Brought to life by Leiji Matsumoto's vivid imagination - Gun Frontier weaves together elements of science fiction with classic Western tropes to present viewers with an enthralling tale centered around two unlikely allies embarking on perilous adventures throughout a barren landscape known as the Gun...
The Vampire Diaries breathes new life into vampire mythology, elaborating upon age-old tropes while complementing them with fresh perspectives. Set against the backdrop of Mystic Falls—a town steeped in supernatural history—the series intertwines ancient beings' narratives with those of more ...
The Twilight Zonehas been a creepy classic ever since it first aired in 1959, and it's now available for online streaming. The show's spooky stories served as the basis for many now-classic horror tropes, also spawning numerous spin-off books, games, comic books, and even theme-park attr...
‘The Twilight Zone’ for more deranged sensibilities, the anthology movie ‘Southbound’ takes place in an eerie purgatorial desert in which various characters wind up trapped and face bizarre supernatural threats. Each macabre installment expertly segues into the next one: ‘Siren,’ Roxanne Benja...
“Do-do do-do, do-do, do-do…”No, we haven’t fallen asleep on our keyboard, we’re just reciting the immortal intro music toThe Twilight Zone— obviously! Such is the impact of Rod Serling's series, which gathered some of the best speculative writers and stories of the time, that...
the grim events unfold in the states of Ohio and West Virginia, respectively. While the action is not located in the deep South, the story has many of the tropes synonymous with the Southern Gothic genre, notably: religious fanaticism, explicit sexuality, flawed characters, sickening violence, ...
fi TV series to re-watch now in part because it still seems to have a divided soul.The X-Filesfeatures standalone episodes that are underpinned by a long-running series plot. Its special effects seem cheesy at times and excellent at others. It invented its own tropes and then indulged ...
The Lord of the Rings: Gandalf certainly fits this, along with certain other death tropes. He even falls into an abyssal pit and everything, so nobody actually sees what happened next. And not only does he get sent back to the living world, he's sent back superpowered. Well, more supe...
The Duffer Brothers' nostalgic coming-of-age series is rooted in the 1980s and references a host of iconic tropes in horror, science-fiction, and mystery. Set in a small town in Indiana, the first season begins with the disappearance of a young boy, Will Byers. As his mother, Joyce, ...
Wes Craven’s horror-comedy is so genuinely smart about the tropes of the slasher film that it still feels like a revelation more than 25 years later. The movie follows Sydney Bristow, a young girl who becomes the obsession of the town’s resident serial killer. The twist here is that th...