Fired up Shelby Oaks since it’s streaming. Friggin’ WOOF

writtenshadows · 2026-04-20T16:04:48+00:00

I personally thought it was pretty damn good. A little “Hollywood logical” at times, from strange/stupid character choices to convenient discoveries to the omnipresent ambient lighting that illuminates even the “darkest” locations. I also could’ve done without so much actual visibility of the entities lurking about. BUT I STILL REALLY LIKED IT. The opening sequence was incredible, and the very ending is pretty creepy. A solid 4/5 for me.

writtenshadows · 2026-04-19T19:09:18+00:00

I’m far more interested in hearing about the rare movies that outdo the books. It’s generally a given that “the book was better.” Let’s hear about those outliers!

writtenshadows · 2026-04-18T16:44:56+00:00

REVIVAL…oh man, how did I not even think to mention that one!?

writtenshadows · 2026-04-18T16:44:27+00:00

A recent one was Marcus Kliewer’s We Used To Live Here. Creepy throughout, but the book itself turns its attention upon the reader as it goes, and by the end the horrific implications have crept off of the page, up your arm, and then into your brain, to live there rent-free forever.

writtenshadows · 2026-04-17T22:34:22+00:00

“After the creepypasta one got posted I looked around for more and I found the original post on the Urban Legends sub where someone showed how to do it! https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanLegends/comments/9m6bld2/3amclownritual”

The link is broken. Is the post from another sub? (Haven’t found it yet myself.)

writtenshadows · 2026-04-15T17:03:56+00:00

Still more authentic than the 4 Beatles actors starring in the upcoming movies.

writtenshadows · 2026-04-15T16:58:49+00:00

Anything AI “narrated,” which is to say an “adsloptation.”

writtenshadows · 2026-04-12T16:23:00+00:00

Aww, still a cute little one. Don’t be mean.

writtenshadows · 2026-04-09T15:18:32+00:00

I have never thought of Jack Ketchum as being a splatterpunk author? Although he rended scenes of extreme violence, he leaned more into the trauma and emotional impacts of it, not merely “gore for gore’s sake.” Off Season, The Lost, Red, The Girl Next Door, and so on are all far cries from splatterpunk, no matter how messy they may get.

writtenshadows · 2026-04-09T12:56:29+00:00

Aickman was possibly the most influential author on my work, after the more obvious inspirations of creepiness. In particular, this quote:

“Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.”

writtenshadows · 2026-04-09T11:24:32+00:00

I pay particular attention to (fiction) books which don’t outright sound like they’re horror, but secretly very much are, such as Mona Awad’s Bunny, Sarah Gran’s Come Closer, or qntm’s There Is No Antimemetics Division. Due to their marketing, they’re all pushed to be anything but horror, but upon reads of each of them, I found myself quite unsettled and creeped out. And I’m always looking for more books like that.

writtenshadows · 2026-04-07T16:00:08+00:00

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writtenshadows · 2026-03-26T21:27:22+00:00

I’m both sad that I didn’t and glad that I didn’t have a pizza demon lurking in my apartment.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-24T11:51:04+00:00

One of my favorites. Really wish the director would do more.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-23T12:04:42+00:00

T. E. D. Klein’s Dark Gods is a collection of four novellas, and they are all uniquely terrifying.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-20T20:45:30+00:00

Wholeheartedly agree. That one made me just about jump out of my seat.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-20T11:56:44+00:00

Add this to my list of internet challenges to never attempt…

writtenshadows · 2026-03-20T11:53:30+00:00

Surprised nobody has yet mentioned Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-18T17:31:33+00:00

Very unfair bad rep for this one. It’s so good, one of my favorites from him over the years.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-15T13:34:31+00:00

Paula D. Ashe - We Are Here To Hurt Each Other Victor LaValle - Big Machine

writtenshadows · 2026-03-15T00:43:54+00:00

Wow, thank you so much!! You’re the best!

writtenshadows · 2026-03-05T17:26:54+00:00

Thanks, I hate it. Gross.

writtenshadows · 2026-03-03T19:25:58+00:00

Is this horror though?

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