Retrospectives
How The Devil’s Rejects Completely Evolved the Concept of House of 1,000 Corpses
Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses is a fun movie. It’s not a bad feature by any means, especially for a first time director. It was, by all accounts, not remotely easy to make. Univers...
How ‘Dead Alive’ Beat ‘Shaun of the Dead’ to the Punch by 14 Years
Everyone remembers their favorite zombie comedy, the one about the guy with the stagnant life, a meek and ambitionless adult who needs to take action in a surprisingly sincere romantic comedy to save ...
How Modern Horror is Still Borrowing from Black Sunday
There are a select few directors who immediately come to mind when fans across the world think of Italian horror. While the country has produced so many of the most amazingly talented filmmakers, Dari...
How ‘Rawhead Rex’ Explored Celtic Horror in Unexpcted Ways
Clive Barker has had a lot of success on the screen. But then, of course, there are the movies that came early in his career. Barker was so disappointed with his early work in film as a screenwriter t...
Why Phantasm Works in All the Ways Movies Typically Fail
Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm is a mostly undisputed genre classic. It’s an intense, atmospheric ‘70s horror that spawned a franchise that has spanned several decades. Those that...
Why Wishmaster is Kind of a Mess (But Still Really Fun)
I remember a time when Wishmaster was thought of as one of the bigger horror icons. He was the last guy to emerge in the ‘90s as a central character of his own franchise. The guy even had his o...
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is an Awesome, Unsung Anthology
Anthology movies have enjoyed a bit of a resurgence in recent years. There was a time when anthologies were considered box office poison and a surefire way to make a movie that nobody would see. ...
Why Ghoulies Would Have Been Better Had it Focused on Toilet Monsters [Retrospective]
I love movies about weird little monsters. Gremlins and Critters were two of my favorites as a kid. I discovered Ghoulies right in the middle of all of that and was allowed to rent the film because it...
Why ‘Cujo’ is a Hauntingly Plausible Classic
Directed by Lewis Teague (just coming off another rampaging animal movie, Alligator, at the time) Cujo tells the story of a St. Bernard that goes rabid after chasing a rabbit into a cave inhabited by ...