Classic Horror
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 ...
Not Counting the Count: Noteworthy Vampire Classics That Aren’t Dracula
Bram Stoker’s brilliant epistolary novel has terrified readers and inspired artists of all stripes since the 1890s. But Dracula isn’t the only blood-thirsty night-prowler who’s been around since Queen...
Five Horror Movies That Set LGBTQ+ Rights Back
In honor of Pride 2021, we’re looking at the queer horror canon that most set the movement back. Here are five films, in particular, that portray the LGBTQIA community in a poor light. How many have ...
Five Must See Horror Films from the ‘30s and ‘40s That Don’t Feature the Universal Monsters
When you think of classic horror movies from the 1930s and 1940s, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s probably the Universal Classic Monsters. Films like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man ...
The Advent of Holiday Horror: Creature Classic Viewing Recommendations
Welcome to the first installment of December’s Advent of Holiday Horror! Leading up to the new year, we’ll be sharing some recommendations to help make your socially-distanced holiday season more ente...
Is The Babysitter: Killer Queen a Cult Classic or a Killer Miss?
The prime time for Horror fans is finally upon us, and Netflix is here to deliver. With older favorites like Evil Dead (1981), Killer Clowns from Outer-Space (1988), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), an...
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection [Blu-Ray Review]
Alfred Hitchcock was a true master of suspense. He started directing films in the medium’s silent infancy, and continued through the addition of sound, and creating some of his best work after color w...
The Hills Run Red is a Criminally Underrated Slasher [Quarantine Retrospective]
While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to time to keep t...
Planet Terror is a Neo-Grindhouse Classic [Retrospective]
This homage to the grindhouse cinema of the ‘70s is set in the present but it has plenty of throwbacks to the days of the drive-in cinema. The crackling picture, the exploitative nature of the film, m...
