My sounds of the day are to be found on the wonderful For The Dead Travel Fast playlist assembled by a lady I mention often here, the enchanting and talented Sarah Elisabeth of Unquiet Things. Featuring 62 supernatural offerings from films such as The Witch, Halloween and Black Swan, I've had this unsurpassed assemblage on… Continue reading Sounds Of The Day : For The Dead Travel Fast
My boyfriend has an undying love for John Carpenter's Halloween, and I can honestly say that I've never met someone so fiery passionate about a movie before - and the time for us to watch it together arrived last night. It felt somewhat ritualistic as he dimmed the lights and I put a candle in… Continue reading Re-watching Halloween
The first half of the 2012 horror Sinister was so fucking rich with solid, nightmarish content - even the soundtrack was blood chilling - that when I went to bed I was genuinely scared to turn the lights off, I mean like I was literally running the few feet from the kitchen to the bedroom.… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : Sinister
The other week I encountered the esoteric work of Brian Sheenan AKA Legerdemain and, for a moment, the world stopped spinning. Everything went silent and I was, for a while, somewhere else, somewhere dark, somewhere unsafe for mere mortals. Brian manipulates vintage and new photography to create macarbe visages which, once seen, are utterly impossible… Continue reading The Witches & Wraiths Of Instagram : Legerdemain
Welcome to instalment four of my Shopping In The Dark series. I've decided to dedicate this post to some of the strangest, finest shops that I've found on Etsy that sell exquisite pins and patches. I hope that you enjoy my selection (click on the pictures to be taken straight to the product you want… Continue reading Shopping In The Dark : Pins & Patches Special
I don't know how Orphan slipped my attention for so long - it was released way back in 2009 - but the other night I finally got around to sitting down and watching it. Usually I'm quite good when it comes to figuring out what's going out in psychological horror movies, but Orphan had me… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : Orphan
Can we all please raise a toast to the master of photography manipulation Bryce Edsall.
I wasn't able to scroll past 'The Angel' by Slovak artist Miroslav Pecho, without saving it and sharing.
The goal of Russian artist Moppaa is to make art that will have viewers 'shit their pants.' I don't think that will be too difficult for this self confessed maniac.
I'm a big fan of the work of M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village) so was expecting something memorable from his 2015 horror The Visit. And I wasn't disappointed. This found footage movie about two youngsters who go and visit their maternal grandparents for the first time had me screaming. Actually screaming.… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : The Visit
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 