Dystopian horror movies have a special power to transport us into nightmarish worlds, where man is pitted against the elements,...
Everyone will need insurance at some point in their life but the last people anyone wants to deal with are...
There’s nothing that can drive joyful motivation and uninhibited rage quite like a nice big Christmas bonus at the end of the year. The spread of cheer can come to a quick halt when the bonus in desire is held to a more nefarious workplace standard. The terms “cut-throat” and...
Pizza, Satan, and secret societies. I’m hard-pressed to think of a horror-cocktail more universally inviting. It’s no surprise Chelsea Stardust’s...
Welcome to Know Your Trope, your rough-and-tumble monthly guide through horror history. In this column, we’ll be diving deep into...
I’m not a huge fan of jump-scares in horror movies. I think they can work if they’re sparse, like in Stephen King’s IT. But too often, I think they’re used as an easy way to scare the audience, repeatedly forcing fear out of them by playing tense music and dropping...
A mainstay of the horror genre and the centerpiece to countless iconic thrillers- sociopaths are the characters you love to...
The lights are down, the candy is unwrapped, and I’m practicing my cultured chuckle, which can mean only one thing:...
It’s that time of the month, readers. Dust off your battlevest, knock back that 40 oz, and settle in for another edition of Gut The Punks! A monthly column devoted to genre cinema with a loose association to punk rock, heavy metal or any other counterculture, set to a loud,...
We are safe and sound so long as we are in our own homes—this longstanding, unspoken notion has been challenged...
With technology ever-increasing, it’s no surprise Found Footage’s younger cousin — the screenlife movie — has been charging full-steam ahead....
Out of all the horror films I’ve seen this year, my favorite opening shot came from Ready or Not. It’s the cover art to an old-timey (fictional) board game called “La Bail’s Gamble.” Over its retro Milton-Bradley scenery is a grinning vaudeville fiend, cackling with some horrible expression of certain...