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The Most Compelling Lovecraft Video Game Is About Hundreds Of Adorable Penguins

Penguin Colony tears down colonial overtones of H.P. Lovecraft's works by removing the player from any anthropological sensibilities, exhuming the genre instead of excusing it

By Zack Kotzer Published October 18, 2026

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The Mortuary Assistant Film Director Jeremiah Kipp Passes Away

The underground horror community is mourning a charitable filmmaker, who sharpened his fangs on numerous indie scares

By Zack Kotzer Published October 17, 2026

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Anime Gambling Horror Game Ditches Free Steam Demo So It Doesn’t Get Ripped Off By AI

Drunken Goddess Reflux will have a closed beta instead

By Ethan Gach Published October 16, 2026

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MatPat And Blumhouse Productions Collaborating On Amanda The Adventurer Movie

YouTube’s ‘Game Theorist’ and Hollywood’s horror house have signed a multi-project deal to turn more mascot menaces into big screen hits

By Zack Kotzer Published October 10, 2026

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The Secret Behind The Resident Evil Movie’s Weirdest Monster Is Incredible To Watch

While the practical effect didn’t pan out for Zach Cregger’s final product, there were humans behind the 'human tumbleweed' seen rolling through the movie

By Zack Kotzer Published September 27, 2026

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Theater Gives Fans A Perfectly Faithful Resident Evil Adaptation To Accompany Zach Cregger’s Movie

If the Weapons director is burnt out on adapting video games, there's an assistant manager in O’Fallon, Missouri that Capcom could reach out to

By Zack Kotzer Published September 20, 2026

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Buddy The Unicorn Kicked Out Of Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights

The theme park’s increasingly popular Halloween season continues to amass more and more movie maniacs, assuming they’re invited

By Zack Kotzer Published September 6, 2026

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Beloved Evil Dead Star Bruce Campbell Says He Has Five Years Left To Live

The iconic cult movie actor gave an update on his earlier cancer prognosis, which prompted a startling retirement from film and the convention circuit earlier this year

By Zack Kotzer Published September 5, 2026

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Fully Playable Online Scream Game Discovered In The Massive Steam Leak

People are playing a never-released Scream game online after it leaked over the weekend

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 1, 2026

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The 7 Abominations I Consumed At Canada’s Biggest Fair

As the annual carnival overlooks the failures of Ontario leadership, the most upsetting news is regarding the ice cream s’more Oreo crusted fried chicken sandwich

By Zack Kotzer Published August 30, 2026

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Great New Horror FPS Is Like BioShock, But With More Action And Creepy Clowns

Hey, at least you get to shoot all those clown bastards with gumballs and marbles in Twisted Tower

By Zack Zwiezen Published August 20, 2026

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Body Horror Bon Vivant And Game Designer Screaming Mad George Dies At 69

The special-effects sorcerer conjured his specific brand of big-screen grotesqueries through Freddy Krueger, Predator, and the PlayStation’s most surreal pinball game

By Zack Kotzer Published August 17, 2026

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Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma Wants To Have Its Cake And Splatter It Too

Director Jane Schoenbrun continues their odyssey into childhood fixations, this time with a painterly but often obnoxious unraveling of gloriously problematic VHS horror

By Zack Kotzer Published August 15, 2026