Love hurts. And love hurts way, way worse in a horror movie! To celebrate the holiday of chalky heart-shaped candy...
Welcome to Know Your Trope, your rough-and-tumble monthly guide through horror history. In this column, we’ll be diving deep into...
Some say the Halloween season begins with the turning of the leaves or that first brisk morning. Well, not for this guy. Not anymore, at least. The first whiff of that sweet sweet smell of artificial fog – that’s when spooky season rises from the grave. Yours truly was fortunate...
62.5%
Carter Smith’s breakout short film Bugcrush shocked and awed audiences at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Horror fans will no doubt...
68.75%
There is no shortage of horror films that center around cults. The word “cult” alone sparks immediate intrigue, and it...
85%
With technology ever-increasing, it’s no surprise Found Footage’s younger cousin — the screenlife movie — has been charging full-steam ahead. We’ve traded analog and shaky handheld cameras for shaky handheld iPhones and computer desktops. Instead of our characters getting lost in the woods, they’re getting lost in the dusty archives...
80.25%
Everyone will need insurance at some point in their life but the last people anyone wants to deal with are...
95%
Nick Gillespie’s dark comedy Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break is as sweet as it is sinewy. It tugs on your heartstrings, tickles...
83.75%
As a fan of Travis Stevens’s previous film, Girl On The Third Floor, I had a pretty good sense that Jakob’s Wife would be loaded with great gore gags and complex characters, but I was genuinely surprised by the chemistry between leads Barbara Crampton (Chopping Mall, Sacrifice) and Larry Fessenden (Depraved, Habit). The...
It was a huge surprise to me that Travis Steven’s sophomore feature Jakob’s Wife was a gattdang vampire movie! Starring...
“She’s actually evil. Not ‘high school’ evil.” We are nearing the end of February here at Nightmare on Film Street,...
When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how much I would love to return to the historical city. I think about jazz, the architecture, the above-ground cemeteries and its strong connection to voodoo. And when I think about...
