#229 Mar/Apr 2026

A nerve-shredding found-footage thriller built around sound, UNDERTONE signals the arrival of a terrifying new voice in Canada’s booming independent horror scene. Plus! Meet the new breed of independent Canadian horror filmmakers behind DREAM EATER, SWEETNESS, HANGASHORE, THE LAND OF NOD and THE CURSE OF GHOST ISLAND. Part post-punk, part darkwave, TRAITRS represents a modern strain of music rooted in horror cinema, religious unease, and psychological dread. Plus! The quiet horror of modern darkwave. The insanity-inducing cosmic creation may have arisen from H.P. Lovecraft’s pen but, for some, CTHULHU has long since slipped out of the confines of pulp horror to assume a strange life of his own. Plus! A side-by-side comparison of Lovecraft’s most infamous fictional faith and its real-world offshoot. Built on 16mm grit, practical gore, and the outsider ethos of 1970s horror, DOLLY marks filmmaker Rod Blackhurst’s savage return to the bloodsoaked traditions of grindhouse cinema DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Keep Showing Up POST-MORTEM Letters from fans, readers, and weirdos THE CORONER’S REPORT Weird Stats & Morbid Facts, Expired Minds, Shadowland, and more! NEEDFUL THINGS Strange trinkets from our bazaar of the bizarre CINEMACABRE The newest films and reissues featuring Jan Komasa’s Heel REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: The Silent Scream (1979) THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR ODDITY: Creating Your Personal Horror Curriculum BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre’s Mama Came Callin’ THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Menacing Monochrome World of McMonster DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Flies ’n’ Lies: The Amityville Column AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Final Gasp PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Forbidden Solitaire and Pathologic 3 VS DEBATE: Is sound scarier than visuals in a horror movie?