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Hello everyone and welcome to my series on queer horror throughout the years, Queer Horror 101! We’ll cover a variety of movies and topics, and spoilers will abound so be warned. The plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s gothic masterpiece Rebecca (1940) … Continue reading Queer Horror 101: Rebecca (1940)
DCeased Hardcover Writer – Tom Taylor Artists – Trevor Hairsine and Stefano Gaudinao A couple of weeks ago, the hardcover of DCeased: Hope at World’s End was released, and this was the impetus for me to catch up on the … Continue reading Comic Book Review – DCeased Hardcover
I’m sure I’m not the only one here who has been using media to help get through the pandemic. With our social lives cut off and our movements restricted, many of us have turned to television and film — new … Continue reading Queer Horror 101
The Summer movie season is in full swing after the successful releases of Cruella and A Quiet Place II. Theaters are starting to reopen but the option to stream movies at home is still an option. This discussion thread is … Continue reading Spoil Sport – The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Discussion Thread
A warlock stalks a twink at a seaside resort. Rival witches seek control of ancient magic. Everyone has lots of sex. Dante’s Cove is a supernatural soap opera with a heavy dose of camp. A clever idea that suffers from … Continue reading LGBT Media: Dante’s Cove
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Normally, here on Public Domain Theater, I … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Mesa of Lost Women (& “Foney Fables”)
Maniac of New York #1 Writer – Elliott Kalan Artist – Andrea Mutti Every week, I get an email from Things From Another World about their final order cutoff for comics coming out soon. I always check the offerings to … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Maniac of New York #1
Writer – David A. Byrne Artist – Francesa Fantini My friends Cole, Nick, and Todd run the Comic Burrito Livestream on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I tune into their interviews with comic creators on Saturday nights to learn about upcoming comics … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Stake #1
Happy Halloween, everyone! Welcome to a special, All Hallows’ Eve edition of Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for … Continue reading Public Domain Theater (Halloween Special): The Terror
“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been … Continue reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Comments
And here we are, at the last question of our horror challenge, and we’re going to go a little nostalgic. We’ve mixed in some Halloween themed items over the month because it’s all tied together but we want to go … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 30: Your Favorite Halloween Memory
I’m trying to figure out how to word this properly and this is very much coming from an American-centric perspective, so forgive me there. While most of us grew up with the “traditional” creatures of darkness with vampires, werewolves, zombies, and … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 29: Your Favorite Non-Traditional Creature
One of the more unnerving things that shows up in way too many horror films for some people’s tastes are clowns. Goddamn clowns. There are a lot of different types out there and when they populate a horror film of … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 28: Your Scariest Clown
We haven’t talked too specifically about shows in this month’s challenge though we’ve covered the TV side once or twice before. For this question, we want to look at one of the longer-running shows that delved into the horror side … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Treehouse of Horror Episode
We haven’t talked too specifically about shows in this months challenge though we’ve covered the TV side once or twice before. For this question, we want to look at one of the longer-running shows that delved into the horror side … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 26: Your Favorite X-Files Episode
The fact you can do a horror movie with just a house and people in it and never show any actual creature or being causing the problem shows one of the many ways the mind works to handle stressful situations. … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 25: Your Favorite Haunted House
The spooky side of horror revolves around some familiar types but one that permeates it the most in the minds of many are ghosts themselves. There’s something haunting about the idea depending on your views of the afterlife and the … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Spooky Ghost
With the larger focus of horror monsters in many mediums still being all about the vampire or the recent push of the past decade+ with the zombies, the werewolves continue to find love in some places, but never quite as … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 23: Your Favorite Furry Monster
The story of Frankenstein’s monster is one that has lead to plenty of pedantry over the year’s (“He’s not called Frankenstein!”) but the culture attachment is what it is regardless, so let’s be frank. There are a lof of interpretations … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 22: Let’s Be Frank
