Vampires are, by definition, parasites. They don’t devour the living, like a…
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Sublime Horror in Lovecraft Country (2020) and The NeverEnding Story (1984)
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind…
“Kill the Brain”: Partial Information and the Partially Devoured in Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The term ‘zombie’ is never spoken in what many consider the first…
“Kiss Me and I’ll Claw You to Death”: The Feline Femme Fatale in Cat People (1942)
Imagine you’re on a date with a beautiful woman. Things are going…
“The Remains of the Day”: How Corpse Bride (2005) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Make Death More Reasonable
The concept of death was completely foreign to me as a child.…
“The Guy Sure Looks Like Plant Food to Me!”: Eating the Poor in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Updated September 26, 2022 “On the Twenty-Third Day of the Month of…
“Life Isn’t A Musical” But Death Certainly Is: How Hazbin Hotel (2019) and Helluva Boss (2019) Make Music In Hell
Many of the horror musicals I have highlighted in recent weeks were…
“The Hardest Thing in This World is To Live in It” and Sometimes to Sing in It Too: Innovation and Buffy’s “Once More, With Feeling” Episode
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a revolutionary show, one which continues to…
“Our Lives Are One Masked Ball”: Monsters, Masks, and the Art of Imitation in The Phantom of the Opera Franchise
“If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made…
Damnation as Infection: Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil’s Carnival
Repo! the Genetic Opera (2008) was arguably my first horror musical, or…