31 days. 31 years. 5 movies per year! That’s the challenge a good friend presented me with recently, and I NEVER back down from a challenge! (well, nearly never!) Every day through October I will be pondering and revealing my 5 favorite horror and monster movies from 1985 right up to 2016. When I was …
Every once in a while, an independent horror film garners such rave reviews on the festival circuit that future backlash is inevitable, as many fans build up impossibly high expectations in their own heads and then toss around meaningless terms like “over-hyped” when those expectations are not met – essentially, as silly as it sounds, …
Ever since the internet was created, horror fans have been bemoaning the current state of the genre. A year never passes by where I don’t see several fans on forums and social media platforms insisting that “horror is dead” and/or “just isn’t what it used to be,” and this year is no exception. The good …
April Fools’ Day is always an interesting 24-hours on the internet, as nearly every site on the web channels its inner Onion and comes up with fake news stories in an attempt to fool readers. It’s hard to trust anything you read on a day like April 1st, and quite frankly it would be wise …
Every year there’s one horror movie that tends to stand head and shoulders above the rest, almost universally praised to the point of being widely considered the best of the year. Last year’s movie was The Babadook. And though we’re only heading into April, early indication is that this year’s standout horror effort is going …
Something pretty incredible happened on March 13th. Fittingly a Friday, the second of three Friday the 13ths this year marked the limited theatrical release of new indie darling It Follows, a horror film that was released by Radius-TWC into just four theaters – and only in New York and Los Angeles. It’s of course not …
