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Special effects may be lacking, but vintage horror films still manage to keep our palms sweating and blood pumping; a look back at retro horror films, stories, books and characters that prove everything is scarier in black and white.

Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Night of the Comet' (1984)
My god, this movie is so fucking bad. Every damn thing is wrong with it. I mean, they didn't get a damn thing right. So why do I love it so much?
By Reed Alexander3 years ago in Horror
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Evil Dead is a low-budget Sam Raimi film (his first I think) that has become a cult classic due to the excessive bloodletting, mutilation, gore, and other demonic effects, all centered around a "story" of a few college grad students, or frat brothers and sorority sisters (there are five of them--two guys and three girls), who drive for a "holiday" up into rural Michigan for a night at a log cabin. The cabin turns out to be possessed by legions of demons. It stars relative unknowns, except for the redoubtable and handsome Bruce Campbell as "Ash," who has become a sort of low-budget horror and B-Movie genre icon, starring in the Evil Dead sequels such as Army of Darkness, as well as the short-lived cult TV "Wild, Wild West" homage "The Adventures of Brisco County Junior." He's a handsome dude with a square-jawed visage and is always perfect for these parts.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror
distorted reality
What should I do? I previously discovered a secret passageway, and the door to it has since vanished. I have already tried looking for the catch while pretending to drink from my water glass with one hand hidden behind my back. Now all of the painted wall is just a single solid panel. That access point has been blocked! I use the opportunity to toss my head around while brushing my hair in an effort to give the impression of composure while frantically searching every corner of the room for additional ideas.
By Gabriel Toure3 years ago in Horror
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Cabinet of D. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is Robert Wiene's Expressionist nightmare brought to cinematic life by the amazing performance of Conrad Veidt as Cesare the Somnambulist, Werner Krauss as the Doctor himself, and the amazing visual look, borrowed from surrealism and Expressionism until the actors are simply living foreground against a warped painting of things in an in-between world between consciousness and subconscious madness. It is a dark, grainy, and ancient vision brought forth from the bowels of a mind haunted by turmoil, by a sense of the mechanisms of psychic control that can possess and shape us all.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror
Chasin'Jason
The film is as simple and brutal and bloody and beautiful as an old campfire tale: in 1964 a couple of camp counselors are killed at a summer camp, Camp Crystal Lake. Flash forward to 1980, and some hitchhiking hippie chick fresh out of 1978 catches a ride with a local guy at a diner, after being warned by an Ancient Mariner (i.e. a crazy old coot) about staying away from Camp Crystal Lake, that it has an honest-to-badness curse on it, and people...die. Later, she hitches a ride up there, going to her new position as a camp counselor cum slasher movie cannon fodder with an unseen driver in a jeep. The driver stalks and slashes, but the POV is the audience, which makes THEM, or rather, US, the killer, drawing us into the ritual of blood.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror
Madness and Moonlight
Madness and Moonlight Madness And Moonlight is a Romance, fictive, history Short Story
By Gabriel Toure3 years ago in Horror
"The Haunting of the Hostel: A Ghost Story of Redemption"
There once was a hostel located in the heart of an old, quiet town. The hostel was surrounded by a dense forest and had a reputation for being one of the most haunted places in the area. Many people came to stay at the hostel to experience the ghostly sightings and strange occurrences that were rumored to happen there.
By Krish3 years ago in Horror
Hotel of Horror;
There was once an old abandoned hotel, nestled in the heart of the forest. The hotel had been closed for many years, and it was said that it was haunted by the spirits of the guests who had died there.
By Abbas Ali3 years ago in Horror
Top Horror Place In The World
Top 10 Horror Place In The World 1. The Island of the Dolls (Mexico) - This island in Mexico City is known for its collection of dolls that are said to be possessed by the spirit of a young girl who drowned in the nearby canal.
By Himanshu Chaudhary 3 years ago in Horror
The Beach Girls and the Monster
The Beach Girls and the Monster is a relentlessly dumb 1965 "horror" film, with a bunch of curiously skinny (for their era) beach babes dancing on a beach before one of them gets killed by a guy with a rubber monster mask that looks totally fake. There are a few guys with them but nobody comes to the rescue, and there are three bloody claw marks across the beach bunny's beautiful kisser.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror
Backrooms Decrypted: The Gift Plane (Enigmatic Level)
The Gift Plane - The Backrooms - Enigmatic Level. It has a CLASS 4 survival difficulty rating. It has a MEDIUM ENTITY COUNT and is UNSAFE and UNSECURE. The Gift Plane is a European-style town that looks to be in the midst of Xmas or the winter period in general. The temperature is extremely low, and snow is constantly falling, sometimes totally covering off sections. The gift plane is always dark, and most buildings are filled with conventional furniture and Christmas decorations, with the exception of the infrequent sleeping bag left by deserted populations. 🌪☁🌫😩👤🌫☁🌪
By Info3 years ago in Horror
Backrooms Decrypted: The Frontrooms (Enigmatic Level)
Enigmatic Level - The Backrooms - The Frontrooms. It has a CLASS 0 survival difficulty rating. It is SAFE, SECURE, and FREE OF ENTITIES. The Frontrooms refers to any location outside of conventional reality. It's outside The Backrooms, which is frequently called into doubt by the presence of The Blue Channel. The Frontrooms resides in the space of one "universe," which contains an uncountable number of galaxies. A single galaxy can have billions of stars, most of which have a cluster of planets around them. 😭🐾👿
By Info3 years ago in Horror