July 13th marked the series premiere of the Guillermo del Toro-produced FX series The Strain, based on a trio of novels he recently penned with Chuck Hogan. Co-written and directed by Del Toro himself, the pilot episode effectively introduced the world of the series and the characters who will inhabit it, leaving me thirsty for …
After three episodes comprised of relative dullness and the kind of boredom that should never be on display in a show so typically entertaining as True Blood, the series regained a whole lot of momentum in last week’s Episode 4, which at long last made me excited about the fact that the show is back. …
It was hard not to be a little bit disappointed with The Purge, which took a brilliant and totally evocative concept and turned it into a fairly generic home invasion movie. I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, I just expected so much MORE from a movie about all crime – including murder – being …
They is an excellent, very scary movie. And despite having pretty decent production value, great effects, and being very claustrophobic, creepy, suspenseful, having FreakyLinks favorite Ethan Embry, being presented by Wes Craven, and playing in theaters, either no one saw it (or heard of it) or of those that did, they absolutely hated it. Of …
I’ll never forget the night I went on Chatroulette with some friends a few years back, which was equal parts fascinating, disturbing, hilarious and utterly creepy. If you’ve never been on, Chatroulette is one of many internet services where you can live video chat with people from all over the world, giving you unsettling access …
Right about now, us horror fans are in the midst of an absolute golden age of television, with the quality of shows on networks like AMC, HBO, A&E, FX and even NBC far surpassing most of the genre films that have been released into theaters in the past few years. The Walking Dead, Hannibal and …
If you’re a regular reader of my weekly True Blood recaps here on HL, then surely you’ve caught onto the fact by now that I haven’t thus far been a big fan of the show’s seventh and final season. Quite frankly, the first three episodes of Season 7 just plain bored me, with little happening …
What was the first horror movie you ever owned? In my case it was a brand new, mint condition copy of A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2, in a large VHS rental box that had been purchased by my parents from a mail order company. If memory serves it was Christmas 1986, I was …
Presumably referring to the criticism being heaped upon his latest film, Deliver Us from Evil, writer/director Scott Derrickson tweeted something out over the weekend, which really stuck with me. “A good movie doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel,” he wrote, “but it does have to roll it well.” What Derrickson was essentially saying is that …
Despite my love for anthology films, I put off on watching V/H/S/2 for an entire year, due to the fact that I was largely underwhelmed with 2012’s first installment. I found V/H/S to contain more misses than it did hits, and I was all around quite unimpressed with the short films that comprised it. Now …
