During the height of Satanic Panic in the ‘80s, heavy metal became enemy number one by evangelicals. It was widespread fear and belief that the music genre was to blame for luring wayward teens to Satan’s door. It’s with this in mind that We Summon the Darkness crafts a throwback midnight movie full of well-rendered […]
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 […]
The documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street will be premiering at Fantastic Fest this weekend, telling the story of Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge star Mark Patton. The doc invites fans “not only to delight in the batshit uniqueness of NOES2, but also asks them to reckon with what it means […]
Every corpse tells a story. Clancy Brown plays the creepy host in Ryan Spindell‘s upcoming horror anthology film The Mortuary Collection, set to world premiere at Fantastic Fest later this month. In the horror anthology, wherein each tale is set in a different decade: A young girl enters a secret room in a mortuary and […]
Genre cinema can come from the strangest of places. One of the biggest surprises of TIFF this year was finding genre gems outside the Midnight Madness program, like the movies of the Contemporary World Cinema. These are mostly movies that dabble in genre without going fully going into the extreme. One of the best examples […]
What would happen if Aaron Sorkin – he of The West Wing – wrote a period drama/paranoid alien conspiracy thriller? You would have The Vast of Night, a late 50s-set film about a pair of intrepid teen reporters who stumble upon an otherworldly presence in their small town on the night of a big basketball […]
Rob Zombie is back and he’s bringing his homicidal Firefly Family with him in 3 From Hell, debuting this week in theaters via Fathom. That’s a pretty neat trick, considering that all those characters died in a hail of gunfire at the end of their last film, The Devil’s Rejects, way back in 2005. In a new interview […]
As of this month, Rob Zombie has turned his 2003 horror hit House of 1,000 Corpses into a full-fledged horror trilogy. The story of the homicidally maniacal Firefly Family, first introduced as the purveyor of roadside attractions, mutated into an ultraviolent neo-western with The Devil’s Rejects, and into a prison break thriller with next week’s 3 From Hell. But […]
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects artists, as well as advances in technology. Artists like Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Tom Savini, Stan Winston, and countless others delivered groundbreaking, mind-blowing practical […]
When it was released back in 1994, Tammy and the T-Rex had a PG-13 rating attached to it, but what many didn’t know at the time was that it was originally conceived as a gory, rated “R” affair. For the first time ever, the newly unearthed “gore cut” of the film was recently screened at Cinepocalypse, and […]