There is a fine art to horror audio mixing and the creation of unsettling music that is not to be taken lightly in the making of genre films. Even the mass audiences have caught on to the crutch that is jumpscares and the blasting of high tempo music which have been the trend in many [...]

This month Netflix released the true-crime documentary The Ripper which tells the history of the Yorkshire Ripper, the investigation process, and the many perspectives on the events as they unfold. Half of what made the documentary so exciting was not just seeing the different interpretations of the killings, but also how it let the story take [...]

There's something inherently terrifying about losing control of yourself, which has been used to great effect in films involving possession. The concept of demons wrestling for control of the soul of humans hit its crescendo with The Exorcist which terrified the nation. Where the fun begins with subgenres that have such an effect on audiences [...]

Creating a world in any form of fictional media today is a struggle for so many reasons, most of which are simply because everything has been done. By the time most people have hit adulthood, they have ingested so much media that anything new is bound to be compared to something that came before it. [...]

Where is the line drawn between what constitutes a ripoff versus a homage? If a filmmaker is a long time fan of a genre and puts references to other genre films in their film, is it a ripoff? Moreso if the film is taking a premise that has been done before but takes it in [...]

The murder mystery has been a long-lasting genre that has interested and intrigued audiences from the hard-boiled detective dramas to the slasher genre of the 90s and the 2000s. The Scream franchise, in particular, reignited the popularity of the murder mystery and spawned countless imitators like the well known I know What You Did Last Summer and lesser [...]