The feature debut of both screenwriter Eric Red (Bad Moon, Near Dark) and director Robert Harmon withstands time for many reasons. The road thriller offers exhilarating action sequences, an intense...
With an arctic blast serving as an icy reminder that winter isn’t over yet, now is usually the time where we start longing for warmer, sunnier...
Sick of love? Consider this the Anti-Valentine’s Day round-up of horror movies guaranteed to put you off romance for a while. The lovesick characters featured here...
Thanks to the trendy Five Nights at Freddy’s video game series, “children-themed animatronics running amok” is slowly developing its own subgenre of horror. The latest to borrow...
The success of John Carpenter’s Halloween, which drew inspiration from Black Christmas, ignited a massive slasher craze from 1978-1984. Both foundational slashers still hold high regard today, so...
Nickelodeon’s revival of their popular ‘90s horror anthology series retooled how the Midnight Society submitted tales of terror for approval, luring in a new generation of...
CBS’s Clarice once again places fledgling FBI agent Clarice Starling in the driver’s seat, picking up one year after the events of Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs....
Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, and love is in the air. We’re theming this week’s streaming picks accordingly, because nothing captures our hearts quite like...
Actor Hal Holbrook carved out an impressive and prolific career in television, theater, and film that spanned more than half-a-century. The Emmy and Tony-award winning actor...
It’s only February, and it’s already clear that 2021 will be loaded with horror content. That extends to books, too. Beyond streaming, VOD, and theatrical releases,...
Midnight movie sendup Popcorn bears all the hallmarks of an ’80s horror movie. Fueled by nostalgia, the slasher features haunting vignettes, films within movies, a melodramatic killer, and...
Horror pairs well with any genre. Horror comedies, horror westerns, horror romance; well, you get the gist. However, in terms of maximum chills or creativity, the...
Scientist and playwright Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, published in 1666, marked the first science fiction work by a female. It chronicled a woman’s adventures in an...
In a pre-screening introduction to the Sundance world premiere with director Sion Sono, the prolific filmmaker revealed that his first English-language film wasn’t initially meant to be...
James Ashcroft’s feature directorial debut wastes no time at all cutting right to the dark heart of his grim, jaw-dropping morality thriller. Just enough time is...
Universal Horror’s The Wolf Man popularized gypsy cursed werewolf lore, but lycanthropy horror has deviated from that mythology significantly in the decades since. Writer/Director Sean Ellis revisits the...
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a seminal horror classic, notoriously made people afraid to go into the water. The blockbuster’s live shark sequences were filmed by legendary marine pioneer...
Cinema has a long history with bad seeds or sociopathic children with a vicious streak. The archetype boasts no shortage of iconic children with corrupted innocence,...
Writer/Director Ben Wheatley is one of the more unpredictable filmmakers currently working. His output tends to lean toward commercially friendly fare, like Rebecca or even High Rise, or it...
Horror excels at capturing the paranoia and claustrophobic terror of gaslighting. Protagonists struggle to trust their instincts and become unreliable narrators in the viewer’s eyes while...
Netflix’s latest true-crime series, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, chronicles the heinous crimes and search for Richard Ramirez, a serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles...
The VHS boom of the early ’80s led to the widespread distribution of horror and exploitation films that were released uncensored both in footage and marketing,...
It’s been quite the journey for Rose Glass‘s feature debut. After a highly successful and buzz-worthy festival run, her psychological, religious horror film was scheduled for U.S....
Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves, both a prequel and update to the 1981 Indonesian horror film, made international waves thanks to its potent chills and atmosphere. Anwar tackles...
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