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This is old-school, creature-feature chaos done with heart and guts. Think puppets, practical gore, and comic book madness. Think Tales from the Crypt meets The Dead Next Door with a sprinkle of homemade insanity. No studio gloss. No safety net. Just blood, sweat, and whatever sharp object is lying around.

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Inherit the Ashes Is the Kind of Music You Don’t Just Hear. You Carry It.

If Clint Mansell’s The Fountain left a mark, if you’ve ever let Disasterpeace’s It Follows score loop in your headphones while writing, if Gustavo Santaolalla’s The Last of Us made your chest ache, then Inherit the Ashes by Brandon Alvis is something you need to hear. This is not a side project or ambient filler. This is a record that holds weight. It’s the sound of someone laying their entire…

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"Fear and Hunger" Is One of the Most Brutal Horror Games You’ll Ever Touch

If Dark Souls and Silent Hill had a nightmare baby and then abandoned it in a dungeon, you’d get Fear and Hunger. This is one of the grimiest, most merciless horror RPGs out there, and it’s not for the casual crowd. This game does not care about your feelings. From the moment you start, you’re bleeding, starving, and cursed. Every move you make risks permanent consequences. There are no safe…

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"Darkwood" Does Fear Better Than Most AAA Horror Games

Darkwood is one of those games that punishes you for being brave. It’s top-down, black-and-white, and stripped down to the essentials. And somehow, it manages to be more terrifying than most first-person horror games with photorealistic graphics. You’re dumped into a forest that feels alive, angry, and ancient. You scavenge by day, then barricade yourself in a creaking house by night, listening…

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"Detention" Proves You Don’t Need Gore To Be Disturbing

Detention is one of those games that sticks with you, quietly, long after the screen goes black. Set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law, it’s a side-scrolling psychological horror that swaps jump scares for sheer emotional weight. And it hits. You control two students trapped in their high school while supernatural forces bleed through their memories and regrets. But this isn’t just about ghosts.…

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They’re not zombies. They’re worse. 28 Days Later changed horror forever.

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Mundfish’s "Atomic Heart" Had the Horror But Didn’t Know What To Do With It

Atomic Heart looked like it was going to be the next Bioshock. It had the creepy alt-Soviet setting, humanoid robots with dead eyes, and weirdly organic machines that pulse like living things. But while the aesthetics were on point, the game just didn’t commit to the horror. And it’s frustrating, because the potential was massive. The early hours drip with System Shock energy. You’ve got…

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Session 9 is psychological rot. One of the best horror films you never saw.

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The Ending of The Vanishing (1988), Explained: Evil Doesn’t Always Need a Reason

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"Signalis" Is Lowkey the Best Silent Hill Game That Isn’t Silent Hill

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Lake Mungo isn’t horror. It’s mourning in disguise.

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No jump scare hits harder than The Descent’s camcorder moment. Not even close.

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Jane Doe still haunts because she never speaks, and somehow says everything.

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Silent Hill f, Killing Floor 3, Dying Light: The Beast. The second half of 2025 is coming for your nerves. Which one are you betting on?

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Saber Interactive dropped a teaser and horror fans are seeing Hellraiser all over it. Cenobites? Lament box? The clues are there. Could this finally be the game we’ve been waiting for?

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Freddie Prinze Jr. says Sarah Michelle Gellar had the best horror movie death of all time. The alley. The store. The silence before it hits. He might not be wrong.

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Thirty bucks for popcorn and a tin. AMC’s betting horror fans will collect anything. Would you buy the I Know What You Did Last Summer bait box or skip the hype?