Buffet Libre opens with a version of the Evil Dead demon cam. An entity hovers, but not through the foggy woods, instead through a dimly lit international market. On a second pass, a woman sweeping takes a swipe at the camera, and the perspective cuts into focus. We’ve been riding along with a pigeon, not a malevolent supernatural … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Buffet Libre
The Kirlian Frequency adapts an Argentine web series into a horror anthology centered on a mysterious town. Through a late-night radio show, residents share tales of murder, madness, and aliens. These stories exist as cassette recordings from the night a comet appeared and apparently erased the town, now only a haunting presence in the surviving audio. … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: The Kirlian Frequency
Even the best horror anthologies invite rankings of individual stories and a tolerance for unevenness. What makes the Danish collection Adorable Humans stand out is not that every segment lands equally, but that the collection shares a surprisingly cohesive emotional and thematic heart. Maybe because they share source material. All of the segments are adaptations of Hans … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Adorable Humans
You can read my review at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
You can read my review over at Horror DNA. Short version: 3/5 Stars Continue reading At Horror DNA: Infinite Summer
(I thought I had reposted these since The Terror Test is no more, but I missed this one.) Test Prep is a series of essays that I occasionally wrote to complement episodes of The Terror Test, a horror podcast. Originally written for Episode 46 on Les Diaboliques (1955) and High Tension (2003). Amour Fou-Frou Until … Continue reading From the Eunoia Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #14
I was lucky to see the shorts blocks from this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival thanks to Horror DNA. You can read the review for each block below. It was an excellent selection, with many standouts including “Barlebas,” “Far from the Plains,” “Alice & the Little Green Men,” and “Belloe.” “Jeff” was my personal favorite. … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Shorts Blocks from the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Another review from FrightFest for the re-release of Malpertuis. There’s no subtlety in the opening of Malpertuis. The film begins with an image of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, while a child and an adult discuss their reading, offering the audience a set of instructions for what follows: “It’s pretty, but it’s difficult to understand.” “Somehow it makes … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Malpertuis
From FrightFest Uk, a root-scoped cosmic, folk horror vision from Latvia. The movie opens spectacularly: a grizzled, blindfolded man drags a chain across the desert until he reaches the sea, where he casts it outward and parts the waters. Above him rise two immense legs, ending not in feet but in hooves. Carrying the chain … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Dog of God
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