More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar,...
The 2022 Overlook Film Festival returns to historic New Orleans, Louisiana beginning June 2nd for a 4-day weekend of weird...
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Slasher fans have been ringing in The New Year for decades now by rewatching the 80s party horror classic Terror Train. The Jamie Lee Curtis cult favorite has been scaring up a good time for over 40 years now but it’s time we pass the torch on to a new...
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Gothic vampire horror seems to never go out of style. Even now, a new Victorian adaptation of Dracula is heading...
If there is any universal notion that proves to be wholly unerring it is that you cannot escape the past....
There is a special magic in the folk tale. Modern media can give you great stories, for sure. But folklore is in our bones. There’s something about an organic legend that just means more, as though its oral history or long lifespan gives it more worth. It’s been imbued by...
Forgive me if I sound old-fashioned, but murdered teens just aren’t what they used to be. There was a time...
Ghostface returns this weekend in Scream VI and his/her/their (who knows!) reign of terror has expanded out from the quiet, sleepy...
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The ghosts of our past return to haunt the living in Ted Geoghegan’s post WWII supernatural thriller Brooklyn 45. Set in that no man’s land between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, a group of estranged friends get together for the first time in years to comfort a friend. All veterans...
When democracy fails, it’s not hard to believe in a “deep state” conspiracy. Whether it’s the Illuminati or Lizard People,...
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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...
What does Thanksgiving really mean? Is it all about obnoxious feasting? Family turmoil? Idle device fixation? Superficial displays? Whitewashed genocide? Blumhouse and Hulu’s year-long holiday horror anthology, Into The Dark, continues to drive home the notion that families are still important in America, but questions the quality and meaning of...
