In 2013, Hannibal Lecter became scary again. Mind you, the witty epicurean with a taste for human flesh had been terrifying long before — in Thomas...
New Line Cinema descended Wednesday night to San Diego Comic-Con with their second annual ScareDiego event, to present our newest nightmares. James Wan, mastermind behind The...
About a month ago the Portland Horror Film Festival returned to Portland’s historic Hollywood Theatre for their biggest festival yet. The festival is the brainchild of...
The Fantasia International Film Festival is a three-week long celebration of international genre cinema centered in the heart of Montreal. Celebrating its 22nd year, it started...
There are so many ways that Unfriended could have gone wrong. Ahead of the film’s 2015 release, it was reasonable to predict that Leo Gabriadze’s micro-budget...
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,...
Some horror movies opt to lull viewers into a sense of comfort or complacency before ripping the rug out from under them; films like Alien, Rosemary’s...
Stephen King is a state of mind. The author has written nearly 60 novels, a half-dozen non-fiction books and hundreds of short stories. In doing so,...
From the moment we meet Ted (Stu Charno) in Friday the 13th Part 2, it’s clear that he’s the character tasked with being the film’s comic relief....
The final Friday the 13th of 2018 is here, and you can count on at least one cable channel to air a Friday the 13th marathon...
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...
2018 has been strong for horror, but some of the year’s most disturbing moments have been found in this dystopian Hulu series, not the cinema. “Few...
In Netflix’s “GLOW,“ which just premiered its second season at the tail end of June, Marc Maron plays the character Sam Sylvia, an ornery but good-hearted...
Each month in Horror Queers, Joe and Trace tackle a horror film with LGBTQ+ themes, a high camp quotient or both. For lifelong queer horror fans...
“You think that when you die, you go to Heaven. You come to us!” Chances are your opinion and ranking of the Phantasm franchise depends on...
The amount of video game, movie, and pop culture references in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is dizzying. From opening to closing credits, the film is...
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...
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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 franchises never truly die. Many can lay dormant for years or even decades, but horror fans have a rare enduring love for their favorite creations...
This October brings the iconic mask of Michael Myers full circle, as Oscar-winning effects artist Christopher Nelson meticulously designed the new mask to look like the...
Regardless of your thoughts on the Jurassic franchise’s resurgence, it’s quite clear at this point that dinosaurs make for some sweet box-office numbers. Including Fallen Kingdom,...
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...
There are very few horror movies that revolve around America’s most patriotic of holidays. Of course, there’s Jaws, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer,...
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