This year marks the 10th anniversary of many things us horror fans love, including films like The Devil’s Rejects, The Descent, Wolf Creek and Hostel. 2015 also saw the release of a short film called Rubber Johnny, and though you may not remember it or know it by name, I’m willing to bet you’ve seen …
I often say that a horror movie need not reinvent the proverbial wheel to be effective, as sometimes all one needs to do is simply roll it well. That’s something last year’s standout possession movie, The Taking of Deborah Logan, very much did, and 2015 kicks off on a similar note with The Atticus Institute. …
It’s somewhat surprising that the Creepshow franchise didn’t go further than it did, as the 1982 film was a big time hit for Warner Bros – both critically and financially. A sequel to the EC Comics-inspired anthology followed in 1987, which similarly turned a respectable profit. In 2007, rights-holders Taurus Entertainment released a film called …
It’s always exciting to discover things about your favorite movies that you had never noticed, despite watching them countless times. On a recent viewing of Friday the 13th: Part 3, for example, I noticed something that I was pretty surprised about, and fairly shocked that I had never before picked up on. Early in the …
This week my artistic interview is with an individual who isn’t afraid to embrace the darkness! Shadows, intricate silhouettes and fine detail is found in abundance, resulting in some truly stunning work. Matt Ryan Tobin creates poster art featuring movies and characters from many genres, and as is often the case when I approach an …
There’s no 2014 horror film that was more critically acclaimed than The Babadook, which used tragedy-induced madness as the springboard for a truly effective horror story. It’s a shame that so few seem to have seen it, because The Canal does much the same thing, and is every bit as impressive as last year’s horror …
One of the films that has been popping up on many horror fans’ Top 10 of 2014 lists is The Guest, directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next). And while it’s not quite a horror film, it’s hard to disagree with that genre classification. *If you haven’t yet seen the movie you might want to avoid …
Those on the outside of our little horror community seem to have an inherent fascination with looking in, and they also tend to get off on the idea of analyzing us and our viewing habits. For many, trying to even fathom why anyone would choose to watch horror movies is impossible, and because it’s not …
Location, location, location. The importance of location in a horror movie cannot be overstated, as the good ones understand that the setting can be a character in and of itself. The Shining, for example, had the Overlook Hotel, while Halloween had the small, atmospheric town of Haddonfield. Like The Descent and last year’s As Above, …
The [REC] series is quite an interesting one, one that doesn’t quite play by the rules of franchise horror. While the first two films were exceptional-yet-similar found footage affairs, the third installment completely shed the filmmaking style and went in a totally (and tonally) different direction, trading in the horror for horror-comedy. Just released onto …
