“In ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow,’ Being a Good Guy Is a Beast of a Job”

It’s hard being a good cop in America’s werewolf country, and I guess we can just leave that chad hanging there and walk away. Continue reading →

“Dan Martin on Prosthetics, Props and Puppets in Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor'”

A sterling example of getting what you pay for: A movie about possession that’s also named after possession. Continue reading →

“‘Scare Me’ Opens the Halloween Season with Laughs and Gasps”

I dare ya, take your best shot, just TRY and oh man yup that’s scary, nevermind Continue reading →

“Wil Wheaton Is the Worst Friend Ever in ‘Rent-A-Pal'”

I have an old anecdote about Wil Wheaton that has stuck with me for over a decade, buckle up. Continue reading →

“Run Away from ‘Antebellum’ as Fast as You Can”

Hoooooo boy I did not like this bullshit at all. Continue reading →

“America, the Land of ‘Random Acts of Violence'”

A slasher, but a slasher about *America*. Continue reading →

“‘Peninsula’: ‘Train To Busan’ Sequel Expands The Scale & Emotional Stakes Of The Zombie Franchise”

Y’know, a zombie invasion at this point in the year would just be par for the course, and also maybe preferable to reality. Continue reading →

“Scream Factory’s New ‘The Kiss of the Vampire’ Blu-Ray Revisits a Morbid, Kinky Classic”

It’s more of a bite than a kiss, but when the end result is you become a bloodsucking fiend, who’s keeping count? Continue reading →

“Hitch a Slimy, Slithering Ride with ‘Sputnik'”

Insert “in Soviet Russia” joke here. Continue reading →

“‘Skin Walker’ Stumbles Over Too Many Psychological Tropes”

I was surprised to learn how many movies exist with a variation on this title. It’s…more than one. Continue reading →

“‘She Dies Tomorrow’ and Maybe We Will Too”

Look, don’t get all mad at me, it’s literally true. Continue reading →

“Romola Garai’s ‘Amulet’ Needs a Polish”

Horror is so elevated that I’m not sure how anyone can lift it any higher without taking it through the ozone layer and sucking all the life out of the genre. Continue reading →

“Natalie Erika James Discusses the Horror of Inescapable Truths in ‘Relic'”

I think Peter Steele said it best when he sang “Everything Dies.” Continue reading →

“Visit ‘The Beach House’ at Your Own Peril”

Not THAT “The Beach House.” This one was made for Shudder, not for Hallmark. Continue reading →

“You Won’t Forget ‘The Wretched'”

Not a Magic: The Gathering reference or a Nine Inch Nails reference, and mercifully not even a reference to 1980s kids-versus-the-monsters movies. Continue reading →

“10 Horror Sequels That Are Better Than The Originals”

The Bride rejects Frankenstein while a bunch of evil dead take a few wrong turns on a Ouija board. It’s a hell-raising VHS nightmare. Continue reading →

“‘We Summon the Darkness’ and We Have Fun Doing It”

But who is “we,” and why are we-they summoning any darkness at all? That’s the question. Continue reading →

“Urine for Bad News with ‘The Grudge'”

Hey, I’m just as shocked as you are that they went with my suggested headline, but life’s just full of surprises. Continue reading →

“No Need to Panic: Satanic Killers In Movies Just Aren’t That Bright”

When Will Forte is the bad guy in a horror movie, you know he’s going to play that bad guy to the stupidest hilt possible. And he’ll also be great. Continue reading →

“‘Come to Daddy’ For Violence, Humor And A Lesson In Male Abandonment Issues”

Spoiler alert: Don’t actually come to daddy, he’s going to try to kill you with a meat cleaver. It’s not his fault; he’s very, very drunk, and he’s also Stephen McHattie. (Or IS HE?!) Continue reading →