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...
“Kill her, Mommy!” Horror’s relationship with motherhood is vast. There’s no shortage of films that explore the complex fears of being a mother. From terrifying mothers...
One of horror’s most popular and enduring franchises began as a Halloween copycat. No, really. Producer/Director Sean S. Cunningham sought to capture the same success of Halloween by...
Crafting a perfect scare or a visceral moment of terror isn’t as easy as it may seem. There’s an art form to it, and the best...
Dark Castle Entertainment began with a goal to remake William Castle’s films but quickly evolved to producing original content. Their initial slate of films at the...
Netflix can be the absolute worst when it comes to acquiring international titles and quietly releasing them without any fanfare, let alone decent placement on their...
Writer/director Issa López’s horror fantasy Tigers Are Not Afraid releases today on DVD and DVD/Blu-ray SteelBook. It comes packed with special features. If you snag the SteelBook, it...
As of Friday, May 1, The Wretched released on VOD. With it, a Rear Window-type tale that sees a teen boy face off against one gruesome, ancient witch hiding...
Teenager Ben (John-Paul Howard) is still adapting to his parents’ recent split, making a summer visit with his dad in a small coastal town a bit...
A casual Google search of the words “scary imaginary friends” results in numerous articles featuring terrified parents recounting real-life horror stories involving their child’s imaginary friend....
“The power of cinema is in the strange and inexplicable.” – Nobuhiko Obayashi Steven Spielberg’s Jaws created a defining moment in cinematic history on a worldwide scale....
One of the foundational sub-genres of horror is the Slasher, a type of horror film that sees a killer stalk and slay a group of characters....
Butcher Block is a monthly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, we will explore the dark, the...
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