Movie Review: V/H/S 2 and the Horror Panopticon
We’re in the Golden Age of the found footage genre. In the empire of the panopticon, horror movies thrive off 24/7 street surveillance, surgical cameras, security cameras, microscopic cameras, smartphones, webcams, etc. We live in a hunted, stalked society, consumed and regurgitated like a freshly turned zombie’s black bile. Cameras are everywhere–watching our carefully scripted [...]
The 40 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made: Part Two
It’s hard to explain why we love zombie movies so much. It’s more than the fear or the gore. It’s more than the camp or the B-movie nostalgia. There’s just something fundamentally exciting, almost poetic, about the idea of the undead chasing down living humans and eating them alive. And more importantly, there’s something both [...]
Movie Review: The Purge
Guest Post by Billy Russell The premise in The Purge is a pretty original one: For twelve hours in one day of the year, all crime is legal. Because of this, all Americans have the opportunity to purge their sins without legal repercussion and violent crime is at an all-time low. Things are going well [...]
Time Travel Vs Space Travel
We humans are fond of asking hypothetical questions. Sometimes these come in the form of torturous, disgusting ultimatums: would you rather make out with a drugged warthog for half an hour or live in a sewer for a week? Or in the form of potential superpowers: would you rather have the ability to fly or [...]
The 40 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made: Part One
You asked for it and we’re delivering the goods. We’ve watched over 150 zombie movies in order to compile this list. Our minds are lost. And yes, this includes many different types of zombies. Whether they’re infected with a virus, or turned undead by a voodoo curse or radioactive goo, as long as they resemble [...]
The Changeling (1980): Subtle Horror Masterpiece
A ghost story is a hard one to manage. As far as concocting a scary story for a horror movie, it’s easy for a movie about a haunting to slip into utter ridiculousness as each scare, by formulaic definition, must top the last one until, at the very end of the movie, anything that once [...]
The Citadel (2012): Feral Children for Agoraphobics
Everyone wants to be scared when we’re watching a horror movie, but why? Why do we crave the worst? Why do we want to see movies where the unspeakable things only our imaginations could create will be lurking in the darkness to jump out at us? My theory is that we go to the movies [...]
Evil Dead Remake: Bloodlust, Gore, and A Dog Named Grandpa
There’s something decidedly un-scary about a horror movie with a plot that eschews mystery in order to lay out a diabolical, supernatural plan. In Evil Dead, the remake of the beloved cult classic original, The Evil Dead (dropping the titular “The” is about the closest this film gets to original deviation), it’s made clear that [...]
4 Reasons You May Soon Be A Killer
We view killers as aliens, the act of killing as some science fiction concept that doesn’t apply to our everyday lives. Yet you kill every day. Every time you mow the lawn, you kill grass. And it actually screams. Yep, it does. That smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal cast off [...]
Top Unanswered Questions From The Walking Dead
Full disclosure: The Ghost Diaries is not familiar with The Walking Dead comic series. But we are voracious lovers of the TV series. Now that Season 3 has concluded, it’s time for us to seek some answers. We’ve compiled a working list of the biggest unanswered questions from The Walking Dead TV series and even [...]
