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The Invitation is creepy, unsettling etiquette horror

May 12, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

A paranoia thriller about grief and new age cults.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Horror, KARYN KUSAMA, Reviews, Rosemary's Baby, THE INVITATION, Thrillers

Punks vs neo-nazis: Green Room is one nasty, slow cut above its competition

April 29, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The hardcore punk scene provides ripe setting for a white-power horror picture.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Green Room, Horror, Jeremy Saulnier, movies, Punk Rock, Reviews

Goodnight Mommy is bold, disturbing, and gorgeous horror

October 8, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

An art-house horror movie that is mostly psychological. Until it isn’t.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Goodnight Mommy, Horror, movies, Reviews

The Stake Podcast - A Nightmare on Elm Street & Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

September 22, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

RIP Wes Craven. We will always remember Freddy.

Filed Under: Featured, Stake Podcast Tagged With: Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Horror, Johnny Depp, Nightmare on Elm Street, People Under the Stairs, Slasher, Wes Craven

The Stake Podcast - Night of the Living Dead

August 11, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

A classic, important, powerful, and…mediocre movie? Let’s talk Night of the Living Dead.

Filed Under: Featured, Stake Podcast Tagged With: George A. Romero, Horror, Independent Movies, Night of the Living Dead, podcasts, race, racism, Zack Snyder, Zombies

The Backlist: H.P. Lovecraft’s Great Tales of Horror

March 27, 2025 by thestakemag 1 Comment

Lovecraft does not work in the realm of pure fantasy. He works in the cracks between what we know and what we do not know.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, Horror, Levi C. Byers, The Backlist

Everything you need to know before reading Dracula

January 23, 2025 by Christopher ZF 3 Comments

We interviewed Professor Alexis Easley about Vampires, Victorian Sexuality and Colonial Imperialism

Filed Under: Books, The Stake Tagged With: Alexis Easley, Dracula, Horror, Jack the Ripper, Monsters, Sexuality, The Stake Reading Club, Vampires, Victorian Era

Is this the list that matters most? The 10 Most Profitable Films of 2014

January 14, 2025 by Christopher ZF 6 Comments

One more list to consider: Three horror movies. Two Young-Adult adaptations. Two evangelical Christian movies. A family film, a sci-fi film, and a domestic comedy

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Academy Award, Annabelle, awards, Hollywood, Horror, Lego Movie, Lucy, Profits, Purge, The Fault in Our Stars

Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook might be the best horror movie of the decade

December 8, 2024 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

First time director Jennifer Kent makes a horror film for the ages.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Beyond Horror, Edward Gorey, Essie Davis, Horror, Jennifer Kent, movies, Noah Wiseman, Pan's Labyrinth, The Babadook, The Shining

The Stake Podcast Episode 8: The Horror! The Horror!

October 15, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

What you should watch this Halloween Viewing Season

Filed Under: Stake Podcast Tagged With: 28 Days Later, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien, Evil Dead, Halloween, Horror, horror movies, Jaws, Psycho, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, scary movies, Stephen King, Wes Craven

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