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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
Wow! Just wow! Our little Treehouse of Horror tournament came to one hell of a nailbiter conclusion. Because, believe it or not, we have … a TIE!!! Yes, when voting closed yesterday, “The Shinning” and “Time and Punishment” were tied … Continue reading Best Treehouse of Horror Segment – Tournament: Results
There are all kinds of zombies out there – and that’s before getting into the weeds in talking about if mummies are truly zombies or their own thing – and different types work for different people. And, sometimes, contextually within … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 21: Best Zombie
Horror doesn’t have a huge presence in the realm of comics but there’s some good representation out there from various publishers and even the Big Two have a history with them going back decades before superhero publishing took over. Which … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 20: Your Favorite Horror Comic Book Property
Well, here it is folks, the final round of our Treehouse of Horror tournament. In a shocking twist, our final contestants are “Time Without Punishment” and “The Shinning.” Wait, did I say shocking twist? I meant the opposite of that. … Continue reading Best Treehouse of Horror Segment – Tournament: Final Round
One series that has definitely been interesting to watch in how it’s worked the magic of TV be reinventing itself each year in a way that’s really appealing, reusing much of the same cast but in new roles, is American Horror … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 19: Your Favorite American Horror Story
We’re going for picture day here today. Share your favorite costumes that you’ve seen over the years, either on yourself or just online in general. Maybe we’ll get some inspiration for folks in the waning days of the month! Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 18: Your Favorite Halloween Costume
There’s just something about a perfect soundtrack that will make everything all the creepier and up the horror quota. While I expect to see a lot of modern and more recent soundtracks talked about below, the one that stands the … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 17: Your Creepiest Soundtrack
The semi-finals are here, everyone! And I don’t know what to expect from this round, because Round 3 was a slugfest. For most of the voting, all of the matches were neck-and-neck, with each segment giving as good as it … Continue reading Best Treehouse of Horror Segment – Tournament: Semi-Finals
Though the focus in media on horror tends to dominate on film and with novels, the horror genre is alive and well in the world of video games. Today, we’re looking to see what you have found to be the … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 16: The Best Horror Videogame
here’s a lot of things to what makes horror work but the one that people often look for, especially when going to the movie theaters themselves, are great jump scares. Going through those as a communal event with others is … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 15: Your Favorite Jump Scares
