Found footage gets a bad rap. After the sleeper success of The Blair Witch Project, which proved just how profitable a micro-budgeted horror film shot in this...
Recent releases like Monstrum and The Wretched continue to prove one thing: horror fans can’t get enough of monsters. Of all the branching sub-genres of horror, one of the...
During the creation process of the original Scooby-Doo show (whose work-in-progress name was Mysteries Five) in the late 1960s, the creative team at Hanna-Barbera experienced rejection...
phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which...
Music is a vital component in film, especially horror. The right score or song heightens the emotional impact, alters the tone, or sets the mood. A...
Phobias are supposed to be irrational, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have some foundation in logic. Whether you’ve got a strong aversion to rats, spiders,...
What even is time anymore? The days and months feel as though they’ve bled into one homogenous mass lately, thanks to the strange timeline we find...
One of horror’s most popular and enduring franchises began as a Halloween copycat. No, really. Producer/Director Sean S. Cunningham sought to capture the same success of Halloween by...
Crafting a perfect scare or a visceral moment of terror isn’t as easy as it may seem. There’s an art form to it, and the best...
Dark Castle Entertainment began with a goal to remake William Castle’s films but quickly evolved to producing original content. Their initial slate of films at the...
This year marks 11 years since the first Paranormal Activity film scared its way onto the horror scene, and there’s no denying how much it shook...
As of Friday, May 1, The Wretched released on VOD. With it, a Rear Window-type tale that sees a teen boy face off against one gruesome, ancient witch hiding...
Sit tight, horror fiends, because a new onslaught of scary movies, TV shows and video games are headed your way in May 2020! There’s no need...
The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different...
While not so much a resurgence, it has been intriguing to see a few iconic slashers make a recent return. Michael Myers emerged from the shadows...
One of the foundational sub-genres of horror is the Slasher, a type of horror film that sees a killer stalk and slay a group of characters....
“What the hell is a Quibi?” That’s the question that’s been most commonly asked about Quibi since the new streaming service was announced, and many are...
The silver lining of a lack of theatrical releases means now is the perfect chance to get rid of any cinematic blind spots. When browsing the...
The transition from childhood into adulthood is rife with hormone-induced turmoil, angst, and growing pains. Like many things in life, puberty lends well to horror. The...
October, 2004. Fifteen plus years ago I had just graduated from high school and was attending my first year of college, where my interest in horror...
One of the foundational sub-genres of horror is the Slasher, a type of horror film that sees a killer stalk and slay a group of characters....
If ever there’s a perfect genre movie to encapsulate that cabin-fever madness many of us are likely feeling about now, it’s Robert Eggers’ sophomore feature The Lighthouse,...
Horror anthologies have been a mainstay of the genre pretty much since the advent of cinema. A collection of bite-sized stories strung together by a framing...
Much like John Carpenter and Halloween II, director James Whale felt he’d explored every possible corner in 1931’s Frankenstein and had no more to say. The huge success of...
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