right One In, these films prove that the horror genre can be utterly sad.