If you’ve already seen Satan’s Slaves (2017) or Impetigore (2019), you don’t need me to tell you that Joko Anwar knows how...
Slasher fans have been ringing in The New Year for decades now by rewatching the 80s party horror classic Terror...
Social media can be a pretty negative space most of the time, but for a small group of aspiring filmmakers chatting on Clubhouse, it became a breeding ground for creativity and encouragement. Sinphony: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology was born out of the group’s love of the genre and a desire...
The V/H/S film series has been a staple in both the found footage and horror anthology arenas for years now, and V/H/S/99...
The 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival kicks off October 13 for 7 days of horror cinema guaranteed to melt your...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi?!), and the movie’s importance to werewolf lore (silver-as-kryptonite and full-moon-transformations come from this film). But what will always get me about this movie is the ending....
Gothic vampire horror seems to never go out of style. Even now, a new Victorian adaptation of Dracula is heading...
What does it take to be a good horror antagonist? A supernatural element? Any serial killer flick will tell you...
There are good reasons moviegoers are wary of CGI. If it’s not done well, it can be distracting. Even when it is, it runs the risk of becoming the point of the movie, overriding honest character reactions for what looks coolest in slow-mo. But every once in a while, there’s...
More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar,...
‘What does it sound like when a computer dreams? And what does it sound like when a computer has a...
I’m no stranger to late-night parties at a packed Brooklyn dive bar. But I have to admit, the afterparty on the third day of the Brooklyn Horror Film Fest was…new. First, I walked through the door and came face to face with two Coney Island performers. One was juggling, one...