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Frights & Fables: Tide of the Dead

It’s peak Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale. The beach is packed, the music is loud, and thousands of college kids and tourists are living it up without a care in the world.

Miles offshore, a luxury cruise liner is caught in a bizarre, boiling storm. Lightning hammers the ship as it slips beneath the waves, killing everyone aboard in an instant. But the dead do not stay dead. Under the water, they change.

52 Weeks: Where Your Eyes Don’t See

The film wastes very little time in pleasantries. Characters are introduced with impressive efficiency, the essential terrain of the story laid down swiftly and without ceremony, and before one has quite settled into one’s chair, the machinery is already in motion. A kidnapping scheme gone magnificently, catastrophically wrong. A luxurious London townhouse transformed into a pressure cooker.

Tactical Tuesdays: Zombi-Proof? Huh What?

In the world of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), survival horror is a genre that thrives on tension, resourcefulness, and the ever-present threat of danger. Whether you’re dodging zombies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, fending off primitive lizard people in a land of dinosaurs, or battling some other pulp-inspired menace, the concept of a fortified homestead is a staple of survival horror storytelling.