What can the philosophy of games tell us about our odd impulse to scare ourselves? By Elisa Gabbert

Whether it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Stephen King’s The Shining, horror stories have spellbound readers since Greek and Roman times...

How director Lee Cronin resurrected a long-dead zombie franchise with clever scares, undead kids and a lot of fake blood

Horror is a movie genre that provides a very mixed bag in terms of quality. There have been some bona fide masterpieces in the genre, such as The Birds,

Fright Rags has plenty of new collections taking inspiration from classic and modern horror films but a recent announcement for an officially licensed Evil Dead Rise collection has me very excited for April. An Instagram post from yesterday revealed the next big film to be included in a collection with an eerie “You don’t look so good, Mom…” starting off the caption.

Between cancellations, delays and lost luggage, airline passengers aren't shy about sharing their "travel nightmares". But these misfortunes pale against the ordeal of the pilot who got sucked through the windscreen of BA5390.

In the official trailer for “Evil Dead Rise,” the next film in the long-running horror franchise started by director Sam Raimi, two sisters named Beth and Ellie seek to protect their family when hordes of Deadites flock Ellie’s apartment building. Alyssa Sutherland plays older sister Ellie, who raises three children on her own in a cramped Los Angeles apartment, and Lily Sullivan plays Beth, who takes a road trip to reunite with her sister. The visit is interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious book that summons the Deadites, forcing the two to defend themselves and the children.

Despite what the Academy Awards and Sight and Sound polls would have us believe, horror is and has always been the lifeblood of cinema. During the pandemic, when theaters across the country were closed, it was an indie horror movie that had fans showing up to drive-ins and keeping the box office alive. When productions across the globe had closed up shop and gone home to await further instructions, it was a horror filmmaker who found a way to make a movie entirely over Zoom and gave movie lovers something to talk about.

Very sad news has come in as it has been reported that Ted White, the actor and stuntman especially popular with horror fans for his unforgettable performance as Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, has died. The news was revealed by horror documentarian Sean Clark with a post on Facebook noting that he’d gotten word about White’s passing. He was 96 years old.

Mad Heidi is an action-adventure-comedy-horror parody of the much-loved children's storybook character Heidi. Now all grown up, Heidi is just a girl from the Alps in an alternative Switzerland that has fallen under fascist rule. Little does she know that her yearning for personal freedom will be the spark that ignites a revolution. From fondue torture to death by chocolate, Mad Heidi is a true Swissploitation film. Think Kill Bill meets The Sound of Music.

In Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire novel Dracula, the eponymous count warns his pursuers, “My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.” Those who have read the novel or watched one of its countless adaptations will know that the count’s threat was empty. His revenge, and the count himself, were literally cut short. But while Dracula the character was killed, Dracula the book remains immortal, with horror readers and authors of all eras since genuflecting to its example.

The game Granny: Chapter Three is an excellent horror, combined with a puzzle, in which it is proposed to be in the house of one evil old woman.

After a decade, Frictional Games returns to the Amnesia franchise with Amnesia: Rebirth--this time, the devs are utilizing the lessons learned from working on SOMA.

Cannibalism is one of the most universal taboos. Frowned upon in nearly every culture around the world (even if there isn't always a law on the books to punish this very specific act), cannibals populate the worst of our ghost stories and horror movies. From Sawney Bean and his clan in the hills of Scotland, to Hannibal Lecter in Silence of The Lambs, cannibals are everywhere.

David Livingstone Smith, author of On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It, explains why it's the metaphysical threat posed by Halloween creatures that gives them their horrifying power.

In 1994, The Blair Witch Project was released in cinemas, onto an audience unprepared for a film so uncomfortably genuine. The found-footage style movie showed us three students headed into the Burkittsville woods in Maryland to make a film about the local legend of the Blair Witch. They were never seen again. All that was found was the disturbing tapes of their recordings. I’ve loved the film ever since it’s release, so when I heard there was a game coming out called Blair Witch, I was beyond excited. It was released yesterday and I’ve already played for about two hours on Xbox One.

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As reported by Entertainment Weekly, HBO’s various streaming platforms will be getting a new original anthology show on February 1 called Folklore that explores spooky myths from across six countries in Asia—specifically Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Japan. Each installment of the six-episode series will focus on the “supernatural beings and occult beliefs” of a different country, with each one coming from different directors and being presented in the native language of its country.

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