I'll be damned. Here's a teen-focused horror film that actually looks good. The Dark, a debut from Justin P. Lange captures strong Gothic tones with a human core, if the trailer is anything to go by. Will it devolve into over-emotional tee...
Citizens rejoice! October is right around the corner and that means a slew of cheesy horror movies coming out that cost about 4 nickels and a button to make. That's not to say they can't be good, but its definitely a "throw it on a wall an...
From writer and director Gareth Evans of The Raid, the first trailer for Netflix's Apostle certainly isn't wanting for violence. We have giant drills to bore into skulls and spiked rolling pins to eat up hands worse than a garbage disposal...
From the opening animated sequence of ghoulish color and synth rhythm to the closing pizza commercial, Slice wears its 80's inspirations emblazoned on the back of its red delivery jacket. It's self-aware and unafraid to be ridiculous, and b...
With a trailer that promised surreal, neon-lit landscapes as a backdrop to an unhinged spree of violent revenge, I marked Mandy as the one movie I needed to experience no matter what this year. I had seen Beyond the Black Rainbow almost a d...
Of all the 80/90s horror icons Candyman might have been the most legitimately scary. While the likes of Freddy and Jason were simply pouring blood across the screen Candyman induced actual nightmares. Anyone who was a kid back that had...
Have we done a zombie musical before? It's hard to keep track, anymore. Either way, this one takes place during Christmas, and that certainly makes it very original and cool. I'm sure the Christmas season has made us all want to die in one...
The worst kind of low-budget genre film is the type that fails to try anything new, that lacks any sort of creative hook or artistic flair. In an age where the cheapest of streaming services overflow with high-quality work, being nothing mo...
This whole Conjuring universe is getting a little out of control, but I suppose if they keep on making money why not keep on making them. They're also all relatively good in quality (relative to the vast majority of bad horror films ou...
From its eye-catching classic poster, to its high-noon soundtrack and a sweeping vista, Let the Corpses Tan gives the impression of a modern twist to the spaghetti western. Though this French interpretation of an Italian interpretation of a...
Apocalypse Rising is such a banal, generic title. It’s a word combination that filters straight to the back of your mind. It sounds so tedious and lackluster that you would wonder why anyone made it and if anyone would be dumb enough ...
Family get togethers suck. There's no doubt about it. It's only that much worse when we have to introduce our girlfriend to our racist, news-obsessed, paranoid dad. We've all been there. Add to that some sort of epidemic, an extreme lockdo...
A new trailer for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake sets to detail the witches that bring pain and torment through the world, known as the Three Mothers. As the Mother of Sighs, Suspiriorum, Tilda Swinton exudes a sort of dangerous mystici...
When it comes to horror, the 80's are becoming as popular as pizza. Since around 2010, works inspired by the lighting, music, atmosphere, and tone of genre films of that decade have been churned out at a near constant rate. We got You're N...
In case you didn't notice, Slender Man came out last week and was an unmitigated disaster. It wasn't scary at all and it was frankly just a slog to get through. Nothing worked in it, and if you're at all curious to see it and...
The Puppet Master series has been consistently running for almost 30 years. With The Littlest Reich, there are now 12 films to the slasher franchise. And with that many sequels comes a precipitous drop in quality and budget down to one film...
It's very possible that you hadn't heard -- considering that Chucky isn't on very many people's daily radar and it's been delayed years -- that MGM is planning to reboot the Chucky franchise without creator Don Mancini and pr...
Gaspar Noe, the man behind Irreversible and Enter the Void has made a dance movie. With two extremely sexual and horrifying works to his name already, it doesn't look like he's prepared to tone it down just yet. And god bless him for it. T...
Slender Man hasn't been relevant in internet culture for years. Remember how back in 2012 Slender Man was all of the rage? Youtubers were going nuts over Slender: The Eight Pages, there were a bunch of fan games, an...
Evil Dead (2013) is one of my favorite movies. Like, seriously, top-three material. The visuals are gruesome and stunning, the performances are strong and unhinged, and it does exactly what a remake should do by honoring the original w...
A mythic force is spiriting people away in a rundown Mexican town, leaving droves of abandoned children to cluster together and wander the streets themselves. This force is responsible for the disappearance of 10-year-old Estrella's (Paola ...
Tokyo Vampire Hotel has a scene in which a legless Geisha vampire who feeds people to the hotel through her vagina laughs maniacally as a fountain of blood streams from an open wound into her mouth and heavy metal music pulses and pounds in...
Let's get this out of the way right now: If you're a little girl alone in a creepy hotel at night, whatever you do, don't enter room 666. Age shouldn't even matter. Just don't do it. Parents need to teach their children some common sense. I...
(This review was originally published as part of Flixist SXSW 2018 coverage.) Blumhouse is on a roll right now. They're making some of the biggest hits in horror, and, of course just pulled in an Academy Award nomination for Get Out.&n...
SDCC is in full swing right now and that doesn't just mean comic book movies, it means horror movies... evidently. It basically means everything ever at this point. And that's why Annabelle 3 was confirmed there last night with series ...
Chained for Life wastes no time introducing its main topic. A quote crawls the screen expressing that actors have to be beautiful, because being beautiful allows them to play anything. Soon, we see our beautiful actress, Mabel (Jess Weixler...
Being totally honest here, the first Goosebumps movies was more fun than it had any right to be. I'm not sure that I'd go as far as to say it was truly good, but I actually thought they did something interesting with it. Now the trailer wi...
The Fantasia International Film Festival will be kicking off its 22nd iteration from July 12 through August 2 this year in Montreal, and it's packed with the strange and wonderful. I’m a big fan of the strange and wonderful, so I&rsqu...
Of all the contrived horror franchises, The Purge series of films is the most perplexing to me. Series like Insidious or Saw are for the most part, poorly written excuses for a nightmare to emerge onscreen. These films don’t always ...
There's a moment in Sunset Society in which a vampire is about to have sex with a girl. The second he opens his jeans fog rolls out. At first you think it's his own personal penis fog, but soon the dude turns completely into fog, and thi...
I never read The House with the Clock in its Walls when I was kid, but I vividly remember its cover for some reason. It has the same "scarier than the actual book" feel as those illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell ...
Mandy, the second feature from director Panos Cosmatos, has just released its first trailer, and it is a spectacular showing of surreal horror and violence. The plot takes place in 1983 and shows Red (Nicolas Cage) work to slaughter his wa...
Ash vs. Evil Dead is over, and it's not coming back. Bruce Campbell has officially hung up his chainsaw, no network decided to rescue the show, and hope has shuttered on the idea of this iteration of the franchise continuing. And as the fin...
The new red band trailer for Shane Black's The Predator has all the blood and cursing you could ask for--in that it doesn't have much blood and cursing at all. What it does have, however, is the titular Predator facing off against an even ...
Warner Bros. and Robert Zemeckis are in final negotiations for him to direct a remake of Roald Dhal's The Witches. This is meant to be a more direct adaptation of the book in which a boy returns to England with his grandmother, an ex witcho...
You gotta hand it to James Wan and the other producers behind The Conjuring, they took a moderately successful horror film and turned it into a franchise that could easily last an eternity. As long as the Warrens keep on adding creepy thin...
From looking at Jurassic Games, you might assume that this is just some knockoff of another Jurassic film franchise meant to profit off confusion and association without any regard for being a good movie in any way shape or form. You'll tur...
You can bet that even a mildly successful horror film will spawn a glut of sequels. Even when all 9 of those sequels and reboots fail to live up to the original, another sequel always seems in the pipelines. It’s been 4 decades si...
Hereditary had so much buzz coming out of festival season that I was chomping at my horror bit to get into theaters and see it. I'm not sure I was more excited to see a single film at SXSW this year (until the surprise announcement of&...
Amazon Studios has just released the first official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming Suspiria remake, and it actually looks pretty good! Suspiria, as a classic of supernatural horror, has few equals in the genre. It made Dario Argent...
