We like to keep a reasonable distance between what we see on screen and what experience in our mundane, everyday, completely and utterly safe real life. That’s why there’s something indescribably sinister about the words “based on a true story”. Luckily for us horror fans, this is often a vast exaggeration. We should by now…
Tag: horror film
3 Cases of (Supposed) Demonic Possession
As I mentioned in Vol. 2 of my handy, dandy Ghost Guide, I’m skeptical of labelling any case as “demonic”, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe in the possibility of possession. As long as humanity has believed in an ethereal world, it has believed in possessions and one day, I will write for hours…
The Amityville Saga, Part Two: The Lutz Haunting
If you thought the Amityville story begins and ends with a family massacre, I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Fast forward through the trial that found Ronald DeFeo Jr. guilty of six counts of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, and we’re in December 1975. 112 Ocean Avenue had been sitting empty for 13…
The Hawthorn Files 