Family gatherings can be murder. Even worse if you are not a member of the immediate family. As we head into this year’s holiday season, I...
For over fifty years, Francis Ford Coppola has been a towering, and often controversial, figure in American Cinema. His filmography is one of the most legendary...
Every horror fan has their blind spots, those subgenres or movements in movies that they just haven’t gotten around to for whatever reason. The two biggest...
The horror films of the 1950s are often relegated to two categories: space invaders and giant bugs. There is some truth in that generalization, but the...
I am rarely affected by celebrity deaths, but when it was revealed that Wes Craven had passed away on August 30, 2015, weeks after his 76th...
Fritz Lang’s M is the greatest serial killer movie ever made. Of course, there have been dozens, even hundreds, of films on the subject with various...
By the 1950s, the Universal Monsters had become a punchline with most of them ending their onscreen careers meeting Abbott and Costello. Many of them had...
When the news of Roger Corman’s passing was announced, the online film community immediately responded with a flood of tributes to a legend. Many began with...
Home invasion has been a part of horror movies practically from the beginning. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), Dracula, and Frankenstein (1931) all...
In December of 1973, two movies that would change the face of horror and the ways it dealt with religion and spirituality were released. One was...
Soon after the New Hollywood generation took over the entertainment industry, they started having children. And more than any filmmakers that came before—they were terrified. Rosemary’s...
1939 is often called Hollywood’s Greatest Year, and it is indisputable that a huge number of America’s greatest classics were produced in that single year. A...
In 2019, the documentary of 80s horror In Search of Darkness became an instant hit with horror fans. Now, a beautiful coffee table style companion book...
In the 1930s, Universal laid claim to the two biggest horror stars of the era, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and it was only a matter...
Every town seems to have that one house. The one that children walk by with hushed tones and dare each other to sneak onto the porch...
“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” -B.R. Haydon Love and death are the two most powerful forces in...
I was a kid just as the drive-in craze was coming to a close. I can recall packing into our giant boat of a Chrysler station...
It all began with the sound of thundering footsteps and a now-iconic roar before giving way to Akira Ifukube’s equally iconic music. Japanese cinema and monster...
Like most movies, The Invisible Man travelled a long and winding road to the silver screen, and perhaps longer and more winding than most. As biographer...
“Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within…and whatever walked there, walked alone.” – Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House...
One of the great unsung traditions of horror is a character’s external environment reflecting their internal state. It has found its way into films as diverse...
The Exorcist rocked the world 50 years ago and horror has never been the same since. It shocked audiences with its unflinching portrayals of disturbing medical...
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds has become such an acknowledged classic and even cultural touchstone that it is easy to forget how revolutionary it was upon its...
Every generation gets the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie it deserves. To date, there have been four official adaptations of Jack Finney’s 1954 novel The...
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