Lights Out

Seeing Red Again: An Appreciation of Horror’s Greatest Visual Storytelling Tool

Matt Donato 47 Meters Down, Belzebuth, Crawl, Editorials, Evil Dead, Lights Out, Movies, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the descent

Frantic campers scavenge a park ranger’s rucksack inside his abandoned jeep. A shipwrecked sailor drags their waterproof emergency kit ashore. Apocalypse survivors raid a hardware depot after zombies chase civilization far away. Three different horror movie scenarios, all adding a holy grail item to whichever characters’ arsenal. Maybe loaded into a chamber, possibly as a […]

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‘Lights Out’ Channels ‘The Stepfather’ in First Book from the ‘Terror Academy’ Series [Buried in a Book]

Paul Lê Books, Buried In A Book, C.A. Stokes, Editorials, Lights Out, Nicholas Pine, Terror Academy

With copies of Fear Street flying off shelves, it only made sense for other publishers to put out their own young-adult horror series in the 1990s. And Berkley Books’ venture was Terror Academy, a fifteen-volume collection of high-school horror and thrills. C. A. Stokes, writing under the pen name of Nicholas Pine, kicked things off […]

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When ‘The Power’ Goes Out: 10 of the Scariest Scenes in Horror That Take Place in the Dark

Meagan Navarro 47 Meters Down, Alien, Cloverfield, Hell House LLC, Lake Mungo, Lights Out, REC, Sponsored, The Conjuring, the descent, The Power

Corinna Faith’s supernatural chiller, The Power, takes place in 1974 London when mandated blackouts plunged the city into darkness every night. It’s the worst-case scenario for Val (Rose Williams), a young nurse starting her very first night shift in an old hospital that’s mid-relocation. Trying to navigate the unfamiliar labyrinthine corridors at night, save for a lantern […]

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