There is something every horror fan understands – the world needs to laugh at terrible things. Not a horror film...
Rob Zombie’s Firefly Family is back! 3 From Hell, the followup to 2010’s The Devil’s Rejects is in select theatres now,...
Rose Glass’ Saint Maud stunned Midnight Madness audiences at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, and it remains the one movie that continues to linger in my own mind. Saint Maud marks Glass’ feature film debut and is truly haunt exploration of a woman’s descent after a particularly traumatic, and...
Japanese director Takashi Miike is prolific, to say the least. He has directed over 100 films, ranging from horrifying to...
At this point in 2019, we can agree that horror is, or at least can be, political. New director Orçun...
Pumpkin spice is back at your favorite coffee shop. Plastic pumpkins and skeleton fill the aisles of craft stores. Spirit Halloweens are opening across the country. Halloween is here, everyone, and I couldn’t be more excited. With the approaching holiday looming like a glowing jack-o-lantern on the horizon, Josh Hasty’s...
What puts the ‘haunt’ in a haunted house for you? Is it small spaces? Creepy crawlers? Morphed rooms? Masked monsters?...
It all starts with a little girl wanting a chocolate ice cream cone and ends with a showdown of epic...
Is there anything more iconic in horror than the haunted house? An isolating setting, shadowy nooks, crannies, and the invasion of the penultimate safe space. The perfect cocktail for horror. Keith Thomas’ The Vigil takes that classic, terrifying format and drops it right in the center of an Orthodox Jewish...
This past July, I wrote a piece on punk rockers in genre films, and how a new generation of filmmakers...
Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped on everyone’s sunny day like a thick, heavy vat of hot tar. The film tells the story of a young girl, hidden away from the world by well-meaning but ill-prepared...