Tracing the first vampire duck is troublesome, for its history, like many historical events, is shadowed in legend and myth. But the first and most well-known depiction of a vampire duck (in mortal history) can be traced to Scott Shaw! , who created "Duckula!" in 1976 for the first edition of the comic book Quack!

Director and writer Tom McLoughlin is one of those super interesting people in horror who have created so many cool projects in his lifetime, you almost can’t believe he’s mortal. Bow down to his legacy! McLoughlin, a creative tour-de-force, is well-known for writing and directing Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives in 1986, resurrecting Jason from the dead (skipping right past Part V) with a bolt of electricity – creating a supernatural, zombified Jason.

At brunch last Sunday, Chicago woman Karen Cortez was recently asked to explain her ethnic background to her white friends, since they weren’t sure she was actually half-Mexican because she definitely didn’t look half-Mexican to them, but then again she didn’t look completely white to them either. Instead of justifying her appearance for the millionth time, Cortez said “fuck this shit” and immediately hired a tenured Biology professor to explain multiraciality to her friends. Dr. Beverly Hare, a Genetics professor from Duke University, joined their brunch table and began to explain: “Genotype is the genetic makeup of an organism, but the phenotype is how genetic and environmental influences create physical appearance.” “That’s not how sperm works,” argued 24-year old Connor Jackson, a sheltered white dude from Iowa, even though he didn’t graduate college and is living off checks from his parents. According to Jackson, “White sperm isn’t as strong as brown sperm, or rather, a brown egg is tougher than a white man’s sperm, so all mixed race babies should look like the non-white person. Duh!” Dr. Hare, flabbergasted that a person without a degree would challenge a person considered an expert in her field, explained that ‘race’ has no effect on the way sperm impregnates an egg, and added that race is a complicated social construct, but Jackson could not be dissuaded. “Yo, I know cum,” Jackson said, with an air of millenial authority. “Particularly my own cum. My cum would lose the DNA battle and my babies would look mixed as fuck. Just look at Obama. His dad had stronger cum. That’s what made him so great. It’s cum genetics.” Dr. Hare left the restaurant soon after muttering about the Dunning–Kruger effect, while the rest of the table went on to discuss cum-spider-big-dick-womb-gene wars. Except for Cortez, who left to find better friends.

Kirk Hammett, the lead guitarist for Metallica, loves heavy metal and horror. Hammett was one of the fun people selected to be a guest curator for AMC’s horror app Shudder; in addition, there’s a interview with him streaming about his life-long love of horror. Hammett was ranked by Rolling Stones as one of the greatest guitar players of all time, ranking #11 out of 100.

Game of Thrones ended its run on HBO last Sunday and fans were furious with the finale—because nobody fucked on the throne. Fans predicted that Jon Snow was The Prince Who Was Promised. He seemed destined for a higher purpose, and while many thought it was to kill the Night King, other scholars speculated that he returned from the dead for one purpose only: to fuck on the iron throne.

Jordan Peele’s Us had a $70.3 million dollar weekend, a great opening for a thought-provoking horror film with an original premise. But what the heck are dopplegangers? A doppleganger is a double of a person — in the film referred to as a ‘tether.’ The term is derived from the German word ‘doppelgänger,’ which means double-walker or double-goer. It’s based on ‘true’ accounts of people seeing doppelgangers of themselves and others. According to legend, seeing your own doppelganger is a harbinger for death.

Kourtney Mason was tired of whitewashing, the practice of casting of white actors taking roles meant for people of color, so she decided to do something about it — by playing a woman of color in a film about whitewashing, even though she’s whiter than the state of Vermont. According to Deadline, the film Washed was accepted into the Sundance Film Festival, where it is expected to win the Grand Jury Prize, and may very well score Mason a Best Actress nomination in her role as Rosa Parks, Michael Jordan, and Cheech Marin.

Lucio Fulci, the Master and Godfather of Gore, made a dozen acclaimed horror films before he passed in 1996. Although he’s known for the Gates of Hell trilogy, Fulci directed westerns, black comedies, and fantasy films. It’s interesting to learn from Wikipedia that Fulci directed documentaries and wrote comedies too before turning to the horror genre.

Witches and folk horror will always be interesting to me. The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is about a mother and daughter living in an isolated town, descendants of Irish settlers, who left England years ago for religious freedom. Although set in 1973, the townspeople cling to their old way of life, similar to the Amish.

It’s 2020, and America is the final girl in a horror film, screaming in crazed joy-hate after the villain has been overcome. you guessed it—Donald Trump. The final girl is the one who survives in a horror film, the lead character who escapes the killer while the “bad girls” are punished with death.

“A Creepshow Animated Special”, directed by Greg Nictoero (“Creepshow”, “The Walking Dead”), is a horror-animated special based on two short stories: one written by Stephen King and the other by his son Joe Hill. It’s a celebration of horror! It’s a one-hour adaptation of Stephen King’s short story “Survivor Type” and Joe Hill’s “Twittering from the Circus of the Dead.”.

The first annual BlumFest is here this Halloween, starting on October 29th at 10 am—in the morning. Get that pumpkin coffee ready! BlumFest includes fun panels, previews, news, interviews, never seen before footage, and horror entertainment streaming all day long on their Youtube and Facebook page.

Phenomena is a murder mystery with fantastical elements set in the Swiss Alps. Although Dario Argento is notorious for his art-house Giallo masterpieces, he has also made fun horror films — visual horror sleaze at its best. Phenomena is one of Dario Argento’s best works that gets overshadowed by the more prominent Suspiria. That is why I decided to compile a list of some fun and brutal tidbits about the film. THE QUEEN OF THE FLIES Jennifer Connelly plays a girl who sleepwalks at her new school; she may have a split personality, but her second personality has the psychic ability to connect with telepathic insects, as in, they do her bidding. Flies, butterflies, maggots – they all love her! The actress gives a moving performance as a strong-willed girl with supernatural powers, who befriends an older scientist. The jealous girls at school try to bully her because she’s the beautiful daughter of a movie star, but she calls down a rain of flies on the estate. Back off, ya’ll!

The Witches of Hollywood is a preliminary, fifty-five-minute cut of the upcoming documentary WITCH: HEX THE PATRIARCHY. It examines witch archetypes in tv shows and films and focuses on social activism. Directed by Sophie Peyrard, it features analysis from writers, scholars, academics, and activists: Danica London, Heather Green, Kristen Sollee, Pam Grossman, and Peg Aloi.

Bleed With Me, written and directed by Amelia Moses, is a horror film about emotional vampires. A detached, introverted girl visits her extroverted friend and boyfriend at a winter cabin—at first, everything seems to be great, but Emily (Lauren Beatty) is a bit controlling towards Rowan (Lee Marshall), the one who is visiting.

Netflix dropped Love, Death & Robots’ tour-de-force trailer. Get ready for 18 mind-blowing animated stories! The highly anticipated Love, Death & Robots from Tim Miller and David Fincher is coming to Netflix — and it’s going to be a favorite with fans across genres. This animated series is a science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comedy anthology for adults, not tweens.