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There's also nothing supernatural about The Human Centipede, or The Phantom of the Opera. Also, it occurs to me that Phantom of the Opera shares Misery's kidnapped-by-a-deranged-fan premise. Although in Phantom's case it's only at the climax and the musical grratly diminishes it from what it...

Is there a word for movies like Carrie and Willard where much of the part that would usually be the horror part is cathartic because the victims are terrible people whose harassment is what caused the killer to snap?

The same goes for all of the Universal monsters. Except maybe the homunculi in Bride of Frankenstein. Although even they are more creepy than scary per se

Hey, does anyone know if Mark Zuckerberg is on record as being a fan of The Evil Dead? Because his website appears to be named after the Necronomicon

Oh, and inborn arcane power is the body producing proteins that fold into an alphabet soup of magic runes

Some combination of additional fundamental interactions (ones whose rules resemble a LLM nore closely than they do the simple equations of Newton), residue of the outer planes' top down causality, and/or dabbling in the other power sources

Cube is very scary. Especially the deranged cop guy

25.) Tome {and 12.) Cuisine} There are several cookbooks that teach a more mystical and esoteric form of food preparation. These times include the following: *The Omnomnomicon *The Canape Scriptures *The Gouda Purana *The Pollo Parmigana Sutra *The Book of Ecclescakes *The Book of the Prophet...

No, that's not what I'm talking about. Nor is Endless Space, although that's closer. I'm talking about something like Master of Orion but with a spellcasting system tacked on, and with an evil space wizard theme. So it's like a a war between legally distinct knockoffs of Leto II, Darth Sidious...

This is admittedly kind of a tangent, but that reminds me of an idea I had for a computer game (that I unfortunately lack the programming background to make happen). Basically the idea is this a science-fantasy 4x game, like if you combined Master of Orion with Master of Magic, so that now your...

It seems to be hard to pull off in general. Author and reader alike lose track of the allegory and it becomes some combination of a pointless acid trip and/or just another rubber suit monster I think the best literary execution of cosmic horror that I've seen may be the poem "The Conqueror...

Does the weird edgy 2017 Power Rangers movie count as horror? In addition to the series' standard kaiju, that one also features Rita being dredged out of the sea like a lovecraftian artifact, stealing people's vitality to restore her youth like the (1999) mummy, and ranting creepily about how...

Event Horizon and Hellraiser both make me think of Warhammer 40000 (Event Horizon is the Warp and Hellraiser is Slaanesh)

Schrodinger's Box- Somebody builds the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment as a real physical experiment. Now there's zombies.

Finally read The Great God Pan and The White People by Arthur Machen because I kept seeing them refrenced as influences of Lovecraft. Both had kind of weird pacing issues; they weren't quite shaggy dog stories since they both wrapped up their main plotlines, but in both the main plotline was...

How come everyone calls Lovecraft out on this but nobody calls out Bram Stoker or Edgar Allen Poe? Bram Stoker was much worse than Lovecraft in this regard. Has anyone else here ever read Lair of the White Worm? There's a man eating shapeshifter and an insane nobleman who's experimenting with...

Am I the only one who thinks that the toothpick of lightning is significantly less stupid than the javelin of lightning that it parodies?

Not pop science in a bad way. Pop science in the way A Brief History of Time is pop science. It's not written for a formal technical audience. Anyway, I'm a nihilist metalhead with a bachelors degree in biology and that book was a little bit bleak and dark even for me. And I'm not the only one...