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via RADiUS-TWC Although many people don’t think of horror as visually pleasing, true horror fans know better and are selecting the best eye candy in the genre. “What movies are best to look at, be it with good cinematography and colors,” wrote Dozinggreen66 in r/horror along with the examples Suspiria and Mandy, the former an ornate supernatural horror flick released in 1977 and rebooted in 2018 and the latter a recent Nicolas Cage-led psychedelic action-horror. They also cited 1964’s Blood and Black Lace and…

Image via A24 It wasn’t until the latter quarters of the 1900s that horror films began garnering the powerhouse of reputation we know them to have today; John Carpenter’s Halloween and The Thing, Academy Award winner The Silence of the Lambs, and other classics such as Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, and Friday the 13th have grandfathered in perhaps the most exciting horror era in history. And following in their footsteps is the wealth of great films that have come since the turn of the…

The DioField Chronicle, a new IP developed by Lancarse and published by Square Enix, is the latest in a growing trend of tactical RPG games. While plenty of those kinds of games have come out this year already (including Triangle Strategy, Relayer, and Digimon Survive). The DioField Chronicle intends to put its own spin on the genre and stand out in a crowded field. To get a sense of how The DioField Chronicle is setting itself apart, I spoke to Lancarse development director and battle designer Fukui Hirofumi, Square…

Books throw us into the world as much as they provide respite from it. Now that summer is here, I am reminded of the particular pleasure of lying reading on the grass. It’s a memory of adolescence, filled with sensuality: toes curled on to green softness; the sun, pulsing hot on bare legs; the book – Jane Eyre, or The God of Small Things perhaps – held aloft to keep glare off the face. But it also has an ethical charge. I was reading, as so many young women have read, to find out how to be a strong woman in an oppressive…

The Three Fields team looks to put all the mayhem under your control A new arcade racer tore onto the scene today, with some notable talent behind it and an intriguing focus on over-the-top action. Wreckreation is a new racing game from Three Fields Entertainment, aiming to bring more sandbox racing to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Three Fields, founded by former Criterion Games co-founders Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward, is turning its attention to creation with Wreckreation. Having put together games like 2019’s Dangerous…

Credit: HanWay Films Fans of horror, being one of the only mediums where death should be celebrated, are doing exactly as they should on Reddit and…celebrating their favorite (onscreen) murders. “Anybody have any favorite kills?” Redditor Human-Future-1674 wrote to kick off this magnificently macabre discussion. They broke the ice with two of their own fatal faves, both from the Friday the 13th franchise: “when Jason kills that poor bastard in the wheelchair and then shoved him down like 50 concrete steps” and…

Image via New Line Cinema The plight of the horror genre has been a fascinating one, from being skewered as torture porn back in the day to building itself up as one of today’s most poignant vehicles of social commentary. Horror has truly been to hell and back. But no matter where the genre was over the course of its history, it never failed to keep bringing in brand new enthusiasts just waiting for the next opportunity to get the pants scared off them again, even if the initiating film happened to find them…

Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images The action comedy remains one of the most popular and ubiquitous subgenres because it can be spun off in so many different directions, and one of the most specific-yet-popular iterations finds a cop teaming up with a canine partner. Dave Bautista is now poised to get in on the action, with the actor in talks to star in and produce Unleashed for Netflix. It sounds wildly uninspiring at first glance, but the project is set to be directed by Tag‘s Jeff Tosmic from a script…

Screenshot: Warner Bros./HBO MaxThe Warner Bros. and Discovery merger shake up continues, with increasing speculation over the fate of HBO Max and its original content. While DC Universe’s Batman spin-off The Penguin and Suicide Squad spin-off Peacemaker seem to be safe (for now, at least, per James Gunn’s “calm down” tweet and Colin Farrell’s recent Penguin enthusiasm), we can’t help but be a bit concerned about some of our other favorites—not to mention some in-development projects in the various genre franchises under…

A24 Horror is something of a success story in the world of genre fiction; what was once considered as nothing more than low-brow piles of shock value and torture porn, is now recognized today as a tool of poignant social commentary, story-telling, and masterful exploitation of our collective fears. For a genre that’s so vast and versatile, all while continuing to reach new heights, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where the building blocks all land in the history of horror. But Reddit has never been one to back…