As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people...
The “Final Girl” has been a prominent trope in horror since it was popularized in the 1970s in films like...
“So what’s with the 80’s theme?” “It’s the epitome of cheese. And sometimes, I like to smile.” Talk about summarizing an entire film in two lines of dialogue. A homage to the 80’s slasher era, Marcel Walz’s Pretty Boy captures all of the campy goodness of its ancestors, from the synth-pop...
Titane is the femme-powered cannon that’s been taking the festival season by storm, and rightly so. Written and directed by...
Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield for another round of tricks and treats (and murders!) in Halloween Kills, David Gordon Green’s follow-up...
It’s been a busy week for slasher fans with not one, but two bold re-imaginings of classic franchise favorites. First, of course, was David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills, which has taken the Michael Myers mythos into murky waters for an often heavy-handed dialog about the destructive nature of trauma. And while...
Horror, what would we do without you? Without exaggeration, 2021 provided fans with one of the greatest slates of horror...
It’s hard to believe there’s much of anything to get excited for in these strange and depressing times, but there’s...
In Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes’ Sisssy, a self-help influencer goes off the deep end at a bachelorette party for an old friend. It’s a smart, fun slasher with complex characters and some great practical effects. It also has a thing or two to say about the darker side of...
There is something so wickedly delicious about a slasher film. We sit on the edge of our seats with bated...
The Third Saturday In October and The Third Saturday in October Part V is a double feature that provides an intriguing...
Horror movies wouldn’t be horror movies without a good villain that you love to hate! While we can all acknowledge that these fictional characters are “the bad guys” of their stories it can still be fun to examine them through a different lens and try to understand them on a...