Get In The Holiday Spirit With These Five Halloween-Themed Movies
If you’re planning your Halloween party or just a night at home with your own horror marathon, here’s a perfect list to draw from to create your perfect Halloween movie night. Or if you just want to get in the spirit while you’re putting up your Halloween decorations,...
Five Must-See Werewolf Movies For Halloween Or The Next Full Moon
Werewolf movies can be some of the hardest to produce, with the need for elaborate special effects makeup or costuming to create realistic transformations. But when they’re done right, werewolf movies are some of the scariest movies you’ll ever see. Here is a great...
New On DVD: ‘The Eyes Of My Mother’ Defies Horror Cliches To Disturb Viewers
The horror genre of film has always been divided into two camps: the typical cliché horror films starring and aimed at teens and the college crowd with plenty of “Boo!” moments, and films aimed at true horror fans who can be a tough crowd to please. Hardcore horror...
The ‘Twilight’ hater’s guide to manly vampire movies
Brace yourself for the mad hordes descending on malls everywhere in a few days at the stroke of midnight. Expect a deadly stampede as the doors open to the most anticipated day in November, at least if you're pre-pubescent or simply have no taste in men. I'm not...
Claustrophobics Beware: ‘Catacombs’ and ‘As Above, So Below’
You know when you go to those haunted attractions and they have that section that is pitch black? Yeah, that's the part that freaks me out. I feel like I can't breathe. Does that make me claustrophobic? Maybe, but I know movies where people go into caves or...
Even Bacon Doesn’t Make ‘The Darkness’ Better In New Horror DVD Release
There’s a saying in the culinary world that “everything’s better with bacon.” That often applies in the film industry as well, in the form of one Kevin Bacon. But sometimes even Bacon can’t save a flawed plot with the best of intentions. The Darkness comes out on DVD...
The Blair Bigfoot Project
Exists is not a bad movie. But it's yet another in a far too long line of the "found footage" genre. I realize that Eduardo Sanchez has a certain claim to the genre as the director of the classic that started it all, The Blair Witch Proiect, but enough is enough. As a...
‘Wer’ Redefines the Werewolf Genre
It's so hard to find -- and presumably make-- a good werewolf movie. It's certainly one of the most complex creatures to create realistically, with a varying rate of success in the past and present. For instance, you have the classic "American Werewolf in London"...
‘Oculus’ is One Big Ball of (Creepy) Confusion
Haunted mirrors with evil spirits can be very creepy, as can watching someone break down into mental illness and violence. If presented in a simple, straightforward way, it's effective, but some of the great disturbing moments of "Oculus" get muddied up in...
‘Daybreakers’: Putting the bite into noir
Oh, I used to love vampires, back in the days of Christopher Lee, and have watched them done, and re-done, and re-done again over the years -- each incarnation increasingly whiny, emo, and pathetically annoying. It's been sliding downhill since the angsty Lestat and...