“The Biggest Sin You Can Commit In Horror Movies Is Being Serious”

There are so, so many things you should not do if you are in a horror movie, but above all else don’t look at the thing you shouldn’t look at. Continue reading →

“‘Come Play’: Gillian Jacobs Stars In A ‘Babadook’ Cousin With ‘Conjuring’ Aesthetics”

Man, social media horror shorts are a real breeding ground for future feature-length adaptations, eh? Continue reading →

“The New Wave Of Horror Movies Suggest We Should Embrace Our Terrifying Reality”

The new wave, but also the old wave, because horror’s told us for years that it’s sometimes better to learn to love the monster. Continue reading →

“In Pop Culture, ‘The Babadook’ Is An Invasive Species”

You really, genuinely, legitimately cannot get rid of the Babadook, not as long as SNL and “The Magicians” keep making jokes about it. Continue reading →

“The 100 Best Movies Of The 2010s”

100 movies. How many have you seen? None? A few? Enough? Because let me tell you, that’s a whole lot of movies. Continue reading →

“The Best Horror Movies of the 2010s”

The decade ain’t over ’til the ball drops, but eh, close enough in Internet years; let’s all get the pants scared off our persons. Continue reading →

Review: The Nightingale, 2019, dir. Jennifer Kent

A movie about the most vengeful bird of all! Also, genocide and sexual violence. Continue reading →

Review: The Hole in the Ground, 2019, dir. Lee Cronin

Sometimes you pay (literally, you, not me) to see a movie, and you get exactly what the title promises. Take “The Hole in the Ground.” It’s about a hole. In the ground. Boom, value. Continue reading →

The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time

Picking 100 movies to represent the all-timers of their category is a thankless and impossible task; even if you hit all the major titles needed to give the list gravitas, you’re going to end up leaving out titles that one person might think are essential, or another person will take exception to the ordering, or … Continue reading →

10 Movie Monsters That Will Give You Nightmares

“Who doesn’t like a good movie monster? Whether it’s Count Orlok from Nosferatu or the Rhedosaurus from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, cinema has a monster flick out there to suit your tastes. Maybe you’re a fan of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion skeletons, or perhaps the granddaddy of all kaiju, Godzilla. But there are movie monsters, … Continue reading →

For Your (Re)Consideration

“Another year, another Academy Awards ceremony. Funny, isn’t it, how every three hundred and sixty five days we go through the same ritualized process of spurning the Oscars and then gluing ourselves to the television the day they air; we like to pretend that we’re above all the pomp and circumstance, but for better or … Continue reading →

Crump’s Top Ten Of 2014

It’s December 31st, the last day of the year, and that means it’s time for me to finally weigh in on my top ten movies of 2014, even though I have already done so twice in critics voting. Top ten lists are always a tricky thing. They’re alive. They breathe, they grow, they evolve; I … Continue reading →

Review: The Babadook, 2014, dir. Jennifer Kent

“Classifying Jennifer Kent’s feature debut, The Babadook, is tricky. Ostensibly this is a horror film—freaky stuff happens on an escalating scale, so qualifying Kent’s tale of a single mother’s fractious relationship with her young son with genre tags seems like a perfectly logical move. But The Babadook is so layered, so complex and just so … Continue reading →