While author Shirley Jackson would like us to believe “houses aren’t haunted – people are,” filmmaker Adam Stovall thinks the...
DESCRIPTION: Welcome back to Nightmare Alley, the spooky sidestreet podcast in the Nightmare on Film Street feed! This week, Jon...
Every year is a good year for horror. That used to just be a nice thing to say but even 2020 managed to deliver the scares despite *motions toward everything*. The release schedule was looking pretty grim earier this year but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t one of the...
As the telltale chill of fall begins to haunt the breeze and scratch at the senses, a power is reawakened....
There’s nothing like a good werewolf movie to help you ring in the foggy, full moon season. I’ll take a...
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...
Indie film is firing on all cylinders when it’s at its most ambitious, and that’s exactly what you’re in for...
You might think comedy is the genre for “weird families,” but I’d argue it’s horror. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
Being a teenager almost always feels like an inescapable curse, but the 17-year-old girl at the center of Thomas Robert Lee’s The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is the living embodiment of evil. She may walk and talk like the rest of us but she breathes smoke and death followers wherever she...
In Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door, a gang of outlaws bite off more than they can chew after a simple...
Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle documents five years in the life of an indie filmmaker. The documentary is not only a must-see...
With so much misinformation flying around these days, we don’t readily attach credence to any movie claiming it is “based on true events.” That is exactly what was written on posters for Andrew Traucki’s Black Water. In its defense, the indie movie was inspired by a real-life case of children...