Afraid and Alone #12: Resident Evil Requiem (2026)
** Spoiler Free! ** In which a 30-year-old series mashes together all its most iconic elements…and it actually works? Continue reading Afraid and Alone #12: Resident Evil Requiem (2026)
Tag: Horror
The best genre, the horror… the horror
Afraid and Alone #11: Alone in the Dark (1992)
One of the grandfathers of survival horror. Also the only horror game I’ve played where you have a sword fight with a pirate and feed soup to zombies. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #11: Alone in the Dark (1992)
Afraid and Alone #10: Cronos: The New Dawn (2025)
Don’t let them merge. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #10: Cronos: The New Dawn (2025)
Afraid and Alone #9: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (2008)
A meditation on memory and identity, as well as exorcising ghosts using a magical camera. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #9: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (2008)
A Ghost Story for Giftmas: “Mousetraps”
Settle in for an original ghost story as told by your host, Great Boos Up… Continue reading A Ghost Story for Giftmas: “Mousetraps”
Afraid and Alone #8: Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)
Afraid and Alone #7: Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024)
There was a hole here. It’s gone now. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #7: Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024)
Afraid and Alone #6: Resident Evil 4 (2005)
In which Blip discovers what it is like to be on the opposite end of popular opinion for an iconic game. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #6: Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Afraid and Alone #5: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999)
“You want S.T.A.R.S.? I’ll give you S.T.A.R.S.!” Continue reading Afraid and Alone #5: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999)
Punk Fiction
The Delivery Based on a true event November, 2012 Curtis Young pointed the mail truck down the hill and swore under his breath as the first snowflakes spattered against the windshield. This day could officially not get worse. He’d suffered … Continue reading Punk Fiction
LGBT Movies: Love Bites (1988)
Kevin Glover’s Love Bites is a gay vampire softcore romcom. An amateur vampire hunter falls for his handsome target. Can love conquer all? Glover wrote the script for the stage. But filming on location, and releasing to VHS, proved more … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Love Bites (1988)
Afraid and Alone #4: Silent Hill f (2025)
Beware the fog. And the spider lilies. And men in fox masks, too, while you’re at it. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #4: Silent Hill f (2025)
Afraid and Alone #3: Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019)
Say what you will about Umbrella Corp, but at least they have the good sense to dress their best bioweapon up like a fashionable mobster. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #3: Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019)
Public Domain Theater: The Little Shop of Horrors (& “Skeleton Dance”)
The classic Roger Corman horror/comedy (and basis for the Alan Menken horror/comedy/musical) plus a spooktacular cartoon from Disney’s Silly Symphonies. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Little Shop of Horrors (& “Skeleton Dance”)
Afraid and Alone #2: Resident Evil (HD Remaster) (2015)
A ten-year-old remaster of a twenty-three-year-old remake of a twenty-nine-year-old game… Continue reading Afraid and Alone #2: Resident Evil (HD Remaster) (2015)
Afraid and Alone #1: An Introduction – Crow Country and Signalis
One Avocadoan’s journey delving into the realm of survival horror. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #1: An Introduction – Crow Country and Signalis
The Internet Has Rediscovered a Terrifying Piglet Game
“There’s no hunny in Hell, Pooh.” Continue reading The Internet Has Rediscovered a Terrifying Piglet Game
Punk Fiction
Desert Wolves Hello and thanks for reading! Another horror-pulp/urban fantasy short story for the Spooky Season. It takes place in the same setting as the other “Punk Fiction” stories, but it focuses on the other side as it were. Hope … Continue reading Punk Fiction
LGBT Movies: Make a Wish (2002)
Every year Susan organizes a birthday camping trip. She’s dated, and broken up with, all of her friends. Yet they somehow still show up. This time things go wrong. A killer is picking the women off, one by one. Is … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Make a Wish (2002)
Ad Space – Every Halloween Ever
We look at the trailers for every film in the Halloween slasher series. Continue reading Ad Space – Every Halloween Ever
Public Domain Theater: Dementia 13 (& “Spooky Swabs”)
Kicking off Halloween season with a horror movie directed by Fracis Ford Coppola (yes, really) and a Popeye the Sailor cartoon involving bedsheet ghosts. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Dementia 13 (& “Spooky Swabs”)