horror adaptations Archives

How King on Screen Chronicles Stephen King’s Cinematic Side

Posted on December 14, 2022 (December 14, 2022) by Tobias Carroll

Daphné Baiwir’s documentary King on Screen offers fascinating new insights into our indelible connections with Stephen King’s works. […]

December 14, 2022 Books, On Screen

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: The Midnight Club and Queer Personhood

Posted on November 15, 2022 (November 15, 2022) by Lindsay King-Miller

How Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club introduced one reader to queer agency and the grand tradition of queer horror stories. […]

November 15, 2022 Books, On Screen

How The Phantom of the Opera Still Haunts Italian and Chinese Cinema

Posted on June 16, 2022 (August 16, 2022) by Joe Bendel

Everyone knows Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage version, but Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel held a special fascination for Italian and Chinese filmmakers. […]

June 16, 2022 On Screen

Midnight Movies: Riding The Midnight Meat Train

Posted on March 16, 2021 (March 16, 2021) by Alasdair Stuart

This underappreciated 2008 movie adaptation of the Clive Barker short story still exudes a dark and compelling power. […]

March 16, 2021 On Screen

Review: Lovecraft Country Creates a Whole New System of Reality in “Sundown”

Posted on August 19, 2020 (August 19, 2020) by E.E. Adams

The much-anticipated premiere of HBO’s Lovecraft Country adaptation offers scares of both the mundane and supernatural varieties. […]

August 19, 2020 On Screen

What You Need to Know Going Into HBO’s Lovecraft Country Adaptation

Posted on August 14, 2020 (August 14, 2020) by Janelle Janson

A primer on Matt Ruff’s novel Lovecraft Country & what you’ll need to know going into Sunday’s premiere of the HBO series from Misha Green & Jordan Peele. […]

August 14, 2020 Books, On Screen

5 Works of Horror by Women That Need Film Adaptations Now

Posted on March 27, 2020 (January 25, 2021) by Gwendolyn Kiste

Five horror novels, collections, and stories written by women we’d like to see on screen, featuring spiders, gothic boarding schools, snake-handling cults, & more. […]

March 27, 2020 Books

5 Horror Books We’d Love to See On Screen

Posted on October 16, 2019 (January 19, 2022) by Emily Hughes

We’d offer up several limbs (not necessarily our own) to see these books on the big screen. […]

October 16, 2019 Books, On Screen