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  • Severin Films Detail August Releases Including The Ugly Stepsister And Gwendoline

    As its 20th Anniversary celebrations continue, Severin Films has detailed its August slate, with three major releases spanning recent horror, Indonesian genre cinema and cult exploitation. Leading the lineup is The Ugly Stepsister, writer-director Emilie Blichfeldtโ€™s 2025 Oscar-nominated horror film, which receives its North American disc premiere through Severin. The release follows praise from Paste…

  • The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari: The Original Nightmare Is Still One Hell Of A Trip

    There are films that are important, films that are influential, and then there are films that are so fucking strange that you can watch them more than a century later and still find yourself thinking, What the hell am I watching? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is all three. Released in 1920 and directed by…

  • Fourteen Years On, Mindwork Return with New Album Adrift

    Fourteen years is a long time between albums, but Czech progressive death metal outfit Mindwork are finally back. The band will release Adrift, their first full-length since 2012โ€™s Eterea, on August 27 as an independent release. Formed in 2007, Mindwork quickly made an impression on the Czech metal scene, earning two Andฤ›l Award nominations before…

  • Helldrifter to Begin Work on New Album

    German melodic death metal outfit Helldrifter have officially announced that work on their next musical chapter will kick off right after the summer. Revealing the news via social media, the southern German band shared that a substantial amount of new music is already taking shape behind the scenes. While the writing process is still in…

  • Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920): When the Family Secret Has Fur

    Welcome to the ultimate DNA Test from Hell. If The Temple was an iron coffin at the bottom of the sea, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, later republished under the punchier title The White Ape, is a slow-motion car crash through five generations of the worst genetics in British history. Written…

  • The Temple (1920): The Iron Logic of the Deep

    โ€‹Lock the hatch and check your oxygen levels, because we are diving into the high-pressure, low-sanity world of The Temple. Written in 1920 and first published in 1925 in Weird Tales, this is Lovecraftโ€™s version of a submarine thriller, but instead of a heroic crew, we get a boat full of Imperial German sailors who…

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): When Your Neighbor is the Monster

    โ€‹If there is one movie that feels like it was born for midnight screenings, itโ€™s this one. Itโ€™s not about a giant lizard knocking over Big Ben. Itโ€™s not about a guy in a rubber suit trying to take a scientist to prom. Itโ€™s about the most terrifying thing imaginable: The people you love turning…

  • The Tree (1920): Death by Landscaping

    โ€‹Letโ€™s step out of the foggy New England docks and into the marble hills of Arcadia, where friendship curdles, ambition festers, and the trees have very long memories. Where The Terrible Old Man crept through fog and shadow, claiming the souls of those foolish enough to step into his world, The Tree grows silently in…

  • The Terrible Old Man (1920): Keeper of Water Street

    โ€‹In January 1920, H. P. Lovecraft shifted the focus from the ethereal mists of the Dream-lands to the salt-crusted, pre-revolutionary streets of Kingsport, grounding his horror in a tangible coastal reality where the weight of history and ancestral memory presses as heavily as the tide. The Terrible Old Man is not merely a short story;…

  • The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) โ€” The Voice from the Grave

    With the the 1919 composition of The Statement of Randolph Carter, the Cosmic Horror shifted trajectory. We are no longer sailing through the iridescent mists of the Dream-lands or witnessing the geological revenge of silent water-lizards. We are in a swamp. We are in a graveyard. We are standing over a hole in the earth…