Box Office success has very little to do with a film’s actual quality. There are so many factors at play – the release date, the marketing...
As a grown man, one of the last vestiges of my childhood that I latch onto with an enduring intensity is my love of candy. It...
Franchises. As much as we like our smaller, more artistic, horror films we keep returning to the well of the familiar. There’s nothing wrong with that...
As an adult horror fan I have a bit of a stronger stomach than I did as a child. I’m able to parse through images with...
While I really liked Platinum Dunes’ Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th remakes (especially the latter), it’s no secret that their 2010 version of A...
Insidious: Chapter 2 (my review here) cleaned up at the box office this weekend. Not in the expected “it’ll make 20 million” way (which still have...
By Zena S. Dixon. I cannot possibly be the only one who screams at screens when these typical, annoying final girls manage to survive through the...
When the trailer for the RoboCop reboot last week it created a bit of a “stir.” While I was complaining on Twitter, all around good guy...
In case you didn’t notice, the trailer for the RoboCop reboot hit yesterday. While the jury is still out on the film itself, the trailer contains...
By Zena S. Dixon. Many of us have been scrambling around trying to find something to do until October 13th, the close yet so far away...
There’s an old axiom that a horror movie is only as good as its villain. I’m not sure how true this is, since there are many...
With You’re Next in theaters RIGHT NOW I figured I’d take a look back at the Home Invasion sub-genre in order to get everyone in the...
One of the big reasons I’m a huge fan of horror is the grim, dark, distressed atmosphere that many of the films exude. From haunted houses...
While some of you only became familiar with You’re Next a few weeks ago after Lionsgate’s (quite clever) marketing blitz launched, many of you have been...
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with them. While it’s impossible to objectively state that someone is wrong...
By Zena S. Dixon. It’s time to go back to school! Get your pencils ready, dust your books off and lets bring out the horror! Maybe...
Last week I wrote a post called 5 Reasons Gremlins 2 Is A Masterpiece, and I often talk about my love for some of the Friday...
Those of you who read my work on the site know that I’m a huge fan of Gremlins 2: The New Batch. While I won’t go...
By Zena S. Dixon. Sadly, we missed National Kiss Day. It was July 6th. But have no worries! I thought it would be extra awesome if...
Last year I wrote a piece called 5 Horror Films With Amazing Endings. You guys wound up digging it so I did 5 MORE Horror Movies...
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This Is the End. Edgar Wright’s The World’s End. Marc Forster’s World War Z. Paul Middleditch’s Rapture-Palooza. All of these films...
Back in August I visited the set of Screen Gems’ new remake of Stephen King’s Carrie, directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry, Stop Loss). My...
Horror and musicals have, believe it or not, a great deal in common in that both require a complete suspension of disbelief. We know with the...
While I’m not a purist on this (I don’t care if a movie is missing scenes from the trailer if the film itself ends up being...
