From the first frames, The Mute declares itself as a stunning showcase of experiential horror that’s guaranteed to be divisive. The film opens in first-person, through...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects...
Sex and horror go hand in hand, especially in the slasher subgenre. But sex usually means death, or its used as a weapon, and sexual awakenings...
Of all the many subgenres of horror, one of the most popular and well-loved is the slasher. Between the proto-slashers of the ‘60s, giallo films, and...
The standard slasher movie involves a group of teens getting stalked and dispatched by a masked maniac. Sometimes, those teens might be college co-eds. Far less...
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark,...
Horror and comedy pair together as well as peanut butter and jelly. They’re perfect complements. It makes sense, considering there’s a similar approach of buildup and...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects...
Opening text reveals the inspiration behind this “based on true events” tale; the gold rush of the 1850s brought an influx of prospectors to the Yosemite...
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark,...
Out of FrightFest last year, our own Dax Ebaben gave a resounding approval of the latest horror thriller by director Jon Knautz and stated it’s, “a...
At the Overlook Film Festival this year, two films centered around the concept of an imaginary friend gone wrong; Daniel Isn’t Real and Z. Though both...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects...
The third annual Overlook Film Festival has wrapped up in New Orleans, Louisiana, bringing to a close another year of genre films, immersive experiences, virtual reality...
One of the most exciting aspects of genre film is its ability to reinvent itself no matter how stale the trope or subgenre. All it takes...
A shining example of why pizza delivery workers deserve that tip money, Satanic Panic follows a young 20-something girl with barely five bucks to her name...
There’s something about summer that makes it perfect for reading. Maybe it’s the summer breaks, the vacations, and laying by the pool or beach that just...
Just as the title NOS4A2 suggests, this series and the novel its based on features a great evil in the form a vampire. But this particular...
Writer/director Jim Jarmusch dusts off the old bones of George A. Romero’s zombie classic Night of the Living Dead and gives it his own spin by...
Author Joe Hill’s third novel, NOS4A2, is a massive, sprawling story that spans decades as it weaves together the journeys of plucky antihero Vic McQueen and...
Leave it to James Cameron to bring an unparalleled level of ambition to any of his projects. Ridley Scott’s Alien was a major hit and ushered...
Joe Hill’s sprawling epic that pits superpowered heroine Vic McQueen against the chillingly superpowered Charlie Manx hit shelves six years ago, in a novel that he’d...
Ridley Scott’s Alien crash landed in theaters 40 years ago, on May 25, 1979, creating a massive cultural impact in both horror and cinema, and it...
Compared to the grand spectacle style of practical effects and tragedy of The Fly, the demented surrealism of Videodrome, or even the sleazy, viral aspect of...
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