At long last, specific details about the upcoming Friday the 13th movie are starting to hit the net, as Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller recently revealed some pretty exciting details about the project. First up, he says it’s not going to be a remake or a sequel to 2009’s remake, but rather an entirely different …
As a hardcore fan of Black Christmas, I am inherently wired to hate Black X-Mas. Why? Because it’s a fucking terrible remake of Black Christmas. But I don’t hate it. In fact, I kind of love it. In last week’s 40th anniversary retrospective of the original Black Christmas, I talked rather extensively about the connections …
We’ve reached the end of another week – thank god! – which means it’s time to once again take a look at the coolest, weirdest and/or most awesome images I’ve stumbled across on the internet this week. So let’s get right to it, shall we?! Entertainment Weekly came up with a pretty fun way of …
The Terminator franchise has been a part of my movie watching journey for as long as I can remember. I watched the original with my dad multiple times back in the glory days of VHS, and I still consider it one of the most perfect movie experiences of my life. T2 arrived seven years later …
The best movie monsters are oftentimes metaphors for real world issues, whether we’re talking about the zombies in George Romero’s films or that big green dude in Godzilla. This year, you can add Mister Babadook to that list, as well as any list that collects together the horror genre’s most memorable icons. Written and directed …
It’s almost always impossible to pinpoint the horror movie that started any given sub-genre, though there are films within each that have more or less had that honor bestowed upon them. Though not the first of its kind, for example, The Blair Witch Project is nevertheless seen as the ‘first’ found footage movie, due mostly …
On May 5th, 2014, a Kickstarter project was successfully funded by individuals all across the world. Red Rover Books had been hoping to raise $65,000 and when the clock reached zero they had pledges totalling $76,254! The money was being used to make the dream of creating a very special book become a reality, and …
When Jurassic Park was released in the summer of 1993 I was seventeen years old and going through what I like to call my “All movies SUCK” teenage phase. My youthful obsession with cinema had faded and even my love for horror had temporarily been put to one side as I embraced the role of …
While it’s a bit too early to write a ‘Best Of 2014’ list, as not everything has come out and I haven’t yet completely caught up on all that this year has had to offer, we are nevertheless approaching the end of the year, which means it’s about time to start looking back. Today, on …
By the time 1984 rolled around, Christmas was well on its way to carving out its own little niche in the horror genre, thanks to films like Black Christmas, To All a Goodnight and Christmas Evil. But it wasn’t until the ’84 holiday season that Santa Claus truly became a horror icon, when Silent Night, …
