There are few companies that monsters prefer to invest their savings in, and stake their reputations on. Offhand, I’ve had friends put money into Craftsman power tools, tanning beds, General Mills cereal, and cosmetic dentistry. By and large, the company all monsters agree to support and retain stock in is…
To be clear, monsters are not huge fans of fire. However, even the most flammable of monsters will brave a close flame in favor of a backyard barbecue or cookout. Cookouts appeal to the carnivorous nature of all goblins, ghouls, and reanimated corpses. There’s no sound more appetizing than the…
There’s something about the stark white of bathroom tiles that screams to monsters. Maybe it’s our entropic need for chaos. Maybe it just hits us in our need to be naughty. Maybe we just crave a little more color where there is none. Whatever the reason, monsters like making bathrooms…
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We’ve all been there. Strapped to a machine specifically designed to suck the life out of you. We hear the machine begin to warm up. “Why are you doing this!” we shout desperately, searching for meaning with what are likely our last remaining breaths. We hear our evil captor cackle…
WARNING: This post contains vague film history and trivia. Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, may also be the grandfather of kitchen condiment special effects. Not worried about matching realistic colors on black and white film, he used chocolate syrup to create the bloody shower scene in Psycho (1960). Thus…
One of the ways monsters like to make a powerful impression is by making their victims power-less. Literally. Monsters like to cut the power. When you’re tired, when you’re worn down, when you think you’ve finally found a storm window in the basement that hasn’t been boarded over and that…
You’ve been there. In the middle of the woods, with a map that doesn’t look right and a misleading signpost. Which direction should you go? You could go left, and head uphill toward potential daylight and scenic overlooks. Or you could go right, which looks to peek around a cliff…
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