Fear is subjective, and people watch horror for a variety of reasons. Horror as escapism being a prominent one. The genre offers endless creativity, allowing us...
Summer is typically blockbuster season at the box office, but this year has proven to be anything but typical. The theatrical release calendar might be looking...
Teens tend to feature prominently in horror for a reason. Puberty, onset hormonal shifts, and growing pains -physically and emotionally- make for fertile ground from which...
In horror, teens often tend to be the focal point of the terror. Cinema has long explored puberty, self-identity, hormones, and the turbulent waters of high...
With a title like Shirley and Elisabeth Moss featured as acclaimed horror author Shirley Jackson, the default expectation is that this film would be a period...
After a record-setting premiere season, AMC Networks’ Shudder wasted no time renewing the Creepshow series for a second season. Based on George A. Romero’s classic 1982 anthology...
On June 2nd, the inaugural season of Shudder’s Creepshow is coming home to Digital HD, DVD, and Blu-ray, right in the middle of its six-week airing on...
If there’s one thing horror fans like almost as much as watching horror movies, it’s learning about their favorite movies. There’s no shortage of fantastic horror-themed...
In 2017, Satan’s Slaves topped the list of highest-grossing films in Indonesia. After receiving strong buzz during its festival run, the film found a perfect home on Shudder,...
For the last few years, the most sought after superhero movie has been one that technically didn’t exist: Zack Snyder’s Justice League. During the post-production on...
In its first virtual edition, the Chattanooga Film Festival brought nearly thirty features, dozens of genre shorts, and four full days of packed live events straight...
Thanks to a pandemic that’s ground the world to a halt, most film festivals have been postponed or canceled. The Chattanooga Film Festival found a clever...
Once upon a time, folklore and fairy tales were cautionary tales of violence, bloodshed, and horror. They were graphic stories of cannibalism, murder, and dismemberment nestled...
In 2018, Synapse films released Path of Blood, an animated 17th century-set samurai feature that impressed for its meticulous cut-paper stop-motion. For his sophomore effort, director Eric...
Italian horror auteur Lucio Fulci is one of the most prominent voices to shape horror, both in his native country and on an international scale. Known...
Sometimes the most enduring entries in horror failed to set the box office on fire upon initial release, only finding their audience after and amassing a...
Touted as “this year’s most insane midnighter” by the Chattanooga Film Festival for their virtual edition, you only have to look to the trailer for Skull:...
It Came From the ‘80s is a series that pays homage to the monstrous, deadly, and often slimy creatures that made the ‘80s such a fantastic...
In horror, the higher the body count, the better. We cheer at particularly gruesome and creative demises of characters in genre movies, and it can go...
In an age where Googling the term “body cam” yields endless news articles of police body camera footage revealing excessive violence, it’s not surprising that the...
Found footage gets a bad rap. After the sleeper success of The Blair Witch Project, which proved just how profitable a micro-budgeted horror film shot in this...
Recent releases like Monstrum and The Wretched continue to prove one thing: horror fans can’t get enough of monsters. Of all the branching sub-genres of horror, one of the...
Music is a vital component in film, especially horror. The right score or song heightens the emotional impact, alters the tone, or sets the mood. A...
What even is time anymore? The days and months feel as though they’ve bled into one homogenous mass lately, thanks to the strange timeline we find...
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