Teeth are hard, calcified structures in the mouth that are essential for breaking down food through chewing, forming words for speech, and maintaining overall oral health. They are also dreadful sources of pain, an object for torture and things that can get smashed out of your skull in a bloody instant. One starry friday night, a night of icy gusts of wind and of gerenal unrest in the populus, the Rookies at the Horror Rookie Academy decided to dive into the topic of dental horror: the portrayal of teeth in horror films. We decided to limit the topic to mainly human teeth, but since the sphere of horror is a transcendant and messy one, we of course welcomed other types of teeth in horror as well. Tusks, for example. Or simply messed up tooth-related stuff. The films listed below either centers around the topic of teeth or has predominant scenes portraying teeth in them. It is a creepy collection of films, this. Films that make your molars ice and throb just by th...
Krampus is a mythological figure in the folklore of Central Europe, especially in the Alps (Austria, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia and South Tyrol). He is traditionally a figure who punishes disobedient and naughty children at Christmas time, in contrast to St. Nicholas (who is the equivalent of Santa Claus), who rewards the good with gifts. His name probably comes from the German word "krampen", meaning claw. Krampus appears on the evening of December 5, known as Krampusnacht (Krampus Night), the night before St. Nicholas' Day. Krampus is usually described as a devil or monster-like figure, often half goat and half demon. He usually has large buck horns, a fur-covered body (often made of goat or sheepskin), claws, a long tongue, and a hoof on one or both feet. On Krampusnacht 2025, as ominous gusts of wind carried supercooled rain across Scandinavia, the rookies at the Horror Rookie Academy decided to flock together. They dug into th...