This review was originally published as part of our 2021 Fantasia Film Festival coverage. Filmmaking is a family affair for...
As the telltale chill of fall begins to haunt the breeze and scratch at the senses, a power is reawakened....
There’s a certain finesse, a careful craft, that should be applied whenever a filmmaker decides to revisit a considerably popular genre film. Sequels, remakes, retellings, continuations, and all the variances in between are born with the automatic stigma of a lesser than status, marking them as a challenge from the...
In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
If there’s one subgenre of horror so malleable that it can mold itself to any theme, vampires would be the...
The 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival kicks off October 13 for 7 days of horror cinema guaranteed to melt your brain, chill your bones, and bring your darkest nightmares to life. Included in this year’s lineup is a 31-pumpkin salute to Italian Horror Maestro Lucio Fulci, a free screening of...
As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people...
On June 21st 1972, Alfred Hitchcock’s sleaziest film was released into the world. Frenzy captured the vibe of London in...
When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how much I would love to return to the historical city. I think about jazz, the architecture, the above-ground cemeteries and its strong connection to voodoo. And when I think about...
Welcome to the mind-bending world of surreal horror movies, where the boundaries of reality are shattered, and nightmares come alive....
From troubling transformations to insidious implications, body horror taps into our most base-level fears. The concept of being trapped inside...
Some say the Halloween season begins with the turning of the leaves or that first brisk morning. Well, not for this guy. Not anymore, at least. The first whiff of that sweet sweet smell of artificial fog – that’s when spooky season rises from the grave. Yours truly was fortunate...