#horror

Richard O'Brien's 'The Rocky Horror Show': Tiny Desk Concert

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Don't Be Afraid

A tormented photographer makes a comeback with freshly taken photos at the very location where his son once disappeared. During the exhibition, visitors suddenly realize that there's someone lurking in the background of several photos.

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The Littles

When 11 year old Juliet stubs her toe on a loose floorboard, she unwittingly sets off a series of mysterious events.

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The Dysphoria

A trans woman performs a Satanic ritual to get a vagina, but unwittingly invites a demonic presence into her home which demands a terrible sacrifice

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Zar

A schoolgirl becomes the target of a sinister music teacher who uses dark magic to assault his victims from afar.

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Richard O'Brien's 'The Rocky Horror Show': Tiny Desk Concert

When you welcome The Rocky Horror Show to the Tiny Desk, it's only fitting to fill the audience with Frank-N-Furters, Magentas, Eddies, Riff Raffs, Brads, Janets, and various other creatures of the night.

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HANDS OVER – Beta Demo

HANDS OVER is a Buckshot Roulette style multiplayer horror game where platters take turns to push buttons in a contraption that bites off hands. In HANDS OVER players take their seats at a sinister table, bluffing and sabotaging each other while trying to outlast everyone else in the room. You’ll use influence cards between turns to shift the odds, protect yourself, or trigger chaotic events … Read More The post HANDS OVER – Beta Demo first appeared on Alpha Beta Gamer .

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Sip Or Die – Open Beta

Sip Or Die is a psychological party horror game where every sip could kill you as you’re forced to gamble with life itself. In Sip Or Die each round a wheel determines how many vials hold poison before guessing correctly lets you spin the Wheel of Fate or send a rival to the electric chair, while guessing wrong forces you to drink your vial or … Read More The post Sip Or Die – Open Beta first appeared on Alpha Beta Gamer .

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Hookeye – Beta Demo

Hookeye is a first-person horror fishing game set on a foggy California dock, where an obsessed fisherman refuses to leave despite dwindling gear and fading sanity. In Hookeye you’ll scrap together limited bait and hooks, sacrificing smaller catches in pursuit of something far more illustrious lurking beneath the water. As the fisherman’s senses begin to deceive him, players must embrace a slow, meditative descent into … Read More The post Hookeye – Beta Demo first appeared on Alpha Beta Gamer .

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Headshot Holdout – Beta Demo

Headshot Holdout is a roguelite first-person shooter with no automatic weapons, where squads of up to four players start with nothing but a rifle and upgrade themselves into zombie killing machines. In Headshot Holdout you’ll battle through multiple hand authored arenas filled with nazi zombies, using environmental tactics and immersive sim elements to maximize your headshot streak. Leveling up unlocks new stats and abilities, while … Read More The post Headshot Holdout – Beta Demo first appeared on Alpha Beta Gamer .

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The House on the Borderland - First person survival horror game for the C64 by AI/Michael Cox

Another C64 game to play with the release of The House on the Borderland, a first person survival horror game created by developer Michael Cox. Drawing direct inspiration from William Hope Hodgson’s classic 1908 novel, the game tasks players with a desperate stand to protect their home, their sister, and their loyal dog from an onslaught of marauding swine-things. Survival hinges on enduring

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The Top 10 Best Horror Games To Play This Halloween

Humans are drawn to horror in all forms, real life and fiction. Perhaps it’s the desire to get as close to death as possible without actually dying; perhaps it’s the morality of life and knowing death comes for all of us; perhaps all our heads are just a little miswired. Whatever the reason, we flock to movies where supernatural entities and puppets on tricycles upend otherwise lovely lives, TV shows where murderous cults kill and stump local detectives, and books where the words on the page seem to follow you to bed. Games, however, go a step further, letting you enter the horror and control

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Gag Order is a co-op, SCP-ish horror shooter about surviving as best you can against some nasty, tentacle covered cephalopod creatures

What makes Carrion interesting obviously lies in playing as the monster in a horror game rather than being the one chased down by it. The game's nasty tentacle monster still gives me the heebie jeebies, so I really would hate to be hunted by one. This is where I point you towards Gag Order, a shooter where you are in fact hunted by a disgusting cephalopod creature all while tracking down a distress signal. Read more

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From Slasher Films to Vampire Flicks, Horror Movies Are More Popular Than Ever. Relive the Genre's Scariest Moments—if You Dare—at a New Exhibition

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' latest show features nearly 350 props, costumes and artifacts from such films as "Psycho," "The Shining" and "Sinners"

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Mental Hospitals at the Movies

The horror films of the 1970s captured a cultural shift from fears of institutional abuse to anxieties about psychiatric patients living freely. The post Mental Hospitals at the Movies appeared first on JSTOR Daily .

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Our Favorite Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry to Read for Halloween

As soon as the sticky summer air begins to dissipate and the first leaves transition into fiery reds and oranges, my instant desire is to cozy up with all things eerie and haunted. The winter holidays full of family, food, and chaos are imminent, but in this moment, I crave the youthful nostalgia of Halloween […] The post Our Favorite Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry to Read for Halloween appeared first on Electric Literature .

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