Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into...
Being queer is pretty cool, but also pretty exhausting. As you search to find yourself in film, television, books, and...
We don’t typically think of mythology as horror-leaning. Though a lot of myths have some pretty horrific origins, the ones western culture are most familiar with have been sanitized, made more palpable to a PG-13 audience. Where once there was the monstrous frost giants of Norse mythology, there’s now hammer-fodder...
Welcome to Awfully Good, where we celebrate movies that suck! Keeping with January’s Black and White Fright theme, tonight’s movie...
More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar,...
Think zom-coms are dead? Think again. The horror genre has witnessed consistent waves of zombified villains since Victor Halperin first got his hands on one of Kenneth Webb’s most famous Broadway plays, but our fascination with the living dead and our hunger for their nuanced existence remains insatiable. Our romance...
Fair or not, films that have their release dates pushed back or flat-out shelved indefinitely tend to be looked down...
Rob Zombie’s Firefly Family is back! 3 From Hell, the followup to 2010’s The Devil’s Rejects is in select theatres now,...
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...
Punk rock was my first true love. We met in high school and the music changed my life forever. But...
Canada’s national treasure of indie genre cinema, Bruce McDonald, returns with a dark and dreamy oeuvre titled Dreamland. Those who...
Keola Racela’s feature film debut Porno pits a group of innocent Christian teenagers against an evil unleashed in their local movie theatre after watching a mysterious old film. Porno is absolutely hilarious, goofy, gory fun and was easily one of the biggest highlights of the 2019 Overlook Film Festival. You can read our...