“Horror” Articles

Spring suggests that to be truly human is to love in a manner that transcends any evolutionary roots.

Angelina Jolie returns in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and Wade and Kevin also offer their first-time impressions of 1973’s classic, The Exorcist.

Jordan Peele’s Us critiques who we are as a nation and people, and from where we’ve come.

For Algernon Blackwood, the natural world is not just natural: it is animated, enchanted, redolent with presences most often detectable only apart from our five senses.

William Hope Hodgson’s dark works are not without glimmers of something like light.

There is something deeper that lingers in the human psyche—something more than the experience, or a twisted desire for evil—something that horror taps into and awakens.

It’s shockingly awful and shockingly compelling as horror because Paxton’s character remains so upsettingly loving and so fatherly throughout, clearly, sincerely believing in the killing he’s doing.

What is it about the idea of things, powers, and beings beyond nature that draws people into these stories?

A fallen world displays a prodigal beauty, even a horrendous beauty at times.

Arthur Machen’s novel The Three Impostors is a good reminder about the horrors of living in a godless cosmos.

For all their lack of subtlety, zombies dramatize many of our deepest inner conflicts.

Drew talks to Jonathan about his article ‘Horror Games: They Aren’t All Bad’ and how the darkness isn’t something to be ignored or afraid of.

Yes, it is possible for horror video games to have redeeming qualities.

Wade and Kevin offer their Alien retrospective as well as a review of the latest movie to feature a spacebound band of doomed souls, Alien: Covenant.

Special guest Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com joins Wade this week to discuss the first Marvel movie of 2017, Logan.

The spiritual side of things come out on this episode of The 25 as “Dr. Strange”, “Speechless”, and “Lore” make the nomination list.