Only one film franchise about killer dinosaurs became successful and popular in the 1990s, and it most certainly was not Carnosaur. Back then, the timing seemed...
There are many things to expect when expecting, but a blood-craving baby isn’t one of them. Nevertheless, 2009’s Grace imagines that possibility, and the outcome is...
When they first set out to make 2009’s Macabre, the Mo Brothers — collectively Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel — had one objective in mind: For...
Vampires’ vulnerabilities will often leave them, along with their stories, restricted to a single location. However, J. S. Cardone’s The Forsaken is not quite like other...
While horror makes wild claims of “based on a true story” from time to time, not every instance seen in the genre is a gimmick formed...
When Gary Brandner finally cast the monster from his mind, and then onto paper, he gave it a familiar form. By that time, werewolves weren’t uncommon...
In the years leading up to 1982’s Murder by Phone, telephones had mostly been used as a portent in horror — that first tangible sign of...
The opening of 1979’s When a Stranger Calls features twenty of the most potent minutes in horror. From an unassuming heroine whose tenable performance lingers, to...
World Rat Day, which falls on the Fourth of April, hopes to dispel the myths surrounding these common and misunderstood rodents. Meanwhile, John Lafia’s The Rats...
While 1928’s Steamboat Willie is the clear inspiration for Screamboat, Steven LaMorte’s movie also feels in the spirit of another vintage Walt Disney short: The Mad...
If houses could talk, the one in David Fincher’s Panic Room would have both plenty and very little to say about the Altmans. In this 2002...
It was in 1985 that the Care Bears had their first big-screen adventure. Those colorful, fuzzy do-gooders had already made the move to television, after previously...
The early 2000s saw a brief but exciting wave of new Tremors media. After the film side seemingly became dormant, following the 1996 sequel to the...
Unlike the average offering of found-footage filmmaking, Joel Anderson’s debut Lake Mungo limits the amateur aesthetic now deemed a signature of this genre. The characters aren’t...
Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilating their feet so they can fit into slippers, a heartbroken mermaid taking her own life, Red Riding Hood unknowingly cannibalizing her grandmother —...
Brian Trenchard-Smith, the British-Australian director of such Ozploitation classics as Turkey Shoot and Dead End Drive-In, eventually made the big move to Hollywood in the early...
While the average anthology series doesn’t require a proper conclusion to tie up loose ends, it only seemed fitting for the third and most recent revival...
Star gazing is unavoidable whenever watching Tales from the Crypt. In this beloved anthology series, you typically find actors who were in the early days of...
The 1981 film Love Massacre (Ai Sha) was a jarring shift in genre for Patrick Tam. After making his directorial debut with wuxia outing The Sword,...
At a quick glance, the 2013 film Crush looks to be a rehash of the Alicia Silverstone-starring thriller The Crush, except now with a teenager on...
By now everyone should know The Ring (2002) is a remake of Ring (1998). Less known is the fact that Hideo Nakata’s momentous film was not...
The summer of 2001 was a rather dry season for the horror genre, at least on the big screen. So, insatiable fans such as myself had...
It was somewhere around the mid-1990s when animal horror came back into style. Not since the first cinema cycles of ecological and natural horror, specifically the...
The movie Virus did not officially scuttle across screens until 1999, but its biomechanical horrors first sprang to life a bit earlier. The road to screen...
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