*Keep up with our ongoing end of the decade coverage here* At some point, remakes developed a bad reputation, even though quite a few of the best movies ever made were just new versions of a story already made into a movie before. And quite a few of those classic remakes are horror films, like […]
If all goes according to plan (and really nothing has for the movie thus far…), Josh Boone‘s horror-superhero movie The New Mutants will finally be released by Disney/Fox on April 3, 2020, and Boone himself brings us the word this week that a new trailer is on the way. Boone posted over on Instagram today, […]
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the decade coverage here* Merging horror and comedy templates might be cinema’s greatest challenge. Tip the scales either way, risk driving away audiences who aren’t expecting a one-sided affair. Zombie outbreaks, household hauntings, even deadly children’s games can all benefit from comedic engagements so long as terror or […]
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the decade coverage here* Every decade has a certain set of horror movies that define it. That certain group of movies that hits the right tone, captures audiences perfectly and is the first thing that you think of when that particular time period comes up. For the 70s, […]
It Came From the ‘80s is a series that pays homage to the monstrous, deadly, and often slimy creatures that made the ‘80s such a fantastic decade in horror. Poor Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale). Being a teen is awkward enough, but then there are the added struggles of appeasing a girlfriend while trying not to make […]
Part of Full Moon’s “Deadly Ten” project, the iconic Puppet Master character Blade is getting his own spinoff solo film with Blade: The Iron Cross, headed our way in early 2020. In Blade: The Iron Cross, directed by John Lechago: “For decades the fans have been clamoring for it, and now Full Moon delivers with […]
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans […]
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* 2019 delivered a surplus of top-notch horror releases with all the bleak subject matter, memorable jolts and gory kills a genre fan could ask for. Yet some of the year’s scariest moments were located in completely unexpected places – like upbeat superhero romps, brightly […]
I love Christmas horror movies. The juxtaposition of lighthearted, wholesome family traditions with unbridled murder and mayhem can either be a powerful message about religion, consumerism and/or family values or, if that’s too tall an order, just a wacky series of ironic contradictions. At their best, Christmas horror movies bring out the subversive streak in […]
Gregory Jacobs‘ Wind Chill reminds us that Halloween isn’t the only holiday that can yield ghoulish results under the right conditions. When you get right down to it, Christmas has just the same potential for inspiring terror. Apart from snowy scares and pensive plot twists, this 2007 haunter proves that beneath a veil of pure […]