Three years ago Blumhouse released Unfriended to raised eyebrows and chuckles. After all, how could a horror film told entirely on one teenage girl’s laptop be any good,...
What makes a great horror film? Is it the number of scares? Or is it how effective the scares are? Is it the performances? Or maybe...
Each month in Horror Queers, queer writers Joe and Trace tackle a horror film with LGBTQ+ elements, a high camp quotient or both. As a genre, horror...
Over the last few days, you may have heard about a film called Hereditary (our review). Ari Aster‘s debut film has been heralded as one of the scariest...
Each month in Horror Queers, queer writers Joe and Trace tackle a horror film with LGBTQ+ elements, a high camp quotient or both. As a genre,...
As far as modern horror franchises go, Insidious is arguably one of the better ones in terms of both quality and scare factor. After bursting on to the...
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* No one said all movies had to be easy to watch. 2017 was a landmark...
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* The Resident Evil film franchise is an interesting creation. Adapted from a 1996 video game, the first...
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* Another year, another plethora of horror films with some truly disturbing moments. One of my...
Horror musicals have never been a hot commodity in the film industry. There is something about a horror musical that just isn’t easy to market to...
How long has it been since we’ve had a good old-fashioned murder mystery on the big screen? Much less one with a star-studded cast like the...
If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw! For seven years, Lionsgate made Halloween even more of an event than it already was for horror fans. From 2004...
For seven years, the Saw franchise was synonymous with Halloween. From 2004 to 2010, a new Saw film was released every Halloween to varying degrees of commercial success. Lionsgate Films...
Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game was released to rave reviews a couple of weeks ago, and I had the opportunity to speak with its producer Trevor...
The last week of September is a busy one for horror fans in Austin, Texas because of Fantastic Fest, a film festival that focuses on screening horror,...
Who doesn’t love a good musical? Well, lots of people, actually. For reasons I will never understand, some people just really hate musicals. I can’t judge...
For 25 years, Stephen King‘s 1992 novel Gerald’s Game was considered unfilmable by nearly every filmmaker. Well, every filmmaker except Mike Flanagan. Flanagan read Gerald’s Game when he was 19 years old, and...
Everyone loves a good haunt. But who are the people behind them? That is one of the questions that Jon Schnitzer’s documentary Haunters: The Art of the...
If Darren Aronofsky’s superb mother! (our review) hadn’t just been released, it would be easy to say that Yorgos Lanthimos‘ (The Lobster, Dogtooth) latest film, The Killing of a Sacred...
Luke Shanahan’s Rabbit is the latest in a long list of films that attempt to explore the connection between twins, which has long been a fascination with...
I’m going to do something I have never done before in any of my reviews, and that is tell you not to read it. I am...
Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Gerald’s Game was released by Netflix last Friday to rave reviews, with many critics calling it one of the best Stephen King...
Stephen King film adaptations are all over the place lately, aren’t they? Things got off to a rough start this year with The Dark Tower but...
Though it could use a good polish, strong performances by a talented cast help Mr. Mercedes overcome some minor pacing issues, making for one good Stephen King...
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