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The Beauty of Short Horror Films

Short horror films use a bare bones approach to storytelling to craft films to send chills down your spine. · Parker J. Cole

A Tribute to the Sower of Imagination, My Granny

A tribute to the woman who fed me the seeds of creativity and gave me the love for horror, sci-fi, and Jesus. · Parker J. Cole

Prospect: Why I Like Nobledark or Grimbright Better than Cheerful and Corrupt

Prospect is a movie I’d recommend over Rim of the World. I both review Prospect and say why I like its type of tale better. · Travis Perry

Free Original Storyworld Ideas, Part 5: GameLit (and Animal Eye)

The relatively new genre of GameLit shows some exciting opportunities for Christian writers of speculative fiction. Cindy Koepp’s new release, Animal Eye, is especially promising… · Travis Perry

Hard Time

As with any real life/entertainment contrast, the real world of incarceration doesn’t quite match up with what we see on screen when it comes to prisons and jails. · Mark Carver

The Joker in Film: A Case Study in Evil

Joker, the movie, has 11 Oscar nominations. How does it compare with other portrayals of the Joker in film? Which is a “greater evil” and what real-world evil people are they most like? · Travis Perry

The Sound and the Fury

How has heavy metal music influenced my writing? · Mark Carver

From the Archives: How Dark is Too Dark?

How dark is too dark? Is it permissible to include horrific and explicit elements in a story intended for the Christian market? · Mark Carver

Sharper than Any Double-Edged Sword

Do you get a thrill out of seeing images of darkness or sinful acts in a story? Where does this enjoyment come from? · Mark Carver

Bird Box: Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid

Is the only way to survive life’s brutal realities to willfully blind oneself to the truth, as in “Bird Box”? · Mark Carver

Keeping the Edge Sharp

The word “edgy” is not a friendly word. After all, what has edges? Knives, scalpels, axes. The sharper the edge, the better the cutting tool. Something “edgy” divides and separates into those who dig it and those who don’t. It’s challenging and often uncomfortable, rewarding for some and repulsive to others. · Mark Carver

Why I Quit Watching ‘Game Of Thrones’ and ‘The Walking Dead’

Let me tell you why I quit two of the most popular TV shows of the 21st century, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. · Mark Carver

On Behalf Of Young Christian Readers Who Don’t Want Clean, Unrealistic Stories

Young Christian readers want fantastical stories that transport us to other lands, where darkness lurks, yes, but where the light ultimately shines bright as a thousand stars. · Zac Totah

A Dark Mind

If Giger’s work embodies dark or even demonic sci-fi art, what would Christian sci-fi art look like? Could such a thing even exist? · Mark Carver

Black, White, & Gray

Just as Rogue One is not a particularly thoughtful movie, neither is it really a complex one. · Shannon McDermott

The Need For Diversity In Christian Fiction

The narrow approach to diversity makes itself painfully evident in Christian fiction. Why? The answer is simple. Diversity is too edgy. · Zac Totah

Pushing (Your) Boundaries

Edginess in art is a matter of pushing boundaries, and consequently is relative to what, and whose, boundaries. · Shannon McDermott

Some Jokes Are Not Funny

The way I see it, the Joker is a very good allegory for the human soul and psyche stripped of God’s grace. Man’s fallen nature doesn’t just wallow in sin; it runs headlong into sin’s arms · Mark Carver
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