When Alice is Lola, she’s fearless – normally a shy girl-next-door type, when taking on her cam girl persona, it’s like she finally becomes the cute and giggly confident little queen she al...
The leader of a violent and strictly loyal cult, “She” rules her flock with an iron fist. No one would dare stray from the path of pain, for only through purity and self-punishment can one co...
It comes as no surprise that the latest effort from Timo Tjahjanto is yet another bare-knuckle brawl masterpiece. The man who brought us such gems as Killers, Headshot, and the V/H/S/2 segment �...
Evan (Seann William Scott) is your typical family man – devoted father, loving husband, hard worker, and occasional murderer of bad parents. A high school guidance counselor, his affection for ...
Do you support your local Purge? Are you a real patriotic American? Are you in favor of all the good that The Purge does? These are the questions your hometown politician will be asking, so make ...
An elegant woman dressed entirely in black slowly saunters into a blood-streaked room, her tall heels clicking the path to destruction every step of the way. She bends down, picks up a small tedd...
If Sam Raimi and Yoshihiro Nishimura were to have a cursed Wiccan baby, it might look something like Yudai Yamaguchi’s Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch. This should make sense to those famili...
Rusty Cundieff is back, and he means business. In 1995, writer/director Cundieff unleashed upon the world a powerful and provocative horror anthology film called Tales From the Hood, which serves...
If people are like houses, then a haunted estate is merely a person who has yet to deal with the ghost that dwells inside them. Whether it be the loss of a loved one, the redundantly toxic patter...
Xavier Gens first caught my eye back in 2012 with his ABCs of Death segment “X is for XXL” – a surprisingly poignant commentary on skewed societal norms and the way in which the pressure to...
If you were to take one part Coen Brothers, two parts Robert Altman, add one part Paul Thomas Anderson, sprinkle in a touch of old Hollywood Humphrey Bogart, and mix it all together with a dash o...
A24 has come to be a household name that you can trust. Whether it be The Florida Project, First Reformed, American Honey, 20th Century Women, or Moonlight, if you’re a fan of indie genre film ...
Everyone has sinister fantasies. Quiet secrets and inner desires of being a witch, casting spells – there’s a little devil in us all. We all crave power, covet things we shouldn’t want, and...
Just when you thought James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s wildly powerful Saw universe couldn’t grow any larger, a new show-stopping event steps up to bat – The Official Saw Escape Room in Las V...
Warning: many spoilers follow. “We’ve got a shotgun, a chainsaw, a book, and a car – not much else we need to tell Ash’s story,” Bruce Campbell pauses and smiles, proud, as he should be...
As both a woman and a longtime horror fan, I can’t help but notice a trend in filmmaking – primarily men direct genre movies. Now, advancements have certainly been made, with delightful littl...
It’s no easy feat fitting in with the world of James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Two men who have become masters at their genre have only ever relied on each other when it comes to getting the job ...
Leigh Whannell has been changing the game ever since he walked on the scene in 2003. The creator of both the Saw series and the Insidious franchise, it seems that whenever the man puts pen to pap...
Anyone who is proud to call his or herself has undoubtedly heard of Lin Shaye – she’s one of our queens. My earliest memory of her is as Nancy’s school teacher in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare...
There’s no evil spirit that demonologist Elise Rainier can’t conquer. Be they dark entities which seek possession, atrophied souls clinging to the realm of the living, or grin-ingrained ghost...
The annual holy day is upon us, and you know what that means – binging lots and lots of horror movies. With so many dozens of different channels and physical media and streaming services out th...
It takes a special kind of movie to make Michael Fassbender look like a bad actor, but somehow, The Snowman accomplishes that feat. Perhaps one of the greatest working actors of our generation, F...
Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) has never been the sweetest girl in school. After losing her mom three years prior, Tree retreated back into more surfaced territory, submerging herself in the shallo...
Spooky stories about goblins and ghosts have existed for as long as mankind has been able to gather ‘round a campfire and tell tall tales about what lies hidden in the shadows at night, but hor...
In 1922, Wilfred James (Thomas Jane) murdered his wife (Molly Parker). The mother of his only son, Henry (Dylan Schmid), his wife Arlette didn’t necessarily have it coming, per say, she just go...
Applecart is one of those movies that by all means seems like it would be a success. Conjuring-universe veteran Joseph Bishara composed the score for the film, first-time writer/director Brad Bar...
Sometimes the most dangerous man in the room is the one with a moral compass. All Bradley Thomas wanted to do was to maintain his job as an auto mechanic, come home to his loving wife, and find t...
On Friday, September 15th, I was fortunate enough to attend Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights on behalf of Bloody Disgusting in Los Angeles, California. During my visit, I witnessed a Stephen...
Man is the most dangerous monster. Demons possess and trick their hosts into committing stigmata upon themselves, vampires suck their victims dry and pick their teeth clean with their bones, and ...
It’s been a long time since the Bayou Butcher slugged his hatchet through the marshes of this spooky Louisiana territory, but make no mistake – this is his swamp, and if you listen real hard,...
Tommy Wirkola, the man who brought us such genre gems as Dead Snow and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, is back with a brand new Netflix sci-fi thriller called What Happened to Monday, starring ...
Aside from his latest film What Happened to Monday hitting Netflix today, Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola says he’s been busy the past six months working on a variety of projects – mainly, p...
There is something utterly terrifying about a small-minded man with an inferiority complex. You never know what he might do next. That is, you never know what he might do next until that one drea...
A beaten and bloodied man stumbles out of a shack in the middle of the woods just before dawn. Limping, he stumbles into the truck out front and locks himself inside. Suddenly, a terrifying facel...
“I watched the miniseries,” recalls actor Bill Skarsgard about the original 1990 It adaptation. “I did it during the casting process before I booked the job, but I watched the whole thing, ...
In the dark dreary depths of the fictional city of Derry, Maine, down in the infested sewers of this small town sanctuary, resides a wicked ancestral being, on the prowl for blood, and hungry for...
The people call him a hero – El Monstruo, masked avenger, son of El Monstruo, renowned defender, and proud luchador. The legend of his legacy extends back for centuries. They say if you pray to...
This is how all love stories should end – not with a whimper, but with a sword fight to the death that takes you crashing out of a window and soaring down the side of a building as cut glass sp...
There’s no room for dreamers in Trump’s America. No time for artists with a message to send to their fellow peers. Life is short, the wage gap is ever expanding, and an angry, highly uneducat...
Have you ever fantasized about killing your lover? Ever played out the scenario in your head where you take your own life? Ever wished for something so badly – or dreaded something so immensely...
Be careful what you wish for – that’s what they say, isn’t it? It’s not wise to spoil yourself with selfish gifts. People should appreciate what they already have. But what if your wish w...
Disney movies have conditioned us to associate making wishes with something whimsical and dreamy. Something innocent. A playful mermaid who yearns for the legs to let her amongst the landlocked h...
There’s just something sinister about the way Annabelle smiles at you with her porcelain grin. Whereas a doll should bring about a sense of comfort and protection from the things that go bump i...
One day, we’re all going to die. It’s an unfortunate but inevitable truth that we all eventually have to face, as unpleasant as it may seem. Hair thins, bones weaken, muscles atrophy, and ski...
This isn’t your typical shark movie. It’s been forty years since Jaws kept people out of the water, and by now, we’ve learned what to expect from summer thrillers that take place in dangero...
If you’ve ever seen the “Inca Mummy Girl” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you might have an idea of what to expect from Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy. In the fourth episode of the second...
Annabelle’s back, and this time, she’s not toying around. The Conjuring universe is one of the most exciting horror franchises in popular cinema today, thanks in large part to creator and gen...
Ever since Jaws first made a splash in 1975, people have been trying to reclaim its glory. First, there was William Girdler’s Grizzly in 1976 about a larger than life bear that terrorized a swe...
There’s something in the woods, and it’s coming after Stephanie. The monster doesn’t have a name, but when it comes, it shakes the walls and rattles the earth. It throws grown men like they...
As long as there’s been men and medicine, women have been prone to accusations of hysteria. Undoubtedly, mental illness exists, and some of the people who have to live with it are females, but ...