Television Reviews

PopHorror’s Horror Anime Reviews: AniMay Week 4 – Corpse Party: Tortured Souls

This whole month, I’ve been trying to watch horror anime that demonstrates the range of the medium. We’ve had emotional stories, thrillers and impossibly weird non-linear storytelling, and all of it fits into one subgenre of horror or another. One thing we’ve been missing, though, is a mind-peeling, hair-whitening, balls-through-the-wall …

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PopHorror’s Horror Anime Reviews: AniMay Week 3 – Puella Magi Madoka Magica

In our last AniMay review, we focused on Naoki Urasawa‘s Monster (you can read the article here) and anime’s potential to step outside of itself and tell a straightforward horror/thriller story. This week, we’re stepping back into anime’s wheelhouse with a story about one of the most persistent tropes in …

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PopHorror’s Horror Anime Reviews: AniMay Week 2 – Monster

It’s week 2 of PopHorror’s month long horror anime deep dive. This means it’s time for something different. In last week’s article on When They Cry (read that one here), we discussed this quintessential horror anime, which is full of hyperbolized emotions, wonky pacing, reliance on Japanese folklore, and environmental …

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PopHorror’s Horror Anime Reviews: AniMay Week 1 – Higurashi/When They Cry

When They Cry

There are very few horror movies that affect me like the ones that come out of Japan. Steeped in the myths and folklore of the region and dripping with a pantheon of fears I don’t understand but feel with every inch of my skin, Japanese horror movies like Takashi Miike’s …

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The Future Of Gothic Horror Is Here In ‘Penny Dreadful’

In our modern world, we have various television shows featuring gothic horror themes. Every once in awhile, we get one that is a cut above the rest… visualistic, captivating, brilliant in cinematography and brimming with acting talent. For this generation, Penny Dreadful is that television series, one that is worth …

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Hulu’s Into The Dark Series: ‘Down’ – A Grim and Gory Valentine Story

Hulu’s Into the Dark series delivers a new holiday horror-themed segment each month, and the new one for Valentine’s Day has arrived. Down is not your average sweetheart tale. The director for this twisted story is the one and only Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism 2010) from a script written by Kent …

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The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell – TV Review

If you are missing October and Halloween, then you definitely have to check out The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell on Netflix. It is as if Marilyn Munster lived on her own with a penchant for video blogging and her own fluffy, snarky monster pets. It is a bit of …

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Rick Grimes’ Last Episode… ‘The Walking Dead’: “What Comes After” – TV Series Recap

As many Walking Dead fans already knew and and had come to dread, episode 5 of season 9, titled “What Comes After,” was Rick Grimes’ last appearance in the series. Andrew Lincoln dedicated the past 8 years of his life to the comic book character’s TV show persona. In doing …

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Hulu’s ‘Light as a Feather’ Series is Hauntingly Perfect

Light As A Feather

Despite everyone raving about Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, I decided to go against the grain and binge watch another Hulu series called Light as a Feather. It’s definitely marked towards a younger age group, but I enjoy horror and thrillers of all type, so I thought, “Why not give …

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