Crash

A linkblog about horror, scifi, & crime

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Brian Tyree Henry talks 'Atlanta,' Paper Boi, and the power of pettiness

But please: call his character Alfred

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Disaster lurks in every corner of a Museum of London exhibition exploring that city’s great fire of 1666. How should would-be firefighters rescue an imaginary warren of houses? With leather buckets and grappling hooks? Or Minecraft maps?

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In an age of comic-book blockbusters and viral sensations, whatever happened to the cult movie?

Anyone who lived through the heyday of the video store era in the ’80s and ’90s will remember that in any home video establishment worth its salt – or its late fees – you’d find a section specially devoted to cult movies.

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Good guys, bad guys, cops and intrigue — it's all part of the world of Latino noir fiction. Author Carmen Amato takes us on a tour of the genre.

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Writing "The Other" (and The Self)

How to respectfully write from the perspective of characters that aren't you.

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Are shorts the future of commercials?

How do you get an audience to watch an ad in 2016? By pretending it's something else.

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The French sci-fi comic that inspired Blade Runner and Akira

Métal Hurlant was the daring magazine that broke all the rules and altered the course of science-fiction’s aesthetic forever

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Elizabeth Greenwood has spent a lot of time researching the death fraud industry. She says the hardest step for many aspiring fraudsters would be cutting all ties with friends and family.

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The modern 'Big Bad Wolf' is a chiller

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"Style is the culmination of your mistakes"

Cinematographer Sean Porter on 'Green Room'

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The use of pulp conventions in The Heart Goes Last undermines Atwood’s claim that speculative fiction is the antithesis of those cheesy, escapist fantasies about talking squids in outer space

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The 2016 Horror Halftime Report

We're halfway through 2016 - well, okay, a month and change after - and I'll be goddamned if this isn't already one of the best years for horror in a long time.

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Piotr Uklański's dark, fatal attraction

Known for addressing sex, politics, death, and pop culture in his controversial artwork, the Polish artist Piotr Uklański consistently takes an eccentric, rebellious approach to various forms of media.

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Fireside Fiction’s report, #BlackSpecFic, finds less than 2% of SF stories published in 2015 were by black writers