Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ and the Myth It Left Buried
The mummy franchise has survived Boris Karloff, Brendan Fraser, and Tom Cruise. It has not, in Lee Cronin’s hands, survived…
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What Dark Travelers Miss When Dracula Is All They Know of Transylvania
Five centuries of frontier war and mass death produced in Transylvania not a vampire legend but a folk theology —…
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Leipzig Prepares for Wave-Gotik-Treffen’s 33rd Edition
Over 130 acts across 50 venues signal a curatorial deepening at the world’s largest gathering of gothic and industrial subcultures…
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‘Mārama’ Reclaims Gothic Horror from the Colonizer’s Estate
Taratoa Stappard’s debut turns the manor house tradition against itself in a Māori revenge narrative that refuses gothic ambiguity.
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Argovia Launches ‘Primal Repetition’ Through Intimacy at Hall 74
The Bogotá progressive quartet presented their second album at Hall 74 the day after its official release, joined by Medellín’s…
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Cali Made Tropical Gothic Before the World Was Ready
The Cali Group developed Gótico Tropical from Colombian colonial rot in the 1970s. Its global moment is recognition fifty years…
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Why Developers Keep Reaching for Builders Over Block Themes
Developers favor builders for undisclosed affiliate revenue. Block themes now match builder design systems through theme.json version 3 and core…
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‘Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss’ Demands the Mythos Prove Itself
Big Bad Wolf’s first-person Lovecraftian thriller opens its demo on Steam five days before an April 16, 2026 release on…
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Lord of the Lost End a Dark Trilogy with ‘Opvs Noir Vol. 3’
Hamburg’s genre-defiant six-piece complete their 33-track trilogy with a maximalist third volume that tests the album format’s place in dark…
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‘Faces of Death’ Remakes Mondo Myth for the Algorithm Age
Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei reroute the 1978 mondo cult object through a content moderator’s screen in a slasher film…
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Genki Kawamura’s ‘Exit 8’ Opens in Theaters via Neon
Kawamura’s psychological horror film ‘Exit 8’ opens in U.S. theaters today via Neon, adapted from Kotake Create’s viral 2023 indie…
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Enslaved Opens Unholy Halloween at Oslo Spektrum in October
The Haugesund progressive black metal veterans bring their 35-year argument to Oslo Spektrum on October 31, alongside Satyricon and Dimmu…
