Sanctifying Splatter-punk: Rage, Fear, and Embodied Play in Christian Art
Want to know what questions haunt our society? Ask horror.

Want to know what questions haunt our society? Ask horror.

The shock of something outside our own narrow range of experience is a much-needed spiritual tonic for all of us today.

Contrary to word on the street, In a Violent Nature is not a “deconstruction” of the slasher, nor is it a “meta” slasher.

Horror is a witness to the monstrous we wish we could explain away but cannot.

In the age of the “gritty” anti-hero, rare is the genre story that begins with the assumption that evil is real and must be dealt with.

Wade and Kevin talk about ‘The Conjuring 2’ and its presentation of faith along with the ESPN documentary ‘OJ: Made in America’.



A string of challenging moral quandaries flow like rivers beneath Craven’s films.

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