Netflix just unleashed The Haunting of Hill House and what you discover within its walls may take you by surprise. I admit...
I’m not a huge fan of jump-scares in horror movies. I think they can work if they’re sparse, like in...
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...
Dead men tell no tales, but they do take some interesting secrets to the grave. Brazilian writer and director Dennison...
Brandon Christensen’s Still/Born was named Scariest Feature at the 2017 Overlook Film Festival. His second feature Z celebrated its world premiere at the...
Director Adam Mason’s (I‘m Just F***ing With You) portrait of a broken patriarch enters the world of Blumhouse and Hulu’s exclusive holiday anthology series, Into The Dark, by bringing grief and fear to the isolated front door of a father-daughter road trip in They Come Knocking. Grief plays a primal,...
Anyone with a toe in the world of social media can tell you it’s rife with horror potential. Most of...
Haunted dolls are a nightmare. Their porcelain faces are frozen in haunting smiles that ooze sinister intention. Their unblinking eyes...
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...
Making a laugh-filled comedy with heart is next to impossible, and making a truly disturbing horror film can be a...
There was something so captivating about Robert Eggers’ The Witch that we have talked about it constantly since its 2015...
The nature of human existence and one’s perception of reality can raise questions by challenging our own fundamental experience. In David Rosenthal’s remake of Jacob’s Ladder (2019), we find ourselves confronted with grotesque visions, dreams, and traumatic flashbacks, all of which attempt to distort our judgment of what’s real and what’s...