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Midsommar Was a Let Down: Here’s Why
Midsommar was not the movie that I wanted, needed, or even hoped it would be. As the year 2019 wraps up and everyone is making their best and worst lists, I wanted to revisit a couple films that reall...
Ryan C. Bradley’s Top Five of 2019
Horror boomed again in 2019. The genre has been booming over the last five years, undergoing a transformation from Bush-era-nightmare-fueled torture p*rn into more allegorical territory. This ye...
Sleep is for the Week: Recapping The Movie Crypt’s 4th Annual 48-Hour Marathon
This past weekend, Adam Green and Joe Lynch hosted their fourth annual marathon for Save a Yorkie Rescue and did the unthinkable not only by putting on a better show than any of the previous years...
Why Friday the 13th is the Best of the Platinum Dunes Remakes
In 2003, New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes kicked off a massive remake trend with the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Released only two months after Freddy vs. Jason, it made a killing at the...
Independent Horror Check! A Chat With Mansfield Dark Productions [Interview]
During Thanksgiving, my brother and I were perusing Amazon Prime movies and came across Mansfield Dark Productions’ The Investigation: A Haunting in Sherwood. After watching countless movie...
Armchair Detectives Get to Work in Trailer for Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
In the seedy underbelly of the Internet, there’s an unwritten rule, rule zero: Don’t F**k With Cats. In December of 2010, this rule was torn to shreds following the publishing of a vi...
Is Murder by Numbers Based on a True Story?
Following it’s initial release in 2002, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw dubbed the psychological thriller Murder by Numbers a movie consisting of “…a garbled, unbelievable plot; ...
Five Horror Films from 1974 That Helped Define the Genre
The 1970’s witnessed a massive change in the landscape of horror cinema. This was horror for a post-Vietnam world. The atomic age horrors were gone. Ancient ruined castles and Gothic chillers si...
Actor Graham Skipper Talks Bliss [Frightfest 2019 Interview]
Graham Skipper is one of the best actors working in horror nowadays, who, in the midst of his busy career also managed to direct his own startlingly assured debut, Sequence Break. Skipper’s ongo...