Tigers Are Not Afraid is the best thing I saw at Fantasia last year, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. Its decayed Gothic beauty, the use of a cartel as its supernatural force, its monkey's paw twist on the power of wishes, and...
"Good night, Andy." That's it. That's all we get out of Mark Hamill (at the very end of the trailer, of course) after this stupidly long succession of teases following the announcement that he would be voicing the serial-killing doll for t...
Our boy Chuck is having a weird time right now. With an upcoming remake and still a TV series following the original exploits of the serial killer-possessed slasher doll, he's torn between two worlds as it were. And as much as I might hate ...
Netflix just unveiled the trailer for what looks to be a very wild bit of horror coming out this spring. Above is certainly more a minute-and-a-half long collage of discordant images of panic, screams, gross stuff, and skewed angles than a...
Cheap and quick horror is on the rise for studios as Blumhouse is paving a way to be profitable without even trying, and New Line is right behind them with their slew of Conjuring spin-offs. The Curse of La Llorona isn't one of th...
Not to be outdone by Amazon with Guava Island, Netflix has its own surprise release for this weekend with Thriller, a Blumhouse-produced slasher, dropping onto the streaming giant this Sunday. The premise is your typical slasher fare with C...
It's that time of the year again folks! It's getting warmer outside, the flowers are blooming, and schools are getting ready to be let out, flooding the world once more with the gremlins know as "children" and the abominations we know as "t...
Adaptation is a tough thing to nail. You can jump from one medium to another of course, but it feels like making the leap to the movies is the final destination for a lot of original works. You don’t hear of many video games or comic ...
The Travel Channel is snapping up our horror icons one-by-one and enlisting them for spooky documentary shows, and oh how I wish I still had cable. What package do you even need to get the Travel Channel? Probably an expensive one. Followin...
I get this uncanny feeling when I realize that American Horror Story has been running for nine seasons, now. Much like The Walking Dead, it remains in this sort of stasis from the moment I stopped watching it until now, and I have a hard ti...
I'm getting some real Twin Peaks vibes off this one. Maybe it's just the shot of a burning photograph, but there's some eerie horror at play in this trailer for season one of Netflix's Chambers. It starts off a bit hokey for my tastes with...
Rottentail chokes a man using Easter egg-shaped turds that he "laid" himself. An army general takes a male-enhancement potion before being called to duty and patrols bloody halls of corpses and limbs with a full erection. When Rottentail ki...
Sometimes you see a movie that speaks to who you are at your core, a movie so perfectly in touch with your insides that you have trouble imagining that it's not an animated brain scan of your very subconscious--sometimes that includes a gi...
With both an upcoming buddy-cop and a cartoonishly-big-guy-teams-up-with-a-child movie on the docket for WWE star Dave Bautista, I'd say it's fair to call it: the man's a bonafide action superstar. He's been great since The Man with the Iro...
It seems that with his recent death, Charles Manson has come back into vogue among purveyors of the horrific aspects of the human psyche. I for one never got the fascination as he was nothing more than a psychopathic racist who used drugs a...
The opening images of Emma Tammi’s The Wind set up the dread to come. Outside of a home on the frontier, two men wait. It is windswept and desolate and wordless, the light a cold, foreboding pre-dawn blue. A woman emerges in white, co...
Easter-themed horror movies are hard to come by. Honestly, I'm drawing a blank beyond Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! That's a crying shame, as there should be a laundry list of horror movies released for every holiday. Alas, Rottentail is just ...
We are smack-dab in the middle of the cinematic second coming of Stephen King. The man's work already hit its heyday decades ago when horror film began taking off in the 80s and his books were quickly adapted into a host of classic (and not...
The Conjuring, the only successful shared universe outside of Marvel, has slated its third official entry for a September 11, 2020 release. This gives us over a year to wait and wonder what sort of spooky ghoul (word is it'll be werewolves)...
Ari Aster's follow up to Hereditary has shifted its release from August 9 to July 3, just in time for you to celebrate the independence of our great United States of America with colorful blasts of explosive fear-diarrhea. Midsommar follows...
Blumhouse has been Hollywood's horror cash darling ever since Paranormal Activity, but James Wan and his Atomic Monster company have churned out gangbuster hits too within their Conjuring Universe. Starting with the The Conjuring, which ma...
I think, instead of diving deep into the remake of Pet Semetary here, I'll just talk about how damn creepy the original is and all thanks to Miko Hughes is as a child actor. I don't even remember that many details about the original, b...
Usually when you see a long list of famous people doing random cameos in a film you know exactly what you're in for: a romantic comedy based around a holiday. Not, however, in this case. No, despite the rom-com style marketing for The Dead...
Chucky has been around for what seems like forever, I remember many a night as a wee child having trouble sleeping because I couldn't stop thinking that Chucky had conspired with my toys to kill me in my sleep. Ever since the original 1988 ...
Fine, The Silence is based on a book that was written well before A Quite Place ever came out, but it's pretty clear what Netflix is going for here. The streamer wants another horror hit after Bird Box did so well, and why n...
Today we got a double whammy of looks at the upcoming adaptation of everyone's favorite childhood horror book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The first bit was the poster that came out and I gotta say they really undersold this one. Ins...
Alien is about to turn 40, and heaven forbid we miss an anniversary these days without an opportunity to market and sell more Blu-rays and digital copies. However, 20th Century Fox Disney actually came up with something cool this ...
A few years ago we were all laughing our asses off with Jordan Peele on Key and Peele, but since the director hit us with the bombshell of perfectly-paced horror/social commentary that was Get Out the world has been salivating to see w...
Nostalgia-baiting is something I'm not too familiar with. I'm not fond of superheroes, and I wasn't alive in the 80's, so I figured myself to be pretty well nostalgia-proof when it comes to the film industry. I can't be manipulated. I can't...
Book of Monsters is the first Kickstarter funded film I've seen. This one billed itself as the horror movie where YOU could choose the monsters -- a novel enough idea in which backers could choose from six categories: The monsters, a charac...
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be returning soon for what looks to be a super violent half-season. Falling in love with her dark powers, getting all sexy, and kicking ass at school, Sabrina is starting to become the famed witch th...
Body at Brighton Rock was one of the more interesting films I saw at SXSW in that it wasn't perfect but what it tried to do was too interesting not to watch. It has landed its first trailer, which actually reflects the film's tone and...
Enter our contest for a Blu-ray copy of The Greasy Strangler. I don't have many words for this one, so just play along with me, here. I've got a Blu-ray copy of The Greasy Strangler. Why? I don't know. I'm just plain broken, I gue...
In 1992, an aspiring filmmaker spent a month as a lab rat in exchange for a $7,000 paycheck. He flipped that check into El Mariachi and from there Robert Rodriguez’s career took off. Now, 25 years since the film’s rele...
If one thing's going to strike you straight off the bat with Starfish, it's going to be that this movie is perhaps too hip for its own good. You got cassettes, rotary phones, plaid shirts, old movie theater tickets, tea, Victorian-era furni...
I love a good horror/comedy mashup like Porno, which debuted at SXSW this year, and when you splatter the screen with gore I'll probably love it even more. Take my glowing review of Snatchers, which also debuted at SXSW, as proof if you nee...
I think it's safe to say that so far the upcoming video game adaptation, DOOM: ANNIHILATION has opened its own little portal to hell (har har), since at the time of writing it sits at 300 likes to over 3,000 dislikes on YouTube. This is ex...
There's no doubt Nicolas Cage has been in some weird stuff, and after Between Worlds it looks like he's just getting weirder and weirder. A glance ahead has him starring in Primal, a movie where a big game hunter (for zoos?) is on a shippin...
Body at Brighton Rock is a unique horror film in that nearly nothing actually horrific happens in it. And yet, the film can be terrifying to an extreme. A movie that plays more on fear than it does on actual scares is a rare bird, but ...
I've seen one horror movie already this SXSW that used the genre to discuss deeper issues, but Us and Snatchers take very different directions in how they do this. That's pretty evident from the trailer below but it was an interes...
