I’ve long been fascinated about how horror cinema and musical genre crossover. Music fans can discover their new favorite movie...
Scary stories told by flashlight, giggling under the covers, scary movie slumber parties – these are the moments when horror...
Trying to exorcise a demon is hard enough, right? Now imagine having to deal with a whole legion! Better fill up on that holy water. The Exorcism of God takes a classic exorcism story and pushes it to its absolute limits in a showdown between the forces of good and evil....
Do you believe in demons? Do you believe that there are forces beyond your control laying in wait for the...
Agnes is not quite like any other possession movie you’ve likely seen. It follows a lot of the same beats...
Demon possession movies, although constant crowd-pleasers, are often very predictable. The multi-million dollar Conjuring franchise has pretty much laid out the groundwork for what a modern possession movie “should” look like, but occasionally a film like Mickey Reece’s Agnes comes along to challenge that well-worn template. Directed by Reece from...
There was a time when Western horror routinely questioned religions and their followers. This heated subgenre criticized seemingly untouchable organizations...
Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before follows a woman’s obsessive grief and how her desire to reconnect with her deceased daughter upends the...
The deep, dark well containing religion and faith is one that horror finds itself returning to again and again. Films like The Exorcist, The Omen, The Witch, The Devil’s Doorway and the recent Saint Maud all have roots firmly planted in holy fields. However, despite the plethora of horror films...
Anything for Jackson is one of those films that calmly takes the tried and true exorcism and possession sub-genres and...
Despite the fact that its title is my exact thought every time another news story breaks so far in 2020,...
In Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist, documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe turns his obsessive interests to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). Philippe’s most recent films have fixated on the development of Ridley Scott’s Alien and its evolution from screenwriter Dan O’Bannon’s original concept in Memory :The Origins of Alien (2019) as...