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Beyond the Mask: Monstrous Hybrids and Southern Gothic in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

While the Scooby-Doo franchise is widely known for its “men in masks” and classic Gothic aesthetics, the 1998 film Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island subverts these familiar tropes through a distinctly Southern Gothic [...]

Little Shop of Horrors

The 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz, is a cult classic for a reason. The movie is based on the 1982 stage show adapted from the 1960 horror [...]

Beautiful Creature: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

  Read by Maja Zamiejska This review contains spoilers   The gothic event of the season, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein bears the unmistakable imprint of a filmmaker with a spectacular imagination. A [...]

When Faith Fails: FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

Read by Katarzyna ‘Catharsis’ Mikołajczyk Autumn evenings feel incomplete without a cup of warm tea, a comforting blanket, and a dose of horror. This distinct autumnal mood gets better when it is [...]

Cracow Gothic

Let me start with a market-based point of view: perhaps the success of the Witcher franchise (books, RPG, and series) encouraged the producers to create Cracow Monsters, the new Polish Netflix series [...]