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[Art]

The Most Awesome Images of the Week: 12/8-12/12

We’ve reached the end of another week – thank god! – which means it’s time to once again take a look at the coolest, weirdest and/or most awesome images I’ve stumbled across on the internet this week. So let’s get right to it, shall we?! Nothing says the holidays like getting your craft on and

[TV]

Hey, Golden Globes. Where’s the Horror?

It’s almost become a cliche for horror fans to react with anger whenever the big awards shows announce their annual roster of nominees, going off on social media about how horror is ‘snubbed,’ and not appreciated as a respectable form of entertainment. But as cliche as it might be, it’s almost impossible to not have

[Reviews]

Movie Review: Exists (2014)

I consider myself somewhat of a Bigfoot enthusiast, endlessly fascinated by the potential existence of the beast and eager to devour any film that promises to bring him to life. Unfortunately, horror movies featuring Sasquatch have been pretty bad over the years – and that’s kind of an understatement. It’s for this reason that I

[Reviews]

Holiday Horror Review: Christmas Evil (1980)

As a tie-in with their recent Blu-ray release, Vinegar Syndrome brought Christmas Evil to the Alamo Drafthouse’s New York location this past Friday night, allowing me to cross a big time goal off my holiday bucket list. And boy was it a treat. Directed by Lewis Jackson, Christmas Evil (originally released as You Better Watch

[Lists]

You Better Watch Out: Five Mythical Christmas Monsters

Here in America, there is one major character that represents the entirety of the Christmas season, and I’m of course referring to Santa Claus. Santa brings awesome gifts to the good children and coal to the bad ones, and though his rituals are admittedly a tad bit creepy, he’s all around a benevolent figure. In

[Movies]

Kill Her, Mommy: The Women Who Were Mrs. Voorhees

At long last, specific details about the upcoming Friday the 13th movie are starting to hit the net, as Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller recently revealed some pretty exciting details about the project. First up, he says it’s not going to be a remake or a sequel to 2009’s remake, but rather an entirely different

[Reviews]

Holiday Horror Review: Black X-Mas (2006)

As a hardcore fan of Black Christmas, I am inherently wired to hate Black X-Mas. Why? Because it’s a fucking terrible remake of Black Christmas. But I don’t hate it. In fact, I kind of love it. In last week’s 40th anniversary retrospective of the original Black Christmas, I talked rather extensively about the connections

[Art]

The Most Awesome Images of the Week: 12/1-12/5

We’ve reached the end of another week – thank god! – which means it’s time to once again take a look at the coolest, weirdest and/or most awesome images I’ve stumbled across on the internet this week. So let’s get right to it, shall we?! Entertainment Weekly came up with a pretty fun way of

[Reviews]

Movie Review: The Babadook (2014)

The best movie monsters are oftentimes metaphors for real world issues, whether we’re talking about the zombies in George Romero’s films or that big green dude in Godzilla. This year, you can add Mister Babadook to that list, as well as any list that collects together the horror genre’s most memorable icons. Written and directed

[Reviews]

Halloween Love’s 40th Anniversary Black Christmas Retrospective

It’s almost always impossible to pinpoint the horror movie that started any given sub-genre, though there are films within each that have more or less had that honor bestowed upon them. Though not the first of its kind, for example, The Blair Witch Project is nevertheless seen as the ‘first’ found footage movie, due mostly