Penny Lane Is Dead delivers strong practical gore and real tension inside its beach house setting. But Hope Madden finds the home invasion horror undercut by tonal clashes and a third act aimed at the wrong target.
1980s horror
They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara! E.F. Schraeder is Reflecting on Childhood Fears
E.F. Schraeder looks back at a 1980s Midwestern girlhood where the ordinary was the frightening part and the undead were a relief. The essay traces childhood fears through slasher films, the satanic panic and goth subculture, and explains exactly what job folk horror had to do. From the author of The Case for Cryptids.