horror movies
Interview: Alexandre Aja Talks The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Alexandre Aja is one of the few directors that I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt helped to shape the face of modern horror. He was at the forefront of the New French Extremity movement of the early...
Here’s What We Know About Jeepers Creepers 3
Jeepers Creepers surprised everyone by being a sleeper hit when originally released in 2001. It was casually embraced by fans of the time, but we’re now seeing a whole group of young horror fan...
Where Are All the Modern Scream Queens?
The 1980s gave us so many horror icons. We got Jason, Freddy, Pinhead, and Chucky. Michael Myers got sequelized and proved he could play with the big boys, as did Leatherface. All of these characters ...
Beyond the Beyond: Seven Modern Horror Films Influenced by Fulci
The heyday of Italian horror still influences the films of today. I think this is true beyond a shadow of a doubt. Even if the movies themselves rarely fit the tone or style of early giallo classics, ...
Advance Blu-ray Review: Cell (2016)
I think the weirdest thing about Cell happening now as a feature film is that it doesn’t feel half as outdated as I expected it to. While the central conceit of cell phones has obviously only g...
Why Phantasm II Was a Bigger, Better Action Epic That Nobody Saw Coming
Phantasm was a movie that came out of nowhere in 1979 and really took people by surprise. Nobody really knew what to do with it. It was full of the kind of surrealism that only Italian filmmakers were...
Fear and Loathing: The Weird Evolution of Horror Icons in the 90s
The 1990s were an interesting time for horror. For a while, there was a need to make everything new. To make things fresh and different. This need eventually went away, but not before leaving a lastin...
Seven Legitimately Emotional Death Scenes from Horror Movies
Death scenes in horror are not typically meant to be overly emotional. It’s sort of a typical of the genre that people go into a film knowing that people are going to die in large numbers ...
Off the Grid: Seven Backwoods Texas Chainsaw Ripoffs That Hold Up
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a fiercely original film that remains one of the best horror movies ever made to this day. It was not the first isolated horror of the 1970s, but i...