Zach Cregger's Resident Evil May Be the Best Horror Movie of 2026
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is a freight-train horror comedy with a relatable protagonist, tight 95-minute runtime, and zero fat. Alain Loubeau says it's the best horror film of 2026…and it just may be.
The Difference Between Creating and Performing
Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on the moment she realized she wasn't creating anymore, she was manufacturing. On soul-driven work versus content engineered for approval.
Artist Spotlight: Laura Nagel
Argentine illustrator Laura Nagel on "Forgotten Fairy Tales": whimsical digital illustrations of lost folklore, liminal spaces, and the creatures that live where nature and magic meet.
How Well Do You Remember Your 5th Birthday Party?
Photographer William Josephs Radford on Transparent: six months removing his father from family photographs, pixel by pixel, and what that process revealed about memory, grief, and erasure.
Undertone (2026): Great Concept, Underwhelming Execution
Undertone made $22 million on a $500,000 budget. The sound design is genuinely impressive and the demon mythology is fascinating. But a slow burn only works if there's a great payoff at the end. Full spoiler review.
Artist Spotlight: Raven Ramirez Cantu
Houston artist Raven Ramirez Cantu on "Bipolar Women," her ongoing series of acrylic, pastel, and ink drawings that turns raw emotion into something haunting, eerie, and healing.
Generation Is Not Production
Composer Klimenko VG on 20,000 generated versions, the distinction between generation and production, and why AI abundance makes human judgment more important, not less.
Can 300 Strangers Write A Book?
At 22, Matthew King started The Secret Entrance with a simple question: why do the random, spontaneous parts of life disappear as we get older? Experiment 001 is his answer.
The Gray: A Short Horror Story by Clay Boone
A soldier sees UFOs over Baghdad in 2003. Years later, working at Area 51, he records something he was never meant to hear. Clay Boone's original horror fiction for Feeling Creative.
Performer Spotlight: Mauricio Vanegas
Colombian circus artist Mauricio Vanegas on learning the Wheel of Death, fracturing two vertebrae and coming back, creating original tricks, and performing with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.
The World Tried to Give Me Grey. I Answered With Color.
Ukrainian oil painter Mari Bloom on fleeing war with twenty dollars and a suitcase full of paints, the Between the Wars series, and why beauty is not decoration but an argument.
What I Learned From My First Book Signing
Self-published author Ben Cibula on his first in-person book signing: why Twin Peaks sold his novel, why presentation matters more than you think, and what he'd do differently next time.
Indie-Horror Film Spotlight: OBITUS
Filmmaker Rec Revan on OBITUS: a body horror film about a tongue-eating parasite adapted to human hosts, shot independently in Azerbaijan and scheduled for release November 2026.
Artist Spotlight: Naomi Fisher
Canadian/American artist Naomi Fisher on a decade of environmental body art, building costumes from Spanish moss and chlorophyll, and why what we discard is still part of us.
The Valiant Alliance: Christopher Valentine Completes His Hero Trilogy
Christopher Valentine completes his Damara/Valiant Knight trilogy with The Valiant Alliance: a 1960s sci-fi hero story about hope, DC mythology, and what modern superhero stories have forgotten.
Artist Spotlight: Evgenia Smirnova
Saint Petersburg-born artist Evgenia Smirnova on her ongoing watercolor series: imaginary nocturnal landscapes inhabited by whales, bulls, and black cats, painted from feeling rather than plan.
Dracula: The Story of the World's Most Famous Monster
Before Bram Stoker, people were genuinely burying their dead with bricks in their mouths and sickles across their throats. The full story of Vlad the Impaler, the Vampire of Venice, and how a 15th-century prince became the most famous monster in history.
What I Learnt Publishing My First Book
Self-published author Tye Burroughs on the six steps he wished he'd known: planning, drafts, formatting, ARCs, storefronts, and the soul-crushing part nobody warns you about.
Tattoo Artist Spotlight: Ashish Gupta
Mumbai-based tattoo artist Ashish Gupta on fine line realism, ten years of skin-as-canvas, and why reading a client's comfort level is half the job.
Collecting Decay: Why My Monthly Postcards Travel Without an Envelope
German artist Claudia Schmidt on Candy Decay: surreal paintings where skulls sit next to strawberries, and monthly postcards that travel without envelopes because they were never meant to arrive untouched.