Lloyd Kaufman is a pioneer of independent cinema. For more than 45 years, his B-movie studio Troma Entertainment has been...
It’s been 24 years since the release of Tromeo and Juliet (and it still blows my mind that James Gunn...
I remember interning at Fantasia three years ago and attending the Frontieres Market, a place for filmmakers to pitch ideas and rake in funding for their next project. While walking around the crowded room aimlessly, I was handed a postcard, advertising a movie called Slaxx, with the subtitle “An ass...
Horror has played with depicting the world of dreams before. The most iconic foray into the horrors of our sleeping...
Since the beginning of Fantasia 2020, I’ve been telling everyone I know about Fried Barry, a wild and colorful film...
I love a good haunted house film — the genre is my ghost loving horror fan addiction. But as rich a sub-genre as it is, it sometimes feels like there’s only so many ways to tell a haunted house story. That’s why it’s such a treat when you happen upon...
Although most are familiar with the “La Llorona” legend, this latest adaptation is a fresh take that tackles the complicated...
In Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie in 2000 there were hints that a particularly creative filmmaker could use the mutant...
[Making a Monster] How Filmmaking Frustrations Yielded Clive Barker’s “Super-Butchers” in HELLRAISER
“What’s in the box?!” As it turns out, there are much worse things to find in there than Gwyneth Paltrow’s head. It’s Hot As Hell this month at Nightmare on Film Street, and well, it’s certainly hot as hell! Nature’s oven currently sets at 95 degrees outside my door, but...
The “us versus them” mentality is well and alive in Get Duked!, an effervescent gem from across the pond. Originally titled Boyz...
The stakes have never been higher for Bill & Ted than they are in Bill & Ted Face The Music. Sure, they’ve...
Movies are sometimes more than they claim to be. In the case of M. J. Bassett’s Rogue — what is thought to be a point-and-shoot actioner about soldiers battling a man-eating lion — turns out to be a little more robust in its story. Co-written by the director and her...