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Almost a half century since its release, John Carpenter’s The Thing is still a staple in the horror movie landscape. To this day, watchers and fans of The Thing debate the movie’s open-ended ending. Everyone wants to know who’s still human and who is the thing? Is MacReady (Kurt Russell) the thing? Or is it Childs (Keith David)? While that debate is fun, while watching The Thing for the…
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Video games played a big hand in the development of my media literacy. When I was younger, the general sentiment around video games was that they “rot your brain.” While I agree, too much of anything could be bad for you, my family’s relationship to video games was different. My brother and I began bonding and developing our media…
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Gil Kenan’s 2006 film, Monster House, is beloved by many and is frequently included in movie recommendations lists around Halloween. It’s almost been 20 years since its initial release, so I wanted to revisit it to see how it has held up. I was 11 when it came out, and the odd art style and bumbling animations turned me off for a…
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners‘ David Martinez never had a choice in how his life unfolded. Unfortunately for him, the only thing Night City knows how to do is take, and take, and take without any remorse for the damage done along the way. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners shows us that in a monstrous city like Night City, there is…
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Monster narratives and monsters in stories have been popular for as long as I can remember (albeit 30 years isn’t very long), and they will continue being more relevant in 2026 because of the social climate that is fostering. As exhibited in my other posts, I love monster narratives in movies, books, and video games,…
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Before you start pointing pitchforks at me, you must know I don’t believe my headline and the film we’re looking at today doesn’t either. Women aging has been presented as this monstrous thing that we need to run from, and we’re going to see what Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 film Howl’s Moving Castle adds to the…
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If you read my previous post and thought the Thin Man has a striking resemblance to the internet phenomenon Slender Man, you thought the same as me (if you didn’t, I’ll catch you up to speed). Slender Man has been a monster I’ve known since early high school and is still relevant in online spaces…
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As previously explained, my blog is about monsters and creatures. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the popular image that comes to mind is probably some sort of inhuman being or something hiding under your bed (which is why Frankenstein was a great introduction). Today we’re going to continue forming that image by looking at…
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Ever since I was young, I had noticed the monsters all around me. They were in the books I read, the games I played, the movies I watched, and even cultural events. Loving Halloween was hard for a child who scared easily. As I grew, my observation about monsters being everywhere ended up developing into…