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Video games
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Bloodborne is being turned into an R-rated animated film

Sony is adapting Bloodborne into an R-rated animated feature with producer Seán McLoughlin.
Video games
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Bloodborne is being turned into an R-rated animated film

Sony is adapting Bloodborne into an R-rated animated feature with producer Seán McLoughlin.
Independent films
fromInverse
3 days ago

An Acclaimed Cosmic Horror Game Is Becoming A Movie - With A Surprising Twist

Video game adaptations are thriving, with Bloodborne set to become an R-rated animated film true to its original gory spirit.
Film
fromWIRED
4 days ago

A New Horror Movie Depicts Realistic Snuff. That's Not the Most Disturbing Thing About It

The reboot of Faces of Death reflects modern society's exposure to real violence through social media and its impact on viewers.
Video games
fromGameSpot
1 week ago

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Is Twisting French Legends Into Nightmare Bosses

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse returns to classic 2D action, set in 1499 Paris, featuring new enemies and gameplay elements.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades

Cameron Reed's science fiction explores cognitive estrangement, revealing alien worlds that reflect and challenge our own societal norms and moral dilemmas.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Dimension 20 Is Finally Doing A Vampire: The Masquerade Campaign

Dimension 20 has primarily used Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition across its campaigns, with occasional side quests using other systems. The main cast has only deviated from D&D for the sixth campaign, A Starstruck Odyssey, which utilized an unofficial Star Wars system.
DC food
fromAnOther
1 week ago

Night Stage: Anatomy of a Modern Erotic Thriller

The illicit thrill of hidden desires definitely propels Night Stage, a riveting queer noir about an up-and-coming actor Matias and an aspiring politician Rafael who begin hooking up in public spaces.
Film
Writing
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

The King of My Unrealized Mythical Erotica Dreams

Spring inspires imagination and exploration of fantasy erotica, highlighting the appeal of art that transcends traditional boundaries.
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'The Serpent's Skin' Will Fill the 'Buffy'-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

The heart of The Serpent's Skin is the romance between Anna, a soft-spoken young trans woman, and Gen, a tattoo artist witch who traveled around the world to find her.
Independent films
History
fromMedievalists.net
3 weeks ago

Medieval Goths and Goth Music: The Surprising Connection - Medievalists.net

The Goths influenced modern goth music, linking a historical Germanic tribe to contemporary cultural styles.
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Anki King's Nordic Noir

Anki King's work suggests an intimate engagement with New Image painting, particularly the later work of Susan Rothenberg, but she took it in a direction that is recognizably hers.
Arts
#horror
Independent films
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Sure, They Will Kill You, But Can They Get On With It Already?

They Will Kill You satirizes rich Devil worshippers while contrasting them with the mundane lives of actual Satanists, challenging stereotypes and societal fears.
Independent films
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Sure, They Will Kill You, But Can They Get On With It Already?

They Will Kill You satirizes rich Devil worshippers while contrasting them with the mundane lives of actual Satanists, challenging stereotypes and societal fears.
Books
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

What to read this weekend: Revisiting Project Hail Mary and The Thing on the Doorstep

The miniseries adapts Lovecraft's story, focusing on friendship, murder, and the gradual descent into madness with unsettling visuals.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Carnivale revisited: is this HBO's strangest show?

Carnivale, an HBO series cancelled after two seasons, follows a carnival traveling through 1930s America while weaving parallel stories of a mysterious ex-con and a visionary preacher destined to collide in cosmic conflict.
Writing
fromThe Walrus
4 weeks ago

Frankenstein Taught Me the Classics Are Alive, They're Really Alive! | The Walrus

Frankenstein explores themes of unchecked ambition and responsibility, paralleling modern concerns about artificial intelligence and the creation of consciousness.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Fear is good': my scary subterranean journey into Underland, the film of Robert Macfarlane's dazzling book

Filmmaker Robert Petit explores underground spaces through his documentary Underland, discovering that subterranean environments offer people freedom and existential transformation away from surface world constraints.
Board games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Our Dark Lord Cthulhu Awakens In This Lovecraftian Adventure

The Dark Rites of Arkham is a point-and-click adventure game set in Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham, where Detective Jack Foster investigates ritualistic murders linked to mystical cults and ancient gods.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Something Strange Is Happening With Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture.

BookTok readers increasingly prefer first-person narrative perspective in romance and fantasy novels, viewing third-person narration as unnecessarily complex and off-putting.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Monsters and madness and men, oh my! The Terror is the unsung treasure of peak television

Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Dan Simmons, it chronicles a doomed Royal Navy expedition dispatched to the Arctic in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Under the leadership of Captains Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, manned with 129 crew, set sail from England in 1845. They became locked in pack ice off King William Island in the winter of 1846.
Television
NYC LGBT
fromQueerty
1 month ago

This Victorian era teen lesbian love affair ended in murder, consumption... & an opera - Queerty

Alice Mitchell murdered her lover Freda Ward in 1892 Memphis, shocking Victorian society with evidence of a passionate lesbian relationship between two middle-class women.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The place that stayed with me: I would not have become a writer were it not for Iceland

Lying in my bed, I listened to what sounded like a woman screaming outside in the dark. I picked up my pen. A month of living in this Icelandic village and I was still unaccustomed to the impenetrable January gloom and the ferocity of the wind; its propensity to sound sentient. I had started to feel like the island was trying to tell me something, had a story it wanted me to write.
Travel
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Medieval Books: A Demon Spirit - Medievalists.net

Abū Nuwās's poetry is sheer joy: it never fails to delight, surprise, and excite. His diwan, his collected poems, encompasses the principal early Abbasid poetic genres: panegyrics ( madīḥ), renunciant poems ( zuhdiyyāt), lampoons ( hijāʾ), hunting poems ( ṭardiyyāt), wine poems ( khamriyyāt), love poems ( ghazaliyyāt) to males ( mudhakkarāt) and females ( muʾannathāt), and transgressive verse ( mujūn).
History
fromInverse
1 month ago

A Beloved Horror Epic Just Dropped Its Biggest Twist

Lestat gets an interesting alert on his tablet: a new book by Daniel Molloy called Interview with the Vampire is about to come out. Louis tries to defend himself, claiming he destroyed Molloy's laptop and didn't know the book, written with a cloud-based copy of Molloy's data, was being published until a month ago. But Louis' failure to warn him just bristles Lestat more.
Television
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

Vampires in storytelling symbolize societal fears and reflect historical social and racial violence, as shown by a 1930s-set horror about community-targeted vampires.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Cult-Classic '90s Horror Game Comes To Steam With Bizarre Title

The 1995 cult game The Dark Eye returns to Steam as Edgar Allan Poe's Interactive Horror: 1995 Edition, restored via ScummVM with Burroughs narration.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Incredible Dark Fantasy Characters With Atmospheric Concept Art by John Gagne

Anatomy of a Ruin: The Superb Dark and Creepy Art Works of Sam Wolfe Connelly "Transgenesis": Giusy Amoroso's Vivid Digital Imagery Takes Nature to Its Most Beautiful Extremes Brilliant Barcode Designs Tokyo-Based Illustrator Shows The Everyday Olympics Of Ordinary People Casetagram - Customized iPhone 5 Case + Free Global Shipping Eye-Catching Minimalist Street Art Made Using Masking Tape Norwegian Artist Nikolai Lockertsen Creates Amazing Concept Art By Using iPad As A Canvas Love. Protect. Cripples: Stunning AI Artworks by Umut Yildiz
Arts
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

The vampire figure personifies societal anxieties and mirrors social and racial violence, sustaining enduring cultural relevance across myth, literature, and film.
Books
fromEngadget
2 months ago

What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona

A trans woman uncovers non-consensual pornography of herself and is drawn into escalating horrors involving identity, exploitation, internet influence, and economic precarity.
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago

New Medieval Books: Celtic Magic - Medievalists.net

Ancient and medieval Celtic-speaking peoples maintained distinctive magical beliefs and practices whose evidence appears in inscriptions, classical accounts, medieval manuscripts, charms, and medical recipes.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Breathtaking Grotesque Illustrations Capturing Humanity's Darkest Corners by Vergvoktre

A diverse array of contemporary visual works spans photography, illustration, street art, tattoos, sculpture, anime, and dark cinematic painting.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Lord of the Flies: the castaway classic is such excellent, surreal horror that you will feel sick throughout

BBC's new Lord of the Flies, adapted by Jack Thorne and directed by Marc Munden, presents the story as contemporary and striking.
Video games
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Outside Parties is the creepiest Playdate game yet, and I'm kind of obsessed

Outside Parties is a Playdate horror scavenger-hunt that builds intense atmosphere using a massive gigapixel panoramic image and eerie audio-driven narrative.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

Fantasy is a dominant, all-pervading cultural form offering diverse subgenres, serious artistic value, and lineages from varied creators and traditions.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel

Looking to the Middle Ages for answers to the perennial puzzles of life can seem quaint, even artificial, a long reach across centuries marked by violence, hierarchy, and exclusion. And yet medieval culture offers a way of thinking about love that still speaks to the present. If love is most urgently tested in moments of strain and upheaval, then it is in those moments - where care is stressed or obscured - that its meaning comes most clearly into view.
Arts
#film-adaptation
fromThe Nation
1 month ago
Film

The Bad Vibes of "Wuthering Heights"

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights prioritizes contemporary aesthetic over literary faithfulness, reducing Brontë's complex novel to a shallow love story that reflects modern short attention spans rather than engaging with the source material's depth.
fromPitchfork
1 month ago
Film

"Wuthering Heights" Review: A Romance in Scare Quotes

The new film adaptation strips restraint, makes suppressed psychosexual themes explicit, yielding an imaginative yet overwrought and tedious period drama.
Film
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Bad Vibes of "Wuthering Heights"

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights prioritizes contemporary aesthetic over literary faithfulness, reducing Brontë's complex novel to a shallow love story that reflects modern short attention spans rather than engaging with the source material's depth.
fromUntapped New York
1 year ago

How Museum Artifacts in NYC Inspired a Novel About a Medieval Witch - Untapped New York

While working on a graduate school paper on the mystical powers of coral, gemologist Anna Rasche ventured deep into the archives of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's library. Coral is the most powerful material to ward off the evil eye-a belief Italians have held since ancient times. Romans often gifted newborns coral amulets to prevent sickness and bad luck.
Books
#wuthering-heights
fromIndependent
2 months ago
Film

Sex, obsession, and a hint of BDSM, is Wuthering Heights suitable for teens? A mother and her 15-year-old daughter watch together

fromIndependent
2 months ago
Film

Sex, obsession, and a hint of BDSM, is Wuthering Heights suitable for teens? A mother and her 15-year-old daughter watch together

Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

'Wuthering Heights' Is Not The Sicko Gothic Fantasy We Were Promised

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights impresses visually but fails to deliver the provocative, scandalous reinterpretation many expected of the classic novel.
Film
fromKqed
2 months ago

'Dracula' Finds New Life in a Sexy Reimagining by Luc Besson

Luc Besson's Paris-set reimagining of Dracula injects humor, color, period detail, and fresh panache into a familiar tale, starring Caleb Landry Jones.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

How to Put Sex in a Novel

Contemporary literary fiction increasingly avoids depicting heterosexual intimacy while queer novelists freely explore sex's complexities, as exemplified by Jan Saenz's unconventional novel about selling experimental orgasm-inducing pills.
#gothic-romance
Books
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Curing Zombies in "The Bone Temple"

Monsters evolve to mirror the cultural anxieties and ambitions of their eras, revealing societal fears about race, empire, mental health, and scientific cure.
fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

An Exclusive First Look at the Surreal, Symbolism-Packed Sets of Wuthering Heights

In Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, the moors of Yorkshire are wet with rain, fog-and symbolism. The rugged landscape separating the titular home from the neighboring estate, Thrushcross Grange, represents danger and harshness, but also a kind of wild freedom for the star-crossed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff, who explore the land together in childhood and spend their adult lives yearning for each other.
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Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

When Did Literature Get Less Dirty?

Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound functioned as a response to the controversial reception of Portnoy's Complaint, with Roth's protagonist expressing regret over writing sexually explicit material that drew accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
Film
fromJezebel
1 month ago

The Most Agonizing Death Fantasies on Charli XCX's 'Wuthering Heights' Soundtrack, Ranked

Charli XCX's 12-track album delivers haunting, lush pop that maps obsessive, trauma-bonded love and romanticized emotional collapse.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Nightborn review Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby

And now she has given these ideas a retread with this programmatic and unsubtly acted film, a scary movie about a monstrous newborn that is very much less interesting and original than Hatching; the paganism is cliched and the element of black comedy so often the alibi for not being scary in films like this is really not all that funny.
Film
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Stitch Head review animated adaptation of hit Frankenstinian tale hangs loosely together

Stitch Head is a tentative, derivative British children's animated film that shows a director's awkward pivot from gritty live-action to familiar, Pixar-like visual territory.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Timeless Provocations of "Wuthering Heights" (the Novel)

A few days after Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" came out, a friend sent me an Onion headline about a bookseller frantically pulling classics off the shelf before Fennell enters the store. No beloved novel could be safe from the dangers of the director introducing anachronistic costumes, original songs by Charli XCX, selectively color-blind casting, and explicit B.D.S.M. scenes for its Byronic hero.
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Film
fromInverse
3 months ago

How The Most Ambitious Vampire Movie Of The Year Found Its Secret Weapon

Justin Long humanizes morally ambiguous, narcissistic characters by exploring their self-justifications, making audiences partially complicit in their downfall.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Yes, Wuthering Heights Is a 'Hurlevent'

"Hurlevent": Is that like when you watch 28 Years Later? Is it some kind of French adjective that's like, "This movie is so emotional you'll cry until you yak"? Even so, why would the cast and crew of the film take photos in front of a random word and not, say, the title of the film? These questions, while well-intentioned, proved very stupid:
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Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I'm so co-o-old': ahead of Wuthering Heights, the 20 best films with dreadful weather ranked!

Weather and environmental conditions often function as characters, shaping mood, isolation, and plot consequences across films.
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