Horror-themed television programming is all the rage right now, with shows like The Walking Dead, Hannibal, Bates Motel and American Horror Story paving the way for many more in the near future, including small screen adaptations of The People Under the Stairs, The Evil Dead and Scream, as well as brand new original shows like …
So many horror movies come out every single week that it’s impossible to watch them all, forcing you to pick and choose which ones to spend a little time with. Oftentimes that decision is based on internet praise, though sometimes it’s simply a matter of who directed a given film. When it comes to this …
The year was 1990 and a TV mini-series was about to be released that would change the way many of us look at clowns forever. Based on Stephen King’s epic novel, IT was 195 minutes of friendship and fear. At times it felt like watching a more unnerving version of The Goonies but that’s the …
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is without question the most fascinating and downright confusing series in the genre’s history. The original sequels had so little to do with one another that each one felt like a remake, and after 2003’s actual remake we’ve been fed a slew of oddities – from a prequel to that …
At the time of writing this we are 1/4 of a way through 2015, and a handful of this year’s most anticipated horror movies have already seen release. We’ve been fed box office stinkers like The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death and The Lazarus Effect, but we’ve also gotten a decent amount of …
Henry is sitting as still as a statue. The morning sun is coming in through the blinds, making bands of light across the patient charts on his desk. His desk phone rings. Henry makes no move to answer. After a moment, there is a polite tapping at his door. Henry stares straight ahead; even his …
Before making The Woman in Black, James Watkins wrote and directed Eden Lake, which centered on a couple being terrorized by a band of evil kids while on a romantic getaway. Thoroughly disturbing, the British film made some powerful statements about humanity, resonating in such a way that the passage of time since first experiencing …
I often find myself EXTREMELY conflicted when it comes to sequels. A huge portion of my brain knows they are normally a bad idea, doing nothing but diluting a story and its characters while tarnishing a unique original movie in the pursuit of more dollars. But there is also a deep dark corner, tucked well …
Legend has it that George Romero and Laurel Entertainment, after making Creepshow, were keen on the idea of turning the property into a small screen television series, though rights issues prevented them from doing so. Instead, they took the horror anthology format and renamed it Tales from the Darkside, with the Creepshow-inspired series debuting in …
I Had to share this picture I grabbed a couple of days ago during a supermarket visit with the kids. A few minutes after we arrived my daughter ran over to me as I was wearily trying to decide which carrots to buy and started prodding my hand repeatedly and shouting “Can I have this …
