Perhaps the only thing more unstoppable than a horror movie villain is a horror movie sequel.? Since 1935?s The Bride of Frankenstein, Hollywood has proven that you can?t contain evil in only ninety minutes of celluloid.? But out of the hundreds of sequels, only a handful rival their source material.? Still, every now and then,…
Kevin Bacon leads an eclectic but effective cast in Blumhouse Productions/Chapter One Films? thriller, The Darkness, a spooky (if not overly scary or original) allegorical yarn that speaks to the power of faith and forgiveness. Though not as unnerving as some of its contemporaries, The Darkness blends Native American spiritual folklore with creepy hands-from-outta-the-wall special…
Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz. For this writer, no horror scribe can touch Richard Matheson.? From his prolific screenwriting for The Twilight Zone (16 episodes, including the most popular, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”) to his short stories (“Steel,” “Button, Button” and “The Edge”–one of the most holy-crap-drop-the-book endings ever) and novels (“A Stir of…
‘You ever have that one movie that comes so highly recommended and you go into it with such high expectations and a half hour in, you wonder if you’d heard incorrectly and perhaps mistaken it for an entirely different film? ? Yeah. ?Deadgirl is kinda like that. ? Proving that strokes truly are different amongst…
Kids today.? When they aren’t gauging their earlobes big enough to smuggle a dinner plate or tattooing every available square inch of cutaneous real estate, they’re transforming into disfigured little hellions and braining you with a meat tenderizer. Or at least they were in 1979, back when director David Cronenberg was a lot younger but…
Finding faith-professing screenwriters in Hollywood is tantamount to discovering a four-leaf clover.? Locate a pair of the same God-fearing ilk who write horror and happen to be twin brothers, and you?ve wandered into unicorn territory.? But take our word for it, they do exist. ?And chances are you?ve seen their work…and likely gotten your pants…
There used to be a time when ghosts weren’t so touchy-feely. ?Barring Scooby and Shaggy’s weekly paranormal impostors, ghosts, for the most part, seemed rather harmless. ?Sure, they were like creepsville, daddy-o and sometimes they may have even bumped you around in the night (think 13 Ghosts, or the Vincent Price classic, Tales of Terror),…
If you’ve ever really wanted to create a movie, but wondered if you had the chops; if you’ve ever doubted your ability or means or just figured your idea was a little too over the top–go watch Night of the Creeps. And be inspired. ? Much like its ancestral stinkers Plan 9 From Outer Space…
It?s one of the biggest mysteries about Friday the 13th (no, not how in God?s name did they ever decide to make eleven sequels): why didn?t they call it Mother?s Day?? There?s only one passing reference to the date in the film, and that?s because writer/director/producer Sean S. Cunningham remembered at the last second that…
Who knew the dearly departed would be so well put together? Watch just about any horror movie and you’ll see–regardless of the severity of their demise, ghosts almost always look like they just left church or a runway shoot.? This week’s psychological shocker, Backtrack, follows suit (and tie).? It’s chock full of phantoms and just…
