paranoia Archives - Desperate Living

In these uncertain times, is it too much to ask that our news media stop terrorising the public for profit and clout?

The 1978 collision of science fiction, body horror and conspiracy thriller is as potent an experience now as it ever was.

There’s a certain logic to most of our fears and phobias, no matter how irrational they might be. But clowns? Really?

Exploring the conspiracy-driven world of QAnon and the new book that explores the birth and development of the movement.

Our crime cinema retrospective continues with a look at one of the most impressive and paranoid thrillers of the 1950s.

Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, and the Richard Matheson short story that it is based on, remain masterclasses in paranoid terror.

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