Pages

The new home for June Gloom's archive of media reviews, going back to 2018. Very much a work in progress. Warning that most reviews are various amounts of spoilery. Reviews numbered below 700 are older and edited for clarity.

About the authoress

June Gloom

View my complete profile

Sister blogs

June Gloom 3D: classic shooters and immersive sims
Super June Gloom: personal blog

get new posts by email!

Powered by

Find an old post

Blog Archive

► 2025 (60)
- ► September 2025 (25)
- ► October 2025 (5)
- ► December 2025 (30)

▼ 2026 (170)
- ► January 2026 (11)
- ► February 2026 (6)
- ► March 2026 (35)
- ► April 2026 (60)
- ► May 2026 (7)
- ► June 2026 (5)
- ► July 2026 (6)
- ► August 2026 (29)
- ▼ September 2026 (11)

Labels

USA film video game horror Gothic horror PC UK Japan action period: 1950s theme: demons theme: vampires FPS science fiction drama literature cosmic horror period: early modern Europe sci-fi horror theme: ghosts folk horror period: 19th century platformer Konami period: 1910s period: World War I filing: Franchise Follies psychological horror period: 19th century Europe period: the future survival horror period: 1960s theme: witchcraft 2018 Xbox One period: medieval Europe period: post-war France PlayStation 2 PlayStation 4 Roger Corman action horror period: World War II theme: hell theme: post-apocalypse 2010 Switch external link theme: morality theme: paranoia theme: space war 1999 2001 2004 2013 Xbox 360 expansion pack film noir historical fantasy jidaigeki period: Victorian London period: medieval Japan theme: aliens theme: grief theme: serial killer theme: the occult 1963 2011 2015 2017 Capcom Doom mod Italy PlayStation 3 Sweden Western black & white game mod historical horror id Software immersive sim international noir period: 1900s period: Cold War period: ambiguous search action theme: military too many ports to list 1957 1964 1997 2000 2019 2023 2025 Australia Germany RPG fantasy period: the Old West political thriller theme: abuse theme: amnesia theme: anti-war theme: cults theme: madness theme: mental illness theme: nuclear terror theme: revenge theme: time travel 1958 1960 1961 1962 1973 1993 1994 Famicom/NES Game Boy PlayStation adventure adventure game anime filing: Apocalypse Dreams jRPG mystery neo-noir period: Age of Enlightenment period: Colonial America psychological thriller sci-fi silent film television series theme: Greek mythology theme: corruption theme: eldritch entities theme: innocence theme: monsters theme: pandemic theme: politics theme: racism theme: the Arctic/Antarctic theme: the sea theme: zombies war (genre) 1951 1953 1954 1959 1968 1971 1989 1991 1995 2002 2006 2007 2008 2009 2012 2014 2020 2024 Canada GZDoom Ireland Irrational Games Orson Welles Poland Xbox body horror comedy graphic novel period: Antebellum era period: Bronze Age period: the ancient world religious horror stylish action survival sim theme: cannibalism theme: coming of age theme: crime theme: curses theme: disability theme: guilt theme: haunted house theme: mad science theme: mind control theme: possession theme: religion theme: romance theme: science gone wrong theme: trauma theme: werewolf thriller what the fuck 1819 1871 1946 1950 1966 1987 1988 1996 2005 2016 451 Club AMC ArtPlay Billy Wilder China DS Doomer Boards Frictional Games Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color Guillermo del Toro Hayao Miyazaki Ishirō Honda Jack Arnold Jacques Tourneur John Frankenheimer John Romero Kaneto Shindō Lewis Milestone Mario Bava Mexico Nightdive Studios Nintendo 64 PlayStation 5 Romero Games Sacnoth Stanley Kubrick Studio Ghibli Super Famicom/SNES Taiwan The Farm 51 Xbox Series X/S arthouse horror documentary epistolary novel espionage thriller giallo mobile open world period: 1930s period: 1940s period: American Civil War period: Ancient Greece period: English Civil War period: Korean War period: Regency England period: Renaissance Europe period: early America romance satire slasher special feature stealth sword-and-sandal teen horror theatre theme: Norse mythology theme: ableism theme: alien theme: alienation theme: alt history theme: ambition theme: capitalism theme: classism theme: cognitohazard theme: conspiracy theme: fame theme: feminism theme: identity theme: isolation theme: kaiju theme: magic theme: media theme: multiverse theme: obsession theme: police theme: psychics theme: structural violence theme: the Devil theme: the future war game 1764 1818 1820 1835 1849 1865 1886 1895 1897 1899 1901 1908 1909 1911 1917 1919 1920 1921 1928 1930 1933 1936 1939 1943 1947 1948 1949 1956 1965 1975 1976 1980 1981 1983 1985 1986 1990 2003 2022 2K Czech 3DO Abel Gance Akira Kurosawa Alan Moore Alan Parker Alex Turner Alexander Woo Alfred Hitchcock American McGee Andrew Patterson Antonia Bird Apple II Apple TV+ Arthur Machen Arthur Miller Asobo Studio Attila Futaki Ben Wheatley Bethesda Game Studios Black Widow Games Blackpowder Games Brad Anderson Bram Stoker Brazil Brian de Palma Carl Boese Carl Theodor Dreyer Carol Reed Charles B. Pierce Charles Moore Christian Nyby Christophe Gans Christopher Nolan Christopher Smith Commodore 64 Corin Hardy Curtis Hanson Czech Republic D. Alexander Gregory DLC DYA Games Dalton Trumbo Dan Simmons Daniel Gimmer David F. Sandberg David Kajganich David Lynch Denmark Desmond Davis Don Chaffey Don Sharp Don Siegel Dontnod Doom map Eddie Campbell Elia Kazan Eugenio Martin FROST Development Team Fred Zinnemann FromSoftware Gareth Evans Gaston Leroux Genre Gordon Douglas Gua Guy Endore HBO Half-Life mod Harvey Hart Hideo Kojima High Moon Studios Horace Walpole Howard Hawks Human Head Studios ITV Infogrames Ingmar Bergman Interplay Inti Creates Irvin Yeaworth Jr. J T. Petty J-horror Jack Clayton James Watkins Jasozz Games Jean-Christophe "Pitof" Comar Jeremy Isaacs Jerzy Kawalerowicz Joe D'Amato Joe Fielder John McTiernan John Shirley John William Polidori Jonathan English Jonaya Riley Joseph Conrad Juan Carlos Medina Julie Delpy Justin Fisher Ken Levine Krome Studios Kurt Neumann Leo Scherman Lewis Carroll Lord Byron Lucas Pope LucasArts MAPPA MJ Basset MMO MachineGames Marcos "Sgt_Mark_IV" Abenante Martin Scorsese Mary Shelley Masaki Kobayashi Max Borenstein Mega Drive/Genesis Menton J. Matthews III Michael Chaves Michael Crichton Michael Powell Michael Reeves Midway Games Mikael Hedberg Nautilus NeoBards Nerve Software New Zealand Nicholas Ray Nikolai Gogol Ninja Theory P.J. Pesce PC Engine CD-ROM² PC-98 Paul Leni Paul Wegener Peter Jackson Peter Weir Phil Tucker Philip Kaufman Piers Haggard PlayStation Vita Playstation Portable Quentin Lawrence Rebellion Red Candle Games Red Wasp Design Richard Love Ritual Entertainment Robert Eggers Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Siodmak Robert W. Chambers Robert Wise Roberto Rosselini Rockstar Games Roger Donaldson Rogue Entertainment Roman Polanski Russel Doughten Jr. Russia S. Craig Zahler Samuel Fuller Saturn Scott Fischer Scott Snyder Scott Tuft Sheridan Le Fanu Simon Bucher-Jones Soo Hugh Spain Spicy Horse International Stephen Spielberg Stephen Vincent Benét Storm in a Teacup Studio 3DO Sunao Katabuchi Super Game Boy Team Bondi Team TNT Terence Fisher The Game Kitchen The Laughing Chamber The Spierig Brothers Tom Hanks Tom Waltz US Ukraine Veddge Victor Sjöström Washington Irving William Castle William Harrison Ainsworth William Hope Hodgson William Shakespeare Wolf Rilla XXv Productions animation anthologoy film arcade author's notes biopic biopunk children's literature comic dark fantasy direct to video disability film erotic horror filing: Bad Future filing: Yesterday's Tomorrows ghosts historical drama historical epic hunting inXile Entertainment isekai liminal horror multiplayer mythological horror naturalistic horror period: 10th century period: 14th century period: 1920s period: 700s period: Edwardian Era period: Mexican Revolution period: Napoleonic era period: Taiwanese White Terror period: Viking age period: interwar period period: multiple time periods period: near future period: post-war Japan period: present day point and click remake run and gun standalone mod stop-motion animation straight to video supplemental material tactical RPG thechineseroom theme: film industry theme: AI theme: Christmas theme: Egyptian mythology theme: Franco-Prussian War theme: LGBTQ theme: Satan theme: Second French Revolution theme: aging theme: artificial intelligence theme: assassination theme: colonialism theme: dreams theme: evil twin theme: existentialism theme: fascism theme: fatalism theme: film industry theme: fishmen theme: gender and gender roles theme: geopolitics theme: ghost theme: gorgon theme: hostile wilderness theme: hubris theme: imagination theme: loyalty theme: murder theme: nationalism theme: nature gone berserk theme: nostalgia theme: nuclear disaster theme: parasites theme: psychopath theme: quarantine theme: redemption theme: robots theme: slavery theme: slice of life theme: teleportation theme: television theme: the Cold War theme: the Holocaust theme: the fungus among us theme: voodoo theme: winter theme: worker's rights theme: xenophobia theme: yokai total conversion urban fantasy

Report Abuse

2025-2026 June Gloom. positively no AI was used in the creation of any of this blog's content.. Powered by Blogger.

Pages

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

#761: The Haunting

The Haunting

Robert Wise
Initial release: August 25, 1963 (Japan)

Sunday, April 12, 2026

#746: House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill

William Castle

Monday, March 23, 2026

#734: Killing Time

Killing Time

Studio 3DO (3DO), Logicware (PC), Night Dive (Resurrected)

>>> READ MORE >>>

get new posts by email!

Pages

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

#761: The Haunting

The Haunting

Robert WiseInitial release: August 25, 1963 (Japan)

Sunday, April 12, 2026

#746: House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill

William Castle

Monday, March 23, 2026

#734: Killing Time

Killing Time

Studio 3DO (3DO), Logicware (PC), Night Dive (Resurrected)

>>> READ MORE >>>

Robert Wise
Initial release: August 25, 1963 (Japan)