Filmmaking, by nature, is driven by creators seeking inspiration from prior works. You wouldn’t have Kill Bill without Lady Snowblood, but Lady Snowblood wouldn’t exist without...
The artistry behind the best erotic horror-thrillers is not to be devalued. While movies like The Boy Next Door or The Handmaiden strive to maintain a...
Roughly two weeks ago, horror fans were given a long-overdue reason to celebrate. It was announced that, after a lengthy period of silence, we’re FINALLY getting...
Are 2000s horror remakes as bad as their Rotten Tomatoes scores suggest? Dark Castle Entertainment’s unfairly maligned Thir13en Ghosts sits at a 9%; Platinum Dunes’ fantastic...
Wes Craven‘s The Hills Have Eyes is a seminal “Sunny Scary” horror flick renowned for its cannibalistic hilltop clan, but it certainly presents as one of...
If you’ve read my ongoing analyses of horror remakes on Bloody Disgusting over the years, you know that, as much as possible, I try to stay...
In 2004, two Aussie filmmakers not only took Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival by storm, but the horror industry at large. That year, James Wan and...
The tale of Two Thousand Maniacs! and its remake, 2001 Maniacs, is a lesson in what makes for compelling exploitation motivations. Herschell Gordon Lewis’ beloved 1960s...
Tom Holland‘s Fright Night has cemented itself as a crucial pillar in ’80s vampire canon. There’s an embrace of bloodsucker mythologies in addition to cheeky commentaries...
Upon reflection, Poltergeist (2015) marks the whimpering deflation of multiple horror genre eras. The 2000s transitioned into the 2010s with a surge of high-profile remakes like...
Graciously, Bloody Disgusting has allowed me to write over 40 entries for my “Revenge of the Remakes” column. I’ve hit plenty of popular franchises and mainstream...
Would my horror journalist accreditation be revoked if I didn’t leap at the chance to rank Warner Brothers’ Conjuring Universe (“Conjurverse,” to me) with the final...
Dennis Donnelly’s The Toolbox Murders (1978) feels like it wants to be Los Angeles’ The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The film shares traits with slashers of...
Why aren’t there more restaurant-set horror films? The Menu is a psychological sizzler, and Blood Diner fits the bill, but the format still feels surprisingly underutilized....
The mark of any great studio or prolific filmmaker is the voices they uplift. James Wan handed the keys over to multiple Conjurverse filmmakers, Jordan Peele...
Remake discussions regularly revolve around the same examples. Mainstream titles that stand as milestone examples of remake eras. The Fly (goopy 1980s remakes). The Ring (the...
“Terror is a place.” That ambiguous tagline for Joseph Sims-Dennett’s The Banished reflects the film’s imprecise and ungraspable attempt at woodland horrors. Think Sator, The Interior,...
Obnoxious online celebrities must fight for their lives while the entire world watches in Skillhouse, yet the in-universe fanfare is unbelievable. Josh Stolberg writes and directs,...
Alfred Hitchcock’s influence over the horror genre is towering. “Hitchcockian” is one of the few namesake descriptors used to describe (typically lesser) copycats. Film courses teach...
Apologies for the unexpected Revenge of the Remakes hiatus. Life be life’in, as someone probably says. It’s been almost nine months since we rode Dick Mass’...
With the upcoming animated anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers, Dan Trachtenberg imagines how Yautja warriors would fare against earthly rivals from different warfare eras. Exciting, right?...
Overnight, Dan Trachtenberg became the Predator whisperer. His Comanche action-horror prequel Prey breathed life into the uneven franchise, and its success opened the door to pitch...
James Ashcroft’s tyrannical elder care horror tale carries a psychological sting. The New Zealand filmmaker adapts Kiwi writer Owen Marshall a second time after his debut...
While horror remakes are inevitable, its rare that international filmmakers are hired to helm American remakes of their originals. Even fewer filmmakers get to make not...
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