Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead’s Synchronic celebrated its US premiere at Fantastic Fest 2019 simultaneously shattering reality and presenting a...
What puts the ‘haunt’ in a haunted house for you? Is it small spaces? Creepy crawlers? Morphed rooms? Masked monsters?...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular board game of the same name. After 34 years, that film not only remains hilarious (Flames! On the side of my face!), but it also feels socially relevant in ways...
Harold Holscher’s debut feature The Soul Collector (Originally titled 8) is a folk tale from a land whose mythology is...
We’ve got spirit, yes we do! We’ve got spirit, how ‘bout you? As summer vacation comes to an end and...
Does anything scream summertime horror better than boy-vs-evil? And I’m not talking Camp Crystal Lake massacre Friday the 13th, curling iron slasher Sleepaway Camp, or don’t go in the water ever again’s Jaws — while those are all summer staples, they have one glaring difference than the horrors many of us...
There are few horrors so iconic, so jaw-droppingly terrifying, that they have eclipsed the entire horror genre. Constantly compared, credited,...
There’s something so beautiful and enticing about the idea of leaving it all behind to chase down big city dreams...
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...
There are few villains as iconic as The Ring’s Sadako. With her contorted crawl, low crackling growl, and waterfall of front-flipped...
Anyone with a toe in the world of social media can tell you it’s rife with horror potential. Most of...
Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real is a psychological horror that pits a fragile young man against himself and the horrors of his own psyche. The film stars Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger as an odd couple on the verge of insanity. in my spoiler-free review of the film, I called Daniel Isn’t Real “[a...