Pennywise is going to make a new friend this September when Bloody Disgusting and Doppelgänger Releasing (the genre label of arthouse distributor Music Box Films) unleash...
Orion Classics announced today that they’ll be releasing Bridey Elliott‘s indie Clara’s Ghost in limited theaters December 6, 2018, with all VOD platforms receiving the film...
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...
The second annual Cinepocalypse Film Festival has come to a wrap here in Chicago and one of the highlights were a series of wonderful bumpers created by Christopher Michael...
The Music Box Theatre has announced the juried winners of the 2018 edition of Cinepocalypse. As the festival wraps today, it is also immensely proud to...
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...
The Russian Bride opens with a beautiful, retro title card featuring bright red script, paired with an eerie violin score, setting the tone for a cinematic...
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...
As many have learned over the past few years, Hollywood is a cesspool of vile and disgusting people. It’s hard to navigate around because a bike...
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...
Director Stephen Hopkins dropped this fun little nugget at the Q+A following the 25th-anniversary screening of his Judgment Night at the ongoing Cinepocalypse film festival here in...
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...
In addition to bringing Stephen Hopkins in for a 25th-anniversary screening of Judgment Night, the Cinepocalypse Film Festival hosted director Ernest Dickerson, who would receive a Lifetime Achievement...
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...
Blumhouse has given Cinepocalypse the World Premiere of Boogeyman Pop, which takes place tonight at the Music Box Theater in Chicago at 10:15pm (get tickets here). We’ve...
Hailing out of Ireland, director Aislinn Clarke will see The Devil’s Doorway have its Midwest Premiere at the forthcoming Cinepocalypse here in Chicago on Friday, June 22nd (get...
Orion Classics has picked up the North American and Latin American rights to Bridey Elliott’s Sundance drama Clara’s Ghost, reports THR. The film is set to...
The Music Box Theatre is once again bringing the Cinepocalypse Film Festival to Chicago from June 21 – 28th where Bloody Disgusting is a premier sponsor. Yesterday, we told...
This past weekend, technology got ugly with Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade. Harking back to films like RoboCop, the film takes futuristic tech and put a crooked, broken,...
The Cinepocalypse team (including myself!) have programmed the living shit out of next month’s genre festival that will take place June 21-28 at the famous Music...
It was just announced that Orion Classics is relaunching with the post-apocalyptic thriller The Domestics on June 28 in theaters, followed by a video on demand...
Chicago’s Music Box Theatre announced today that director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Deliver Us From Evil) and screenwriter C. Robert...
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