A lesson that should be unnecessary, but here I am, teaching it anyway. Continue reading
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“Bill Posley’s Black Slasher ‘Bitch Ass’ Is as Fun as Its Title”
A good-ass review of a bitch-ass movie. (Bitchin’ ass, I mean.) Continue reading
“The Best Slasher Films Ever Made”
I felt like making friends and getting positive comments, so I decided to do a ranking list. Continue reading
“‘The Last Matinee’s Seedy Slasher Spills Guts and Is Sharper than It Seems”
A good movie that reminds us maybe the movies aren’t always the safest place to be, especially when a killer is killing people in the audience dead. Continue reading
“The 50 Best Slasher Movies of All Time”
It’s been so long since I put together my big blurb contribution for Paste Magazine‘s list of the 50 best slasher movies of all time (of all time!) that I actually…forgot we hadn’t yet published it. But we hadn’t! And now we have! I wrote about Tenebrae, the Dario Argento meta classic, and you’ll also see re-ups … Continue reading
Is the Slasher Movie Dying?
Friday the 13th only rolls around so often; in the case of 2017, “so often” means “twice,” and we’ll stick to that pattern until Donald Trump (or, who knows, maybe Mike Pence) gets voted the fuck out of office. But how cool is it that our second Friday the 13th this year happens to fall … Continue reading
“Gory Santa Horror Is a ‘Christmas Bloody Christmas’ Miracle”
If you’re still in the post-holiday doldrums, here, have a Santa Claus slasher movie to wash away your depression. Continue reading
“Born To Fight: Final Girls Ready To Slash Back”
Or bludgeon back, or stab back, or decapitate back. Basically, any kind of [violent verb] back they can sneak in. Continue reading
A Fantastic Toronto Festival Round-Up
Who needs a clever title when you can just get right down to business? Also, happy November. Continue reading
“No Power Compels the Tepid ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’ Adaptation”
Friends don’t let friends get their bodies taken over by evil spirits, and they also don’t let them make movies as bad as this one. Continue reading
“With ‘Pearl,’ A24 Perfects Its First Horror Franchise”
For your consideration: Mia Goth, smiling like if she doesn’t, her face will crack apart. Continue reading
“America, the Land of ‘Random Acts of Violence'”
A slasher, but a slasher about *America*. Continue reading
“Share ‘Banana Split’ with a Bestie”
A sweet-natured teen comedy about girlfriends, not a crappy slasher flick about killer robots. Continue reading
“The Surprising Moments of ‘Happy Death Day 2U'”
How do you make a sequel to a slasher-fied “Groundhog Day”? Watch “Happy Death Day 2U” to find out. How do you make a sequel to THAT? Well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Continue reading
“How Netflix’s ‘Polar’ Differs From The Comics”
Brrr! Is it chilly in here, or is it just Mads Mikkelsen on a killing spree that’d put most slasher all-time body counts to shame? (It’s chilly in here. It’s January. But Mikkelsen still rocks.) Continue reading
Be Reel Podcast: “The Horror of John Carpenter”
On episode 107 of the great, wonderful, and very good Be Reel podcast, hosted by the splendiferous Chance Solem-Pfeifer, we talked Halloween. And the Halloween franchise. And John Carpenter’s career as a whole. And “elevated” horror, a buzz phrase that nearly makes me Hulk Out™, because boy is it just the worst buzz phrase. It’s so bad I might … Continue reading
Review: Final Girl, 2015, dir. Tyler Shields
“Have you ever sat through a movie so ponderous and pointless that you felt the minutes ticking by as your patience slowly dwindled to zero? That’s more or less the experience of watching Tyler Shields’ immeasurably boringFinal Girl, a film injudiciously stitched together out of so many retread genre tropes that they wind up leeching … Continue reading
Review: Good People, 2014, dir. Henrik Ruben Ganz
“Stealing wads of pelf from a dead man seems like a victimless crime, unless you’re a character in a gangster yarn. Then, you’re just plain old taking your life into your hands. We’re talking about what’s arguably the most amoral genre of all time, a mode of storytelling that thrives on shades of grey (and … Continue reading
Review: Hitchcock, 2012, dir. Sacha Gervasi
Watching Hitchcock you may find yourself wondering, often, what Alfred Hitchcock himself would think of Sacha Gervasi’s efforts to celebrate his life and contributions to cinema. If Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of the man tells us anything about him, his likeliest reaction might well be a cutting remark spoken while gazing down his nose at Gervasi’s film. Hitchcock commemorates the man’s … Continue reading
Review: Cabin in the Woods, 2012, dir. Drew Goddard
With Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon have crafted the new yardstick by which all horror films released in its wake will be judged. That analogy’s somewhat mild and unseasoned. More accurately, they’ve saturation bombed the genre with barb-filled ordnance wrapped up in one enormous love letter, launching a payload containing their affections … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 