Last week, I looked into Jeffrey Dahmer’s crimes and talked about his victims. This week, I look into his background to answer the question of who would commit such horrific acts? “Jeffy” Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By all accounts, his parents were incompatible […] The post Spiral into Darkness: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Part 2) appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

Let me start with this off by saying that I haven’t had this much fun in a long time. The fact that the Unnamed Footage Festival played almost exclusively messed up and bleak content only seemed to add to the fun. It really goes to show what a positive and uplifting community horror fans can […] The post Unnamed Footage Festival 2021: Block 3 and Festival Highlights appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

Every other Sunday, we’ll be highlighting the best in scary audio storytelling, be it podcasts, audiobooks, radio plays, and more. This is Sounds Scary. This Sunday we’re listening to Gimlet Media’s The Horror of Dolores Roach. In the last gasps of the 19th century, a small theatre in France began drawing massive crowds for wanton displays of […] The post Sounds Scary: The Horror of Dolores Roach appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

Trigger Warning: this article makes reference to rape, sexual assault, paedophilia, violence against women, pregnancy, racism, classism, and gore. Tender is the Flesh is a 2017 novel by Agustina Bazterrica set in a dystopian world where cannibalism is legal. The background for this is that all animals have been infected by a virus fatal to […] The post Tender Is the Flesh, and So Is the Human Condition appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

Modern dating is a nightmare, especially for Fresh’s Noa (War of the Worlds’ Daisy Edgar-Jones). Navigating dating apps, pretentious privileged hipsters, and dangerous lone walks down dark alleys back to her car is enough for anyone to swear off the pursuit of love. While in the throes of complacency after another terrible date, Noa meets Steve (Falcon […] The post Sundance 2022: Fresh Is Cannibalistic Fun You’ll Just Devour appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

The follow up to his cosmic horror novella The Nothing That Is, OH PAIN (stylized in all capitals) is the upcoming short story collection from Kyle Winkler, an assistant professor at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. Winkler could not have chosen a better title for this collection. Every story is full of suffering, sadness, and […] The post OH PAIN Is an Emotional Powerhouse of Short Stories appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

Getting into the film industry sounds extremely difficult and incredibly frustrating, to be honest. This is why I’m even more impressed when a director’s debut film manages to go above and beyond. Obviously, some of them are already established in other fields and have a leg-up in the money department or the backing of a […] The post Six Shockingly Good Directorial Debuts appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

Thirty-two-year-old Tracy Edwards was running from a real-life house of horrors. Little did he know that the mild-mannered man who approached him five hours earlier would try to kill him.  According to Edwards’s testimony at Dahmer’s trial, he was hanging out with friends in Milwaukee Wisconsin, on July 22, 1991. A man, later identified as […] The post Spiral Into Darkness: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Part 1) appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

I’ve written before about how extreme horror novels can get away with so much more than films can due to the fact that they’re just words on a page. Sure, they may be repulsive, but at the end of the day the reader is filling in the blanks on their own rather than being shown […] The post Opposite Ends of Extreme Horror in Woom and Succulent Prey appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more

There are not a whole lot of Thanksgiving horror movies out there. It’s a niche market just waiting for its comeuppance. I guess in constructing a Thanksgiving-centered horror feature, you’d have to consider what the day is all about in the 21st century. Gluttony, greed, and consumerism are all themes in Erick Lorinc’s slasher comedy […] The post Salem Horror Fest 2020: Cannabalistic Pilgrims Prepare for ‘The Last Thanksgiving’ appeared first on Horror Obsessive ..read more