Tag: scriptophobic

Don't look now, it's another episode of One Missed Pod! This week Zack and Kelly are watching the 2004 horror film by Yoshihiro Hoshino,...

  Suehiro Maruo is the master of guro, a Japanese artform which combines the beautiful with the grotesque. Midori (1992) is the adaptation of Maruo's...

  Junji Ito is a decisive figure in the horror community, though each year finds more and more fans devoting themselves to his work. On...

Kelly Warner returns with this week's movie; Ishiro Honda's Matango (1963), one of Kelly's favorites. Zack had the movie confused with Horrors of Malformed...

In this week's episode, Zack and Kelly are joined by one of Scritophobic's original writers, author and professor Chris Vander Kaay! Our guest chose...

On this episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly discover the true meaning of "technical difficulties." Covering Zack's favorite Japanese horror movie, Onibaba,...

This week's a Kelly pick and she's selected one of the craziest Japanese horror-comedies ever put to film: George Iida's Battle Heater, a movie...

You can tell this week was a Zack pick by the dark subject matter in Guilty of Romance (2011). This film by legendary director...

From missed calls to Toho tokusatsu insanity, One Missed Pod is back with a new episode. This week Zack Long and Kelly Warner are...

Scriptophobic editors Zack Long and Kelly Warner are massive Japanese horror fans. From the earliest silent films (A Page of Madness) to the latest...

Welcome back, fellow fear scholars, to another lecture here at Fear Academy. Today’s topic is on James Rose’s book Beyond Hammer: British Horror Cinema...

The TV glowed in the center of the room, reflecting the visage of a stern looking news anchor going on about something I had...

Welcome back to Everything But Bone, and today we are delving into an oft maligned genre, the found footage film.  Never has a horror...

Most writing advice would suggest you follow a certain formula, as if the best stories are something you create in the lab. And look,...

Fanfiction gets a bad wrap. And I get it. It’s full of weird sex, poor spelling, and a fervent love for a fictional universe...

America’s all but resigned itself as a nation to being rocked every week or so by new gun massacres. People who’ve seen it as...

Editor-in-chief Zack Long here. I first met Spencer in my short stint in the film program here. Spencer stood out and, as is clear...

Welcome to the first Everything But Bone of 2019. It’s been a hectic year so far for me, so I hope it’s been treating...

Apart from the loss of lives, one of the saddest parts of any serial killer investigation is often realizing many of the victims were...

Blank isn’t Horror A recent tweet by Patrick Bromley was infused with palpable sass directed at a review that claim “Hereditary isn’t a horror...

There was a moment while I was playing Outlast (2013) that made me scream at the top of my lungs. At 2:30AM. Waking up...

Paul Farrell It was the summer of 1998. I was fourteen, at a sleepover with my closest friends and fighting the group’s movie choice with...

Richard Matheson is one of the all-time great writers of horror. From Duel to Stir of Echoes, his stories have repeatedly made the trip...