Tag: Tentacles

Tentacles Can’t Quite Get Its Arms Wrapped Around Its Jaws-Inspired Scares

March 12, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

Even before Jaws changes the box office rules forever, eco-horror was a somewhat popular horror subgenre in the 1970s. Frogs, Phase IV, and Night of the Lepus found nature in a foul mood with humanity. And technically, Jaws isn’t really an eco-horror in its narrative design. But Spielberg’s classic killer shark movie inspired a host […]

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Nature Strikes Back: The Best and Worst of ‘70’s Eco-Horror

March 20, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Happy First Day of Spring! The sun is shining a little longer. Birds are singing again in the morning. And the ground is starting to thaw. Soon nature will be alive and all around us. Maybe that’s not such a good thing. We haven’t treated nature very well. Horror scholars have long pointed out that […]

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