“What frame of any film has been more iconic?” asks Forrest Burgess, co-host of the Astonishing Legends podcast. “We all...
Psychological horror is an often overused label, but the new indie horror The Dead Center is the rare bird that...
Vampires have gotten a bad rap as of late. The iconic monster of horror media seems to have fallen out of vogue, and its stories drained of all life or inspiration. I, a devout fan of all vampire media, despaired that there would never be a comeback for the eternal...
Vincenzo Natali’s In The Tall Grass will be released to the streaming world October 4, 2019 but Austin, Texas horror fans were...
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? A depraved man with a chainsaw? Haunted houses, and the more modern alternative of extreme haunts, are an annual opportunity to place yourself in the throes of artificial peril. The...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular...
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 the stores are lined with all the pens, pencils, binders, and themed paper goods only us strange adults dream about, the first day of school draws closer. While it can...
Does anything scream summertime horror better than boy-vs-evil? And I’m not talking Camp Crystal Lake massacre Friday the 13th, curling iron...
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 in Los Angeles. The constant sun, show biz, the palm trees, possibilities…and traffic. It’s one of the most enduring cultural ideas and it’s fascinating how it crosses over from film...