[Movies]

Krampus: From Relative Obscurity to Horror Movie Icon

Though a killer Santa first stalked the screen in 1972’s Tales from the Crypt, it was thanks to films like Black Christmas, Christmas Evil and Silent Night, Deadly Night that ‘Christmas horror’ became a bona fide sub-genre. In the decades since their release, holiday figures like elves and gingerbread men have joined Santa as horror

[Bite-sized Horror]

Halloween 2015: My New Favorite Crappy and Cheap Ghostface Mask!

If you were following Halloween Love about 12 months ago you MIGHT have noticed that I posted a few pictures of myself wearing multiple garish, cheap and nasty Ghostface masks. This is simply due to my unexplainable and borderline unhealthy obsession with tracking down any examples that just look weird, stupid or ridiculous. While most

[Bite-sized Horror]

Halloween 2015: Fright-Rags Want You to look Good for the Season of the Witch!

A few weeks ago I made Halloween 3 the focus of our weekly alternative poster art list, and while I was thrilled to see such incredible work paying tribute to this cult masterpiece I remember thinking there really should be more! No movie explores the dark forces that come out to play during Halloween quite

[Something More]

Remembering Wes Craven: Horror’s Greatest Game-Changer

Imagine changing the game, as an artist, once in your life. Now imagine changing it multiple times, in several different decades. One man did that. His name was Wes Craven. It often takes many years, and many movies, for a filmmaker to establish himself on the scene, but Wes Craven cut right to the chase

[TV]

NBC’s Cancellation of Hannibal Was a Blessing in Disguise

When NBC announced back in June that they had cancelled Hannibal, I was one of the many fans who was incredibly bummed out by the news. It’s not that I was surprised, as the writing had been on the wall for some time, but it’s always sad when a show doesn’t get the chance to

[Reviews]

Movie Review: Para Elisa (2012)

For the last few years, a Spanish horror film called Para Elisa has been finding its way back into the spotlight without any means for the mass audiences to see it. Now, thanks to Dark Sky Films, Para Elisa will be hitting DVD and video on demand services on September 1st. The film follows a

[Reviews]

Blood and Moonlight: Let Me Tell You Why I Love Manhunter so Much

Manhunter is one of my earliest memories of watching a film that was FAR too mature in content to be unfolding before my eyes (I think I was about 12-13 years old), but it’s also one of the most perfect examples of my young self being exposed to the sort of quality filmmaking that would