If you’ve listened to the recent episodes of the Nightmare On Film Street podcast, you might have noticed the topic...
Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence features some pretty elaborate deaths, tailor-made for the Midnight Madness crowd. Adapted from his short Conductor, the...
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Filmmaking is a tough racket–it’s hard enough to get the film made, to make it through the stages of production, and to acquire distribution. Then you have to get people to, you know, see your film, and hopefully care about it. As Danny Boyle notably once said, “To be [an...
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While author Shirley Jackson would like us to believe “houses aren’t haunted – people are,” filmmaker Adam Stovall thinks the...
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While we see a fair share of movies about the elusive and iconic Bigfoot, the Wendigo is far less depicted;...
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The slasher has outlasted its presumed expiration date, and then some. The golden age of this divisive subgenre is certainly behind us; there may not be another renaissance quite like the one seen last century. Regardless of time and demand, filmmakers keep stabbing at a routine story. The undistinguished efforts...
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Indie film is firing on all cylinders when it’s at its most ambitious, and that’s exactly what you’re in for...
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In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
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At one point or another, we have all found ourselves laying on the bedroom floor, staring up at the ceiling, thinking about our own mortality. It may have been a fleeting thought or a long thread of ideas about what it means to die, to no longer exist, to leave...
The Oak Room (2020) is a love letter to the gothic thrillers of the past, which is fitting, since the...
Joining the tradition of the stalker horror subgenre, specifically the “lady stalker” theme of films like Misery and Fatal Attraction,...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi?!), and the movie’s importance to werewolf lore (silver-as-kryptonite and full-moon-transformations come from this film). But what will always get me about this movie is the ending....
