[ The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] At first glance, the premise of Junji Ito’s “Smashed” is almost...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Junji Ito’s “Hanging Blimp” features a brilliant moment of dark comedy....

From Max Schreck’s ghoulishly feral Count Orlok to Lon Chaney’s grotesquely disfigured Phantom of the Opera, the movie monsters of the...

Synopsis: The setting is the Lantz Institute, a clinic specializing in the study of sleep disorders. Despite the wide variety of...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Junji Ito’s Uzumaki begins unassumingly enough. The protagonist, Kirie...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When questioned about the underlying themes of Gyo, author Junji Ito...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Evil is a virus. As glimpsed in 2021’s Halloween Kills, its...

When Clive Barker decided to direct a cinematic adaptation of one of his own novellas (The Hellbound Heart) back in 1987, he was a...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, ghosts are real. Skeptics may...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Despite the clear iconography associated with the character, the...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In Bernard Rose’s original Candyman, the eponymous hook-handed...

You can feel them. Frigid as a bucket of ice water poured straight down your back. Eyes. The eyes of a stranger. Stalking you through the...

A pair of wounded samurai wade through a dense, endless sea of tall grass, leaning on one other for support. Every line on their...

A mother looks from the ticking clock on the mantel to the empty chair at the dinner table. She leans out the window and calls her...

Few cinematic serial killers ooze calculated creepiness quite like Sir Anthony Hopkins’ “Hannibal the Cannibal.” From the slurping to the...

The “villain” of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s tense police thriller seems to step into the story fully-formed–no past, no future, living entirely...

A few patches of wiry hair frame his otherwise bald head, sprouting just behind his pointed ears. Razor sharp talons flex at the end of...

[W]hat we are dealing with here is a perfect engine–an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim...

With Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry sold mankind a squeaky-clean vision of the future. A vast “new frontier” stretched out into the infinite...