horror movies
Disaster/Artist: The Mind-Boggling Career of Tobe Hooper
Of all the masters of horror, Tobe Hooper has the most confounding career. He’s done enough to earn the title, but not enough to stand comfortably beside contemporaries like John Carpenter and ...
Audition: Disturbing Torture Film or Black Romantic Comedy?
Audition is fairly widely regarded as one of the most disturbing Japanese horror films, if not simply one of the most disturbing horror films, worldwide. And that is a valid statement. Directed b...
XLrator Media Acquires Misery Clone Amnesiac
XLrator Media announced today that they have secured the North American distribution rights to the memory loss thriller Amnesiac. It sounds an awful lot like a rehash of the Stephen King cla...
Why Alien 3 is the Most Unsung of the Entire Franchise
Alien 3 is a movie that gets a lot of hate. Even now, after twenty years, most people do not consider it good. Director David Fincher has gone onto stardom and numerous Academy Award nominations. He&#...
How Near Dark Explores the Dark Side of Family Structure
Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark is a horror movie about family. That does not make it a family horror movie, mind you. But its center focus is on the structure of the modern family dynamic. The pro...
Why Twilight Zone: The Movie is One of the Most Overlooked Anthology Films
[soliloquy id=”17249″] Horror anthology films were very successful in the 1980’s in a way that they have not since been, unfortunately. Some of the best of the sub-genre came about ...
How May Explores the Horrors of Becoming an Adult
Lucky McKee‘s May is occasionally referred to as Carrie for the next generation, which is a term often tacked on to horror movies with a female protagonist. Other than t...
Daniel’s Top Five of 2014
Though typically a genre quickly discredited by most critical circles, 2014 contested horror’s place as a riveting and innovative corner of cinema. It Follows, for example, dissected a tr...
Five More Australian Horror Films to Watch After the Babadook
A few days ago, we took a look at Five Australian Horror Films to Watch After the Babadook. It garnered quite a bit of attention and suggestions from readers, so we’re following it up today wit...