‘Below’ Reels In a Winner With Its Small-Town Sea Creature Saga [Season Review]

‘Below’ Reels In a Winner With Its Small-Town Sea Creature Saga [Season Review]

October 8, 2026 Dread Central

“Here’s to the great unknown and us fools chasing it.”

Coastal horror is a foreboding subgenre that’s having a bit of a renaissance at the moment. It’s territory that feeds into intense feelings of isolation, decay, and folkloric myths that attempt to rationalize the illogical. Sea monsters are not a requirement of coastal horror, but there have been some...