Retrospectives
Why Salem’s Lot Should Have Been Awful but Wasn’t
Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot is not only a seminal vampire movie but a great Stephen King adaptation as well. It has held up for over thirty-five years and is remembered as a clas...
City of the Living Dead: Fulci’s Strangest or Most Effective Movie?
Lucio Fulci did not make movies with traditional plot or character arcs. He wasn’t interested in these things. His films relied heavily on atmosphere. They showcased gory effects that woul...
Audition: Disturbing Torture Film or Black Romantic Comedy?
Audition is fairly widely regarded as one of the most disturbing Japanese horror films, if not simply one of the most disturbing horror films, worldwide. And that is a valid statement. Directed b...
Why Alien 3 is the Most Unsung of the Entire Franchise
Alien 3 is a movie that gets a lot of hate. Even now, after twenty years, most people do not consider it good. Director David Fincher has gone onto stardom and numerous Academy Award nominations. He&#...
How Near Dark Explores the Dark Side of Family Structure
Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark is a horror movie about family. That does not make it a family horror movie, mind you. But its center focus is on the structure of the modern family dynamic. The pro...
Why Twilight Zone: The Movie is One of the Most Overlooked Anthology Films
[soliloquy id=”17249″] Horror anthology films were very successful in the 1980’s in a way that they have not since been, unfortunately. Some of the best of the sub-genre came about ...
How May Explores the Horrors of Becoming an Adult
Lucky McKee‘s May is occasionally referred to as Carrie for the next generation, which is a term often tacked on to horror movies with a female protagonist. Other than t...
Why A New Beginning is the Most Unsung Friday the 13th Movie
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is, as I have written before, is the ultimate Jason Voorhees movie. It’s the perfect embodiment of all things Friday the 13th. It did not, however, ...
Hellraiser – Making Beauty Out of Body Horror
Hellraiser is what cemented Clive Barker as a powerhouse figure in the horror genre. It is as revolutionary and as visionary as the movies that John Carpenter, Wes Craven and Tobe Hoper used to p...