Category: Features

Let’s Play a Game: The Evolution of Fear in Video Games

June 28, 2016
7 mins to read

With Resident Evil 7 preparing to lurch its way into our living rooms early 2017, This Is Horror looks at how horror and genre themes have established themselves in video games. In this first part, we look back thirty years to the earliest generation of gaming and find that as long as there have been …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 27 June 2016

June 27, 2016
3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: The Real Story Behind Freddy Vs Jason Kane Hodder: Where Is He Now? How Well Do You Know Ghostbusters? Doom: A Bloody History What Brexit Could Mean For The …

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The Cutting Room – Westworld

June 23, 2016
2 mins to read

A lawyer and businessman are among the visitors to Westworld, a futuristic theme park where the gunhands and dance hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests’ violent and lustful fantasies—until something goes wrong with their circuitry. No longer the guests’ obliging victim, a black-clad humanoid gunslinger turns on the two heroes and …

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The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful

June 22, 2016
6 mins to read

The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful The following article covers the end of the television series Penny Dreadful, and while it does not go into any great detail, it does contain spoilers concerning the series finale. Readers are encouraged to proceed with caution. After three seasons, Showtime and Sky’s production of …