As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people...
DESCRIPTION: In celebration of Nightmare on Film Street’s month-long salute to horror movie re-imaginings and resurrections, we’re focusing our attention...
The “Final Girl” has been a prominent trope in horror since it was popularized in the 1970s in films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Alien. They feature strong female protagonists who, against all odds, defeat the evil that preys upon them and find themselves the...
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Of the many torture devices of the Dark Ages, few measure up to the Iron Maiden. The coffin-like structure is...
I’ve long been fascinated about how horror cinema and musical genre crossover. Music fans can discover their new favorite movie...
[Making a Monster] How Filmmaking Frustrations Yielded Clive Barker’s “Super-Butchers” in HELLRAISER
“What’s in the box?!” As it turns out, there are much worse things to find in there than Gwyneth Paltrow’s head. It’s Hot As Hell this month at Nightmare on Film Street, and well, it’s certainly hot as hell! Nature’s oven currently sets at 95 degrees outside my door, but...
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Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield for another round of tricks and treats (and murders!) in Halloween Kills, David Gordon Green’s follow-up...
Happy Cops ‘n’ Killers month, fiends! Or should I say “Cops…who royally screwed up and burned said killer alive, turning...
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“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...
As one of the first people to see the completed Halloween film, I’m going to do my absolute best to...
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It’s been 44 years since John Carpenter and Debra Hill first introduced legendary slasher Michael Myers and definitive “final girl” Laurie...
Hospitals are scary places. They’re where we’re most vulnerable. Either we’re visiting someone who’s sick or, even worse, we are the someone who is sick. There’s always something uncanny about the pure white walls, the strange existence for the people working there and the transient nature of just… being around...
