Retrospectives
Can We Acknowledge That ‘Event Horizon’ is the Purest Space Horror Since ‘Alien’?
So, let’s be honest right out of the gate: Paul W.S. Anderson is not known for making great movies. He is, absolutely, known for making fun movies. The Resident Evil flicks are pure popcorn entertainm...
Why ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Deserves Greater Acclaim
The 1990s gave us a lot of great films. From big studio releases like Silence of the Lambs, Candyman, and Jacob’s Ladder, to smaller, more obscure releases like Castle Freak, The Ugly, and Audition. I...
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...
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 have seen it usually spea...
Why Martin Remains Unparalleled in its Portrayal of Vampires
George Romero had stated a couple of times that Martin was what he felt to be the best, most complete and closest to his original vision of all his films. Yet, even now, it remains one of his most und...
10 Years After Its Release, Dead Snow Packs a Gory, Seriously Satisfying Punch
Dead Snow is the perfect movie for our times, which is kind of crazy considering it came out a decade ago this week. Those of us old enough to remember when N*zis were just a school subject, rather th...
Why Ghostbusters 2 is Actually Kind of Awesome
Ghostbusters 2 gets a lot of hate. I mean, it’s gotten hate for the past thirty years. And yeah, as you could tell by the title, I’m here to explain to you why Ghostbusters 2, the black sheep of the f...
White Horse Whisperer: Why Zombie’s Halloween II is (Almost) a Masterpiece
There aren’t many horror films that are more immediately divisive than Rob Zombie’s remakes of Halloween and Halloween II. Some people love them more than the original—I don’t agree, but I get that. F...
Panic at the Theater: How Demons Reimagined Meta Horror
In the 1980s, the horror genre experienced immense cultural backlash. Parents groups, religious groups, critics and especially censorship committees fought back against the genre as hard as they could...
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