Nowadays, clowns are as synonymous with horror as vampires and zombies. These once-comical entertainers have influenced a new culture of...
Sorry to say it, but we’re not that much less superstitious than our ancestors. Sure, there’s more scientific knowledge today than...
Arielle Cimino and Jeffrey Ryan’s horror-comedy Mass Hysteria follows a group of actors who reenact the events surrounding the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts. Bu this year, the cast becomes the targets in a modern day witch hunt. The film stars Geena Santiago, Jeffrey Ryan, Charlie Pollock, Louis Cancelmi, Destry...
Psychological horror is an often overused label, but the new indie horror The Dead Center is the rare bird that...
Cults are all the rage. Escaping cults, joining cults, discussing cults, it’s been the year of the cult in horror...
Pumpkin spice is back at your favorite coffee shop. Plastic pumpkins and skeleton fill the aisles of craft stores. Spirit Halloweens are opening across the country. Halloween is here, everyone, and I couldn’t be more excited. With the approaching holiday looming like a glowing jack-o-lantern on the horizon, Josh Hasty’s...
Is there anything more iconic in horror than the haunted house? An isolating setting, shadowy nooks, crannies, and the invasion...
Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
Darlin’ is a strange sort of horror film. Its events are not particularly suspenseful, and there is nary a jump scare in sight. Yet the film, from director Pollyanna McIntosh, is frightening nonetheless. Its horror lies in the disturbing reality of the misogynistic world it portrays and the suffering that...
The 2019 Fantasia Film Festival is home to surprising and shocking cinema and their Fantasia Underground program is the showcase...
Opening the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival Underground program this year was a surprising indie film, and one of the festival’s...
It takes a lot of guts to make a movie. Putting something you created out there for people to judge, critique and scrutinize isn’t for the faint of heart, but putting something out there that has a deeply personal message is downright terrifying for most movie makers. Chad Archibald’s I’ll...