Few genres have the ability to surprise an audience like horror can. Action movies establish a premise and then play that premise out (“Bus can’t slow...
2018 has been another banner year for the horror genre. A Quiet Place cleaned up at the box office to become one of the most successful...
I have been attending Chicago’s Cinepocalypse genre film festival in all of its iterations since it began in 2014, first as The Awesome Fest, which ran...
Clowns are scary. That’s not so much an opinion as it is science fact. Clowns are scary, and that’s why they’ve been featured in so many...
Malicious, the new horror movie from writer/director Michael Winnick, is Insidious shot like The Conjuring. It’s not a James Wan imitation as that sentence suggests, but...
A family gathers at their home for dinner at Christmas time. Daughter is expecting her first baby; Son has brought his new girlfriend. A strange, black,...
Once upon a time, we would describe movies with a certain aesthetic as being “Twilight Zone-y.” Maybe they have a very specific sci-fi/alternate reality premise, or...
The phenomenon of the “fan documentary” has sprung up across the horror genre over the last ten years. Thanks to the success of docs like Never...
Reviewing early films from young filmmakers can sometimes be a daunting task. On the one hand, I want to cut these directors slack to still find...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: there’s something strange going on at a home for young women. An older priest and a younger priest are...
With Full Moon’s Puppet Master series getting a reboot this summer courtesy of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, it seemed like a great idea to revisit...
One of Italy’s greatest contributions to horror is the introduction of the “giallo,” a form of super-stylish murder mystery that became known for its gorgeous aesthetics,...
If you’re a horror fan and you grew up in Chicago, the horror host known as Svengoolie is probably partly responsible for your love of the...
There’s been a lot of talk over the last few weeks about the idea of the “Final Girl” and what it means to the horror genre....
If a horror movie came out in the 1980s, there’s a good chance it got a sequel or two. I’m not just talking about your Friday...
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