Let’s cut straight to the chase: The Boy Behind the Door is a genuinely dark thriller. Harrowingly dark. More than just putting its child protagonists in constant peril,...
Within the last five or so years, director/producer Jill Gevargizian has been hard at work, releasing an impressive number of short films. Of them all, it...
In the age of streaming, where endless streaming services put countless horror titles at your fingertips, choosing what to watch can be overwhelming. That’s the entire...
Sure, the entire live-action Jurassic Park franchise is PG-13, but its sequences of dinosaur thrills and kills might be a bit too intense for younger audiences. Enter Jurassic World:...
Rape and revenge films, by nature, offer one of the most uncomfortable and extreme subgenres of horror. They tend to follow a distinct formula that plays...
Despite the massive success of The Exorcist and the precedent that it set, possession horror isn’t solely about demons, crises of faith, and exorcisms. At its most...
John Carpenter’s Halloween triggered the start of the massive trend of slashers from 1978-1984, dubbed the Golden Age of Slashers, the vast bulk of which adhered to a...
Author Donald Ray Pollock‘s works have been referred to as “Hillbilly Gothic” or “Southern Ohio Gothic.” His debut novel, The Devil All the Time, earned accolades and...
Before the digital age and the internet, as we know it, dating services connected hopefuls through video dating in the early ‘90s. To say it was...
In The Babysitter, bullied twelve-year-old Cole Johnson (Judah Lewis) bonds with his cool babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving), but their fun goes awry when he witnesses a Satanic...
With the inaugural season of Lovecraft Country well underway and Color Out of Space now available on Shudder, the Year of Lovecraft remains in full swing. H.P. Lovecraft‘s works...
Compared to most subgenres in horror, folk horror isn’t as easy to classify. It’s agreed that The Wicker Man, The Witchfinder General, and The Blood on Satan’s Claw...
Spooky season is finally here! That means time to put out the Halloween décor, plan your holiday watchlists, and curl up with a good book. Nothing...
The Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network continues to grow, and the newest member of the family is The Bloody Disgusting Podcast! The Bloody Disgusting Podcast is a weekly...
Of all the subgenres of horror, home invasion thrillers tend to rank among the highest on the fear scale because they hit too close to reality...
With Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott explored heady concepts of creation and religion through the eyes of an android longing to understand humanity. Executive producer Scott now...
It can be too easy to write off a sequel. Often considered a quick attempt to ride the wave of its predecessor’s success, the consensus is...
While we live in the present, we should always look to the past to understand change and development, moral contemplation, and how we can learn from...
Over ten years ago, Bryan Bertino made waves with his bleak debut, The Strangers, which set a high bar for home invasion horror. His subsequent films confirmed...
From atomic monsters to “nature attacks” features, horror has long explored humankind’s effect on the environment. As natural disasters seem to be on the upswing, it’s...
The inaugural season of Amazon’s hyper-violent series The Boys ended with some major reveals and open-ended questions. Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) discovered his wife Becca (Shantel VanSanten)...
More often than not, there’s safety in numbers. Being alone can make you vulnerable to predators, human or otherwise. If you’re female, traveling alone at night...
In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, plucky teens Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) traveled through time to ensure they passed their history class. They were...
Charlie Kaufman is a celebrated filmmaker who has built a reputation for using surreal and metaphysical frameworks to explore very human themes of mortality, identity, and...
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