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DEEP DIVEJUN 09, 20268 MIN READ

Some Films Should Have Stayed Buried: The Lost Horror of the 80s

Before streaming sanitized everything, there were tapes. Unlabeled. Unrated. Passed hand to hand in parking lots and video stores that smelled like cigarettes and carpet cleaner.

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The Final Girl Is Dead. Long Live the Final Girl.

ESSAY

MAY 28, 2026·10 MIN READ

The Final Girl Is Dead. Long Live the Final Girl.

Carol Clover named her in 1992. Since then, the trope has been celebrated, subverted, deconstructed, and resurrected so many times it barely means anything. Or does it mean everything?

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Shooting in the Dark: A Conversation with SOV Horror Filmmaker Dale Pruitt

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MAY 21, 2026·15 MIN READ

Shooting in the Dark: A Conversation with SOV Horror Filmmaker Dale Pruitt

He made three films on a consumer camcorder between 1987 and 1991. None of them were released. All three are now considered lost classics by the people who have seen them.

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Analog Horror and the Uncanny Valley of the Real

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MAY 14, 2026·9 MIN READ

Analog Horror and the Uncanny Valley of the Real

The Mandela Catalogue. Local 58. Gemini Home Entertainment. A new generation of horror creators is using the grammar of VHS and broadcast television to create something genuinely new.

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MAY 07, 2026·7 MIN READ

Hollow Ground (2024): The Void's Own Film, Reviewed

We made it. We're reviewing it anyway. Hollow Ground is the kind of rural horror film that doesn't announce itself — it just arrives, and then it stays.

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