Horror « The Hooded Utilitarian

November 15, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
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Jason Thompson on Junji Ito’s Tomie Stories

The politics of horror.

November 1, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
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Sarah Horrocks on Science-Fiction and Horror Comics

“Sci-fi as a genre is a world shaper.”

2000 Maniacs!

An essay in comics form on Herschell Gordon Lewis’ film 2000 Maniacs!

February 23, 2012
By Richard Cook
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The Horrors of Broadcast Television

The River is a fascinating show. Not fascinating in the sense of being well-written, or suspenseful, or really any good at all.

October 31, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
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Fecund Snails

Uzumaki’s most disturbing chapter is probably “The Snail” — a story which is equally, if more elliptically, obsessed with reproduction.

September 22, 2011
By Richard Cook
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Women and Children First … To Die!

Netflix streaming allows for eclectic diet of movies. You can view not just Hollywood crap, but crap from all over the world.

November 8, 2010
By James Romberger
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Cursing the Darkness: The Last Horrors of Alex Toth

by James Romberger Fear and suspense can be effectively created by the inference of the unknown. What is shown can be less harrowing than what is implied and then forms in the imagination of the reader. The late cartoonist Alexander Toth disliked drawing explicit horror and violence in the style of E.C., what he called [...]