Happy Easter, fiends! Whether or not you celebrate the holiday, I think we can all agree on one thing: bunnies...
Though The Strangers: Prey At Night may be just as sadistic as its predecessor, it fell victim to the horror movie...
Out of all the horror films I’ve seen this year, my favorite opening shot came from Ready or Not. It’s the cover art to an old-timey (fictional) board game called “La Bail’s Gamble.” Over its retro Milton-Bradley scenery is a grinning vaudeville fiend, cackling with some horrible expression of certain...
Which came first, Jaws or the summer monster movie? Of course, a film historian would point out that Jaws was...
It’s a high-stakes (pun intended) battle between master and familiar in the action-horror Renfield (2023), directed by Chris McKay from...
Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into our society. It isn’t just a story of a murderous clown, it’s also about the horrors of growing up. The Wolf Man isn’t just about werewolves, Frankenstein isn’t just about reanimated corpses, Bird Box isn’t just about...
In the crammed video aisle of supernatural horror films, the introduction of a villainous teddy bear in Imaginary might initially...
Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into...
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...
Let me be perfectly honest. I don’t know how to review Come to Daddy. It’s not that the Tribeca Film...
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...
There are good reasons moviegoers are wary of CGI. If it’s not done well, it can be distracting. Even when it is, it runs the risk of becoming the point of the movie, overriding honest character reactions for what looks coolest in slow-mo. But every once in a while, there’s...