Antifa allegedly uses inflatable frog costumes as tactical disguises to hide identities while appearing harmless at protests, ...
Charlie Polinger achieves a lot with relatively little with his feature directorial debut, “The Plague.” Getting a wide release this week, this slice of psychological horror is quite effective despite ...
In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...
William Golding’s 1954 novel “The Lord of the Flies” strands a group of young boys on an island. There, they must fend for themselves, but in the absence of rules and ethics, they devolve into ...
“There's this desire to push boundaries and wreak chaos,” says the director of capturing the liminal tween years in his Cannes Film Festival break-out. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...
Adolescence and horror fit together like peanut butter and jelly. There is something about the natural elevation of emotion that comes with puberty – something we can all remember even if we’re long ...
Exclusive: Charlie Polinger's first feature premiered at Cannes and stars Joel Edgerton as the head of a water polo camp made up of boys wreaking havoc upon each other. Adolescence, and especially at ...
Ten years ago, the World Health Organization declared a sound injury epidemic, warning that 50% of people ages 12–35 were at risk of permanent hearing damage from recreational noise exposure. One of ...
Editor’s note: Welcome to the world of “Paranormal PA,” a PennLive series that delves into Pennsylvania-grown stories of spirits; cryptids; oddities and legends; and the unexplained. Sign up here to ...
This isn’t about that night you dropped too much MDMA at the club. And no, it’s not a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track either (even if “dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead” would’ve been a fitting soundtrack).
In July of 1518, in Strasbourg, Alsace (what is now modern-day France), a woman stepped out into the street and began to dance. There was no music that started her dancing, and there was nothing that ...
The plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. The person contracted the rare and dangerous disease after being bitten by ...