A family in Bexon took a photo in their living room. Three people stood in the frame. The picture showed four.
They knew exactly what they were looking at. So did the village.
Saint Lucians say more of them exist than anyone realizes. Living in homes. Hiding in the bush. Waiting to be fed.
#CreepyCurrent #SaintLucia #TiBolom #CaribbeanFolklore #ParanormalCaribbean
There was no blood on the ground. That was the part nobody could explain. Fifteen cows lay dead in a field at dawn, each with two small puncture wounds in the neck, and not a single drop spilled in the grass beneath them.
It was February 1975. The town was Moca, in the northwest of Puerto Rico. Within weeks the death toll climbed past thirty. Then a man watched lights spinning in the sky above the kill sites. Then the attacks shifted from animals to people. Then a farmer in Barrio Pulido described something dropping out of the dark above him—a horrible creature, covered in feathers, with talons reaching for his throat.
The Senate opened an investigation. Police blamed wild dogs. Then satanic cults. They never found a single piece of evidence.
In July 1975, the killings simply stopped.
Twenty years later, something started draining livestock in the same country. They gave that one a name the world would remember.
But it wasn’t the first.
#CreepyCurrent #MocaVampire #PuertoRicoHorror #CaribbeanFolklore #CrypticCreatures
In 1934, the Hays Code made it illegal to show queer characters on screen. So filmmakers hid them in horror, coded as villains, monsters and killers. Norman Bates. Freddy’s Revenge. Cruising. Decades of borrowing queer fear without ever crediting the source.
Director @troyesc ’s new film @hollowlakemovie is what happens when a gay filmmaker finally gets to tell the story himself, mess and all.
The film had its Canadian premiere at @toihorrorfest in April and screens next at Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival in Columbia, S.C. from May 15 to 17.
We traced the line from 1930s Hollywood censorship to the 2026 queer slasher, and talked to Escamalia about what changes when queer characters stop being the threat and start being the heart of the film. Full feature at the 🔗 in bio.
#CreepyCurrent #QueerHorror #HollowLake #HorrorHistory #SlasherFilm
Theres a place in the Caribbean that terrified the Spanish colonizers.
The Bahoruco Mountains. A range so feared in the 1600s that they refused to enter alone. They travelled in armed groups of twenty. Thirty. They built their villages with eyes locked on the treeline. They prayed before nightfall.
Because something lived in those mountains.
The colonists called them Biembienes. Small. Twisted. Climbing cliffs unlike humans. Leaving backwards footprints in the mud so no man could track them. They moved in clans through the dark.
And the worst of them, the ones with rust-red hair, were called mondongos. The mondongos ate human flesh.
Hunters who entered Bahoruco never came back. Soldiers who marched in found empty caves and cooking fires still warm. The Spanish abandoned entire expeditions. They wrote letters home about the things in the trees.
Five hundred years later, hikers in those same mountains still report the same things. Footsteps with no source. Grunts in the canopy. Backwards prints in the dirt that lead nowhere at all.
#CreepyCurrent #horrorfolklore #Biembienes #CaribbeanFolklore #Bahoruco
Fifteen minutes from Port of Spain sits an island most Trinidadians have never set foot on. Its jail cells are still standing. Its quarantine wards are still standing. And the people who’ve spent a night there say the silence is the loudest part.
Over a hundred and nineteen years, Nelson Island held the sick, the displaced, the imprisoned, and the forgotten. Some never made it off.
Would you spend a night there?
#NelsonIsland #TrinidadAndTobago #CaribbeanHorror #horrorhistory #CreepyCurrent
An overdose amid a night of unrestrained debauchery haunts a group of friends in the horror film @meatthemovie .
Directed by Roger Conners @thescreamqueer , Meat is a masterclass on subverting the male gaze, which has plagued the slasher subgenre ever since the slasher was popularized in the early 1970s.
The slasher genre has a long history of putting women’s bodies on display. Since John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978, the formula has been remarkably consistent. Female characters undress. The camera lingers. They die.
Conners wanted to flip that.
“There’s something shocking about male nudity, and it can really make the casual moviegoer very uncomfortable,” Conners said.
“I want people to be uncomfortable.”
See 🔗 in bio for full story.
#slasherhorror #creepycurrent #queerhorror #horrorslasher #queerslasher
The Amerindian peoples have spoken of it for centuries. The miners still leave offerings. There are stretches of river where, even today, no one fishes after dark. 🇬🇾
#CreepyCurrent #Guyana #Massacooraman #CaribbeanFolklore #ParanormalCaribbean
Seventeen schoolgirls. One language nobody could understand. And spirits the elders said had been waiting two centuries to be heard. What happened in Moruga, Trinidad in 2010 has never been explained. Would you have stayed in that classroom?
#CreepyCurrent #TrinidadHorror #CaribbeanParanormal #MorugaPossession #TrueHorrorStories
A killer with a high-heel shoe. Two drag queens who can’t stand each other. One remote campground where nobody’s safe.
Halloween Headliners is a queer horror short that mixes camp, comedy and slasher carnage. And somehow nails all three. We speak with the film’s directors and with the producer @therealelvirus to talk about many things including why queerness and horror have always belonged together, the pandemic-era drag feud that inspired the film, and what it’s like getting hosed down with fake blood at 1 a.m.
The film premiered at @toihorrorfest and screens next at @shockstockcanada in London, Ontario.
See 🔗 in bio for full article.
#CreepyCurrent #QueerHorror #HalloweenHeadliners #IndieHorror #ShockStock
When a man won’t talk about what’s inside him, the horror writes itself. Director @joffhurlburt ’s debut short, Foreboding, turns male silence into nine minutes of daylight terror. The film premiered at the @toihorrorfest in April at the @eyesore_cinema . Story 🔗 in bio.
#CreepyCurrent #MentalHealthHorror #IndieHorrorFilm #Foreboding #CanadianHorror
Why does queerness belong in horror? We asked the people behind some of the boldest queer horror at this year’s @toihorrorfest . Their answers? Chef’s kiss. 🩸🏳️🌈
#QueerHorror #HorrorCommunity #IndieHorror #TorontoIndieHorrorFest
Videographer: Carol Chung
They were gunned down fighting for their rights on a sugar estate in 1948. Five men—Lallabagie, Harry, Pooran, Rambarran, and Surajballi—never left. Workers say their spirits still walk the cane fields at night, and the sounds of gunfire echo when no one’s there.
#CreepyCurrent #HorrorCommunity #SupernaturalHorror #Guyana
