Tragedy Girls is tightly paced, packed with humor, and offers just enough surprises (read: unexpectedly gruesome deaths) to elevate it far above other post-Scream teen slasher entries. Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand) and McKayla (Alexandra Shipp) are high schoolers with big plans for their senior year: to create the most...
Don’t get me wrong, HAPPY DEATH DAY is a pretty dumb movie. But for a wide-release, PG-13 movie on a Friday the 13th in October, it is just the type of dumb, fun, horror tryst you hope to find for a mindless night at the cinema. The elevator...
If the latest nugget of news from John Carpenter is to be taken at face value, we’re entering the age of the Halloween multi-verse. Interest in the latest installment of the franchise, number eleven in the series, reached a fever pitch not too long ago with the announcement...
In 2014, a little horror film infused some fresh blood into the found footage subgenre and became regarded in some circles as a critical watch for fans during Halloween Season. The Houses That October Built was centered around a novel and fun concept: a group of friends travelled...
Ok horror fiends, you know the drill. Every few months some crappy horror film is trotted out to theaters in hopes of making some quick cash for the studios via a big opening weekend. This September, the offering placed upon our altar is FRIEND REQUEST. (Caution: There are...
For his entire career, Darren Aronofsky has made viscerally intense films centered on people spiraling into psychological breakdowns. His 1998 debut, Pi serves as a modern homage to David Lynch’s Eraserhead, and revolves around a mathematician losing his marbles over cracking a code. In Requiem for a Dream, he paints a mosaic...
Come on down and see FRIEND REQUEST for free on Wednesday, September 20th in Boston! I can’t say if the film is any good or not, but I can say that this us an excellent time of year for horror films. Here is the info: From the press...
Darren Aronofsky is not here to make friends. His films are not meant to be easy or digestible. But they also do not aim to be crude for the sake of crudeness either. His films show us the darkest sides of humanity and the human experience, but fail...
Few things in life are more terrifying than the process of growing up. Our minds begin to develop deep-seated anxieties as we inevitably realize that the world is not a safe place. Adults who we’ve been taught to look up to are often revealed to be the source...
All I can say is…HOLY FUCK BALLS. Allow me to insert the standard disclaimer that this fall marks the fifth year I’m serving as one of the cohosts of the Telluride Horror Show, and my second as an associate programmer, but good good almighty, no matter what, this...
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