pop culture
Pop culture for horror junkies; all about the famous films, creepypasta tales, trends and tropes that bled from the fringes of fright into the macabre mainstream.
The Black Phone - A Movie Review
If I’m going to get out of here, I’m going to have to outsmart him. The Black Phone is a 2022 film based on a short story written by Joe Hill. A 13-year-old boy is abducted by a child killer. Locked up in a soundproof basement, Finney receives calls on a disconnected phone. The killer’s previous victims give him advice.
By Marielle Sabbag4 years ago in Horror
The Monster Lives
Truth is subjective, especially on silver screens. Everyone is an actor with a role to play, a story to tell. Sitting in the theater chair yet another movie about the monstrous Dracula had been released, funny how my story has been told for decades and yet each adaptation is less truthful than the last. Honestly, the most faithful would have been the one released in 1992. The actor that portrayed me, I had to do a double-take and make sure I had not accidentally exposed myself on screen. But the story was ever still in more favor of the heroes rather than the villains. Surely, they cannot keep portraying Mina Harker as a damsel in distress – she was anything but that. She wanted to flee Jonathan for me, and yet the times would not allow it. Then there was Lucy Westenra, the film had it show that I appeared as a dog to her? No, farthest thing from the truth.
By Gabriella Tschudy4 years ago in Horror
5 Horror focus YouTube Channels I would recommend
Horror, for me, is more than just ghosts which scream “Boo” at the screen. Or the gruesome end of soulless characters at an even more soulless killer. It is perhaps the genre with the widest scope of potential. It is a platform to discuss social issues, or human struggles. To manifest trauma, or detail a message through fright. It is, through history utilized for cheap fright, perhaps one of cinemas greatest platforms to artistically portray abstract themes. It seems, over recent years and the emergence of A24, this potential has begun to be realized in the mainstream. Such an opinion I just previously stated has become commonplace and fairly universally understood. With it, a fascination of horror theory. Horror themes, the theoretical analysis of these tales academically.
By Martin S. Wathen4 years ago in Horror
Top 10 Weird Facts and History About Ouija Boards
Number One Mark Twains Secret Unpublished Book In 1902, Emily Grant Hutchings claimed to have contacted the spirit of Mark Twain who then dictated a book to her titled Jap Heron. The book was heavily criticized by the New York Times.
By Fiona Percival4 years ago in Horror
