Mexican folklore gets The Conjuring treatment in The Curse of La Llorona, the latest haunt from New Line Cinema with...
A quick heads up: if you haven’t checked out Part One of States of Horror, go ahead and read it...
Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman’s Extra Ordinary is a delightfully charming Irish comedy and quite possibly the cutest ghost story ever made. I’m by no means a Grinch about lighthearted and fun-loving stories but, without a doubt, my horror-hardened heart grew 3 sizes the day I saw this surprisingly sweet film. Extra...
Travis Stevens’ Girl On The Third Floor takes the classic haunted house framework and weaves an original story that pulls...
Anyone with a toe in the world of social media can tell you it’s rife with horror potential. Most of...
There are few horrors so iconic, so jaw-droppingly terrifying, that they have eclipsed the entire horror genre. Constantly compared, credited, and used as a marker to stake a claim over entire sub-genres. I am speaking of course, about Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998), both the quintessential j-horror, paranormal mystery, and J-horror remake...
Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might...
What comes to mind when you think of Hansel and Gretel? Is it crumbs of bread making a path through...
Hungry for a spooky series to binge? This past weekend Netflix released the international series Spectros (2020), a TV-MA Brazilian ghost story set in the Liberdade neighborhood of São Paulo. From writer/director/creator Douglas Petrie comes this spooky story centered around three teens. Pardal (Danilo Mesquita), a young, street-tough yet troubled...
[Sorta SXSW Review] REMINISCENCES OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION is a Melancholy Nontraditional Ghost Story
Among the many excellent short films set to be showcased at the now-canceled SXSW 2020 was Dean Colin Marcial’s Reminceses...
You Should Have Left reunites writer/director David Koepp with actor/lead Kevin Bacon to tell the story of a retired banker...
Impetigore is one of those words that sounds scary, seems intriguing, and might be meaningful in all of its 10-letter glory. It’s the perfect title for writer and director Joko Anwar’s (Satan’s Slaves) latest Indonesian horror referred to as Perempuan Tanah Jahanam. The film’s original title “Woman of the Cursed Land”...