**Beware…spoilers for Backrooms below.** I saw Backrooms on a Tuesday while drinking overpriced theater wine. Which…might be the correct way to encounter a film about the horror of never fully facing yourself. Later that night, I — half in awe,…
Agustina Bazterrica‘s 2023 horror novel The Unworthy, translated into English by Sarah Moses in 2025, is set at the end of the world. The apocalypse is nigh: the environment is collapsing, society is in ruins, and every living being’s survival…
Vampires are my favorite monsters. In much of Western film and literature, vampires represent a threat to the social order a community relies upon. But they’re not the kind of threat that attacks directly in a loud, confrontational way. No,…
The scariest thing about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance isn’t the body horror — it’s the multi-generational transmission of trauma. This is not simply a story about an aging woman being cruelly replaced by a younger competitor in a cutthroat industry.…