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 …
To surprisingly little fanfare, Season 1 of Nickelodeon’s Canadian TV series Are You Afraid of the Dark? was quietly released onto DVD here in the states last Tuesday, as part of Amazon’s manufacture-on-demand service. The collection was followed up this week by the complete second season, presumably with the others to follow in the coming …
True Blood‘s seventh season premiere kinda bored me, which was surprising considering I expected the show to bust out all the stops right out of the gate – this being the final season, and all. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a momentum pick-up on this past Sunday night’s episode, which I didn’t get the chance …
In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. Danny Boyle’s visually stunning masterpiece …
A die-hard life-long horror and science-fiction buff, the late Forrest J. “Forry” Ackerman was in many ways the kind of fan that every person who writes about genre movies – myself included – aspires to be. Starting the iconic magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland in the late 1950s, Ackerman became a leading voice in the …
Not only is it widely considered the worst installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, but so too is The Next Generation widely considered to be one of the very worst horror sequels of all time. And I can’t really say I disagree, on either count. It’s not very good. But is Texas Chainsaw Massacre: …
