Acid Horror History Posts
A series of retrospective essays on pieces of media in the emerging subgenre of Acid Horror.
June 15, 2025
Acid Horror History #4 - Life is a Nightmare: Sigmund Freud, The Sandman, and Phantasm (1979)
I’ve asked the question; What is Acid Horror? But now I want to explore it, prod it like a surgeon with a knife - pick apart the bits and pieces that make it up. Join me for this retrospective series of short essays as we explore the media whi…
April 14, 2023
Acid Horror History #3 - Bad Trip: Acid Culture, Dialectical Materialism, and Altered States (1980)
I’ve asked the question; What is Acid Horror? But now I want to explore it, prod it like a surgeon with a knife - pick apart the bits and pieces that make it up. Join me for this retrospective series of short essays as we explore the media whi…
Dec. 11, 2022
Acid Horror History #2 - We Are Legion: The Body Without Organs and The Thing (1982)
I’ve asked the question; What is Acid Horror? But now I want to explore it, prod it like a surgeon with a knife - pick apart the bits and pieces that make it up. Join me for this retrospective series of short essays as we explore the media whi…
Nov. 2, 2022
Acid Horror History #1 - Death, Decay, and The Fly (1986)
I’ve asked the question; What is Acid Horror? But now I want to explore it, prod it like a surgeon with a knife - pick apart the bits and pieces that make it up. Join me for this retrospective series of short essays as we explore the media whi…
Oct. 24, 2022
What is Acid Horror?
“I began to dread, vainly proposing to myself the dogmas of science that all life is material, and that in the system of things there is no undiscovered land, even beyond the remotest stars, where the supernatural can find a footing. Yet there…