In 1984, a horror icon was born by the name of Freddy Krueger, in Wes Craven’s landmark horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Key to...
If you’ve ever found yourself watching some stuffy costume drama or family-friendly adventure movie and thought to yourself, gee, this film sure could use a few...
Whether you were the one being the bullied or the one doing the bullying, all of us have at one point or another come face to...
Originally published on October 25, 2010. Of all the slasher franchises that have sprung up over the last 30 years, I find that I have the...
For every Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers, there are countless cinematic bugbears who remain frustratingly overlooked by mainstream audiences. As horror fans know, this has nothing...
The thing about revisiting jump scares is, they’re just never quite as effective the second (or third, or fourth, or ninetieth) time around. So when putting...
One day before the Christmas release of director Chris Gorak’s The Darkest Hour, we bring you the third and final chapter in Chris Eggertsen’s report from...
I arrived in Detroit to find it a ghost town. A major American city, emptied of people, skeletal skyscrapers jutting blankly against the callous sky. I...
Back in September 2010, Chris Eggertsen took a trip to Moscow to visit the set of Fox’s upcoming sci-fi film The Darkest Hour. Releasing on Christmas...
Director Rod Lurie has taken on an incredible challenge in remaking the 1971 Sam Peckinpah classic Straw Dogs, particularly when it comes to living up to...
From Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep to 2006’s notorious Wicker Man remake, low-budget “scream queen” Christa Campbell has certainly appeared in her share of horror films...
Currently playing on VOD, SundanceNOW.com and premiering in limited theaters (NY and LA) starting September 9th, John Landis’ dark comedy Burke & Hare tells the story...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…again, this weekend brings Shark Night 3D, director David Ellis’ contribution to the underwater...
Premiering tonight on MTV, Death Valley is a new mockumentary series that follows a group of officers working for the Undead Task Force (UTF), a law...
Scheduled for release on January 20th, Underworld: Awakening is the upcoming fourth entry in the successful action/horror franchise that has so far grossed nearly $300 million...
Coming out this Friday, August 19th, Dreamworks’ Fright Night 3D is a Craig Gillespie-directed remake of the hit 1985 vampire flick about a high school boy...
Coming out this Friday, New Line’s Final Destination 5 (official website) is the latest sequel in the horror franchise that with every entry sees a new...
Just hopped off the phone with John Landis about his new black comedy film Burke & Hare (coming out September 9th), and near the end of...
Recently pushed from its original August release date to December 25, Summit Entertainment’s The Darkest Hour is a 3D alien invasion movie that takes place against...
First coming to international prominence with his bizarrely gruesome 2002 satire Suicide Club, prolific Japanese director Shion Sono has helmed a dozen more films since then,...
Way, way back in September 2010, one unbelievably lucky B-D reporter (holla!) was drugged, tossed on a plane against his will and flown out to the...
At Comic Con to represent his upcoming independent horror/comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil over the weekend, first-time feature director Eli Craig took a moment to...
Amid the insanity drummed up by all the higher-profile projects at Comic Con this year, one of the more under-the-radar events at the convention this past...
At Comic-Con this weekend I had an opportunity to briefly sit down with director Chris Gorak, who made a splash at Sundance in 2006 with the...