horror films
The Intensity of High Tension: A Look at Plagiarism in Horror
In a time of remakes, reboots, re-imaginings and so forth, the genre fan has a narrowed selection in terms of originality. This debatable lack of creativity divides audiences on a regular basis. Wheth...
Jason Voorhees Has Been Played by These Actors [Men Behind the Mask]
Unlike his nemesis Freddy Krueger, Jason has never had much of a consistent portrayal on film. Sure, for awhile there it seemed things had changed. But now we’re back right where we started, wi...
Why ‘Project: Metalbeast’ is Top-Notch Schlock (And Should be Remembered)
Most people reading this have probably never heard of Project: Metalbeast. That’s not a criticism of the horror community. There are so many forgotten gems. And plenty of people who have seen t...
These Seven Movies Were Blamed for Real-Life Crimes
Horror movies are frequently blamed for any number of things. People say that something has to be wrong with somebody who watches horror. The movies are even blamed for violence in general. If violent...
Bigger is Better: Old-School Giant Monster Flicks That Still Hold Up Remarkably Well
With Kaiju experincing a cinematic resurgance, people are falling in love with ferocious, roaring, giant monsters all over again. Because of that, I thought it would be interesting to go back and look...
‘Arcadian’ Boasts Terrifying Monsters of Our Own Making [Review]
The question of whether we’ve engineered our own demise by treating the planet like garbage hangs low over Arcadian, the sprightly and fitfully frightening new movie from director Benjamin Brew...
Eight Grindhouse Movies That Need To Be Rediscovered
There is a prevalent fascination with grindhouse cinema that persists even though most casual horror fans didn’t know what it was twenty years ago. This whole style had been long-forgotten, dug...
‘Terror Train’ is a Surprisingly Innovative Slasher
The slasher subgenre boomed after the release of John Carpenter’s Halloween. Where no one was even really sure that Halloween would work—at least not in the way that it did—once i...
‘The Camp Host’ Will Put You Off The Great Outdoors [Review]
We all went a little mad during the pandemic and The Camp Host, the debut feature from writer-director Henry Darrow McComas (who co-wrote and co-produced the lively documentary Wolfman’s Got Na...