The “Sam Neill Goes Batshit” Trilogy: Why Omen III, In the Mouth of Madness and Event Horizon Define 90s Horror

By guest contributor Adam Page I want to start by addressing something that may seem like a ludicrous claim on its surface. I want to argue that Sam Neill, the charming New Zealander who played Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and whose default facial expression is a sort of warm, self-deprecating amusement, is arguably the […]

In The Mouth of Madness: Where Fiction Bleeds

By guest contributor Adam Page Let’s talk about dread. That particular kind which doesn’t make a fuss slamming doors or leaping out from closets. This one seeps. A feeling you get rereading the fine print on a contract you’ve already signed. That sense, creeping up your spine at 2am when you realise the map you’re […]

The Last Thing He Saw Was Everything: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes and the Lovecraftian Abyss

By guest contributor Adam Page There is a certain kind of dread, and it’s one that has nothing to do with jump scares or monsters or chainsaws. It doesn’t announce itself; it quietly seeps in, until suddenly things are very wrong. Roger Corman knew this in 1963, probably by accident, the way most great things […]