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The 10 Best Christmas Horror Films: Let Those Slay Bells Ring | Zavvi

The Portrayal of OCD in 'Black Swan' | Film School Rejects

Make the Yuletide Gay: Why We Need More Queer Christmas Movies | Film School Rejects

How 2011 Found Footage Horror Megan Is Missing Brought TikTok Together in 2020 | Paste Magazine

​Video Nasties, Censorship And A Celebration Of The Extreme | Zavvi

The Ending of 'Possessor' Explained | Film School Rejects

Paul W.S. Anderson Is The King Of Video Game Adaptions | Thrillist

The Ending of 'The Matrix' Explained | Film School Rejects

The Evolution of Male Nudity in Rape-Revenge Films | Certified Forgotten

The Ending of ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ Explained | Film School Rejects

'Webcast': A Movie Marriage Of Found Footage And Folk Horror | Certified Forgotten

The Timeless Nihilism of ‘Se7en’ | Film School Rejects

Realizing You're Just a Fantasy in I'm Thinking Of Ending Things | RogerEbert.com

​The Honest and Complex Portrayal of Immigration in ‘Lingua Franca’ | Film School Rejects

​How One Shot from ‘Host’ Encapsulates the Film’s Horror | Film School Rejects

Host And The Cultural Relevance Of Found Footage | Shudder's The Bite

The Multifaceted Career of Brendan Fraser | Film School Rejects

A Journey Down Elm Street: Reflections On The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise | Zavvi

The Many Faces of Peter Stormare | Film School Rejects

Chicken Run At 20: Ginger, Female Empowerment And Revolutionary Spirit | Zavvi

DOGTOOTH, Yorgos Lanthimos' Strange Reflection On Control, Celebrates 10 Years | Nightmare On Film Street

​Diary Of A Teenage Girl: On The Wry Optimism And Weird Girl In Juno | READ ME: Girls On Tops

Thank You | Haw Creek Horror 

When A Prank Backfires: Revenge In Brian De Palma’s Carrie | Zavvi

The Trouble With Memory and Control in The Works of Alex Garland | Film School Rejects

Femininity and OCD in Swallow | RogerEbert.com 

 [Editorial] Battling for Control in the Face of Trauma in ‘Swallow’ | Bloody Disgusting

Woman as Alien in Dorothy Arzner's 'Christopher Strong' ​| Film School Rejects

Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft | theQuietus

Sins of the Father: How Horror Can Break The Ties That Bind | Haw Creek Horror

An Apple a Day Does Not Keep the Creepy Men Away in ‘Revenge’ | Film School Rejects

Horror Movies, They’ve Always Been Political | Zavvi

Dancing Aliens And A Screaming Christopher Walken: COMMUNION As A Camp Masterpiece | Nightmare On Film Street

10 Years of Blending Truth and Fiction in 'Lake Mungo' | Daily Grindhouse

Trouble At Sea: Maritime Superstition In The Lighthouse, Sea Fever And Harpoon | theQuietus

The Dread Lurking In The Shadows Of ‘The Strangers’ | Film School Rejects

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Is A Horror Movie. Here's Why | Nightmare On Film Street

15 Years Later, CONSTANTINE Still Serves As A Unique and Fascinating Vision Of Hell | Nightmare On Film Street

Recognizing the Predatory Gaze in ‘Mandy’ | Film School Rejects

10 Of The Best Horror Soundtracks To Own On Vinyl | Zavvi

After 10 Years, DAYBREAKERS Serves As A Story About Surviving Trauma | Nightmare On Film Street

​The Scariest Scene in ‘Hereditary’ Is Its Simplest | Film School Rejects

A Bird’s Eye View of Fear in ‘30 Days Of Night’ | Film School Rejects

​[Invisible Week 2020] THE X-FILES ‘Je Souhaite' is a Comic Change of Pace | Daily Grindhouse

The Surprising Body Horror in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ | Film School Rejects

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[New Year's Eve of Destruction 2019] THE END OF EVANGELION (1997) | Daily Grindhouse

Creating Fear Using the POV Shot | Film School Rejects

​The Many Romances and One True Love of Dr. Manhattan | Film School Rejects

​Leather As Power In Turn-Of-The-Millennium Genre Film | Film School Rejects

Zavvi’s Best Movies Of The Decade: Hereditary | Zavvi

99 Percent Savior: In Contemporary Horror, It’s the Final Girl versus the Rich | Bitch Mag

​​Monster Mash: Televisual and Vaginal Body Horror in ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘Videodrome’ | Much Ado About Cinema

When The Party’s Over: How Women Reclaim The Rape-Revenge Story | READ ME: Girls On Tops

The Complicated Power of Princess Mononoke’s Villain, Lady Eboshi | Film School Rejects

The Arrow Video Titles You Need To Watch This Halloween | Zavvi

​The History and Transformation of the Final Girl | Film School Rejects

In ‘Alien,’ Horror Comes In The Form of Labor Exploitation | Film School Rejects

Cinema’s Deadliest And Most Terrifying Horror Games | Zavvi

The gut-wrenching predictions of Satoshi Kon’s masterpiece 'Perfect Blue' came true | Polygon

​Navigating Male Fantasy in Charlie Says and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood | READ ME: Girls On Tops

15 Years Ago, M. Night Shymalan's THE VILLAGE Gave Me A Role Model | Nightmare On Film Street

[Editorial] The Emotional Rise of Cosmic Horror | Bloody Disgusting

From Page To Screen: Examining 30 Days of Night's Trek From Graphic Novel To Film | Nightmare On Film Street

'Midsommar' takes a step forward and a step back in its portrayal of mental illness | Polygon

Queen of the Hill: 7 Films That Wouldn't Exist Without Legendary Producer Debra Hill | Nightmare On Film Street

​Horror, OCD, and Me | Much Ado About Cinema

​Using Animation to Imagine Terrifying, Glorious, and Queer Futures in ‘Love, Death, and Robots’ | Much Ado About Cinema

“Who The Fuck Is On Top Their First Time?” Demystifying Virginity in Lady Bird and Beyond | READ ME: Girls On Tops

Female Director Spotlight: The Radical, Feminist, and Czech Filmmaking of Věra Chytilová | Much Ado About Cinema

10 Rising Female Horror Directors to Watch | Nightmare On Film Street

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​Badass Women, Stunning Visuals, and Subverting Expectations: Looking Back at This Year in Horror | Much Ado About Cinema

​The Horrifying Soundscape of ‘Hereditary’  | Much Ado About Cinema

​Female Director Spotlight: Dorothy Arzner and Making Films for Women in the 1930s | Much Ado About Cinema

God? No God: Returning to 30 DAYS OF NIGHT | Nightmare On Film Street

​Get Seduced by the Ghostly Eroticism of ‘Kuroneko’ | Much Ado About Cinema

​A Gory Reimagining of the Slasher Film in ‘High Tension’ | Much Ado About Cinema

​Coming of Age and Little Monsters in ‘Der Nachtmahr’ | Much Ado About Cinema

​The Psychosexual Terror of ‘The Untamed’ | Much Ado About Cinema

Seeing Double In David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS | Nightmare On Film Street

The Unexpected Body Horror of ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ | Much Ado About Cinema

The lesbian slasher What Keeps You Alive challenges the horror genre | Polygon

​Criterion Month: The Wild and Traumatized ‘Godzilla’ Universe | Much Ado About Cinema

​Criterion Throwback Review: George A. Romero’s Taboo-Breaking ‘Night of the Living Dead’ | Much Ado About Cinema

The 5 Biggest Scares In M. Night Shymalan's SIGNS | Nightmare On Film Street

Horror Film’s Terrifyingly Harmful Use of Queer Tropes | Much Ado About Cinema

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