There are good reasons moviegoers are wary of CGI. If it’s not done well, it can be distracting. Even when...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney...
Is there anything more terrifying to a teen girl than coming into adulthood? I think not. Cinema has often used the ‘coming-of-age’ arch to tell stories about individual journeys, love, and loss. Horror is no different, even though it seeks the extreme of the spectrum. What better example of a...
[Review] A Small-Town Murder Mystery Undergoes A Monstrous Transformation in THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
If you wanted to, you could view the “Horror Vs. Thriller” debate about The Silence of the Lambs to be...
Happy Easter, fiends! Whether or not you celebrate the holiday, I think we can all agree on one thing: bunnies...
Which came first, Jaws or the summer monster movie? Of course, a film historian would point out that Jaws was the first really big monster movie intended for warm weather and drive-ins, but haven’t we known that long before 1975? There’s something so natural, so right about watching Human Vs....
There were a lot of reasons to be excited for season three of Stranger Things. But don’t for a second...
James Gunn loves superheroes. Even before he took the helm of the wildly popular Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, Gunn...
In the crammed video aisle of supernatural horror films, the introduction of a villainous teddy bear in Imaginary might initially raise more eyebrows than pulse rates. Directed with a keen eye for the absurd by Jeff Wadlow (director of NOFS fave Cry_Wolf) and penned by the trio of Wadlow, Greg...
Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into...
Mary Shelley, Haifaa Al-Mansour’s new biopic focusing on the life of Frankenstein‘s creator, is a bit like the titular writer’s famous...
It’s a high-stakes (pun intended) battle between master and familiar in the action-horror Renfield (2023), directed by Chris McKay from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley. Combining deviously fantastical fight sequences, a fiercely fresh take on an unexplored branch of Dracula lore, and downright inspired casting, the film is a sinister...