From drugged candy to kids bursting into flame, this year’s Halloween moral panics are well underway.
Author: reprobatepress
Difficult Ideas for Difficult Times
The Halloween TV Specials Of Yesteryear
A collection of frightful TV Guide ads for spooky specials, creepy cartoons and monstrous movie all-niters.
Raindance 2022: Bawa’s Garden
An arrestingly minimalist and slow-paced look at architecture, nature and the nature of the outsider.
Ghosts, Paranoia And Folk Horror: The Creepy World Of British 1970s Children’s TV
The scary TV shows made for kids in the 1970s were unnervingly good at getting under the skin – and remain just as effective today.
The Horrors Of Old Age: George Romero’s The Amusement Park
George Romero’s ‘lost’ film shows us a horrific vision of old age – but loses the point in a rather laboured attempt at metaphorical provocation.
The Special London Bridge Special – An Unbelievable All-Star Mess
Tom Jones heads an extravagant and unlikely cast in a 1972 TV special celebrating the opening of the relocated London Bridge in Arizona.
Raindance 2022: Marcel!
Jasmine Trinca’s tale of narcissism, mother and daughter bonding and a road trip gone bad is not exactly fun but is nevertheless oddly rewarding.
The Classic Monsters Meet The Superheroes
In the outlandish and fantastical world of the superhero comic, it should come as no surprise that little is off-limits, even a foray into gothic and literary horror.
All Kneel Before DomCon
The BDSM lifestyle event returns for another year to New Orleans.
Mayhem 2022: Unicorn Wars
The Spanish animated war film pits Care Bears against Unicorns – but it transcends its conceit to become a bleak, unsettling tale of conflict, sibling rivalry and madness.
Mayhem 2022: Kuroneko
The enhanced Mayhem screening of the Japanese classic is an interesting reinterpretation of the film.
Mayhem 2022: Birdemic 3 – Sea Eagle
James Nguyen’s trash trilogy reaches the final (for now) instalment – but will it be third time unlucky or is the outsider magic still there?