Local authorities report the mysterious disappearance of the skull of German director F.W. Murnau (1888-1931), creator of the gigantic classic of expressionism from the ’20s: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens), a free adaptation of Bram…
Even though we could translate the English adjective “creepy” as “chilling” (or “horrifying”, to name two common examples) we would be incurring a gross distortion. It is impossible to define why something is “creepy”, however, we could all identify it…
In an article published in the journal Science, New York University researcher Erno Hermans argued that horror movies are excellent gymnastics for the brain. Horror movies (the good ones, we suppose) seem to stimulate the brain to deal with stressful…
