After the success of Freidkin’s exorcism film, other studios, and filmmakers were eager to ride the wave of the emerging subgenre of religious horror. The Exorcist’s...
While doing my part in celebrating everyone’s favorite fear-fueled season, I stumbled across another gem from Joko Anwar’s catalog. The religious horror movie Grave Torture, which...
Character identities also affect the world that is built around them. I find this especially fascinating when we follow children or adolescents because we can see...
“You can’t get away from it Jasmine. It’ll follow you, believe me, I know.” If there’s anything more certain than the sun, it’s the irreverent notion...
Jobs for Black actors were scarce in the early days of Hollywood, but that didn’t mean there weren’t Black roles in the films being made. The...
There are only so many times I can get away with burying the lede with an editorial headline before someone...
I’m going to begin this conversation with a sort of insane thought. Halloween as a franchise maybe should have ended...
It’s officially Halloween season, and a great time to remind everyone that the word “spook” is a slur. Like many...
Pork roll or taylor ham? Asbury Park or Long Branch? Which classmate should you cannibalize while stranded in the woods?...
No one knew that when The Conjuring came out in 2013, it would become the ghost story of the decade,...
Legacy sequels are not a new invention in the horror genre. The 2020s have seen several horror legacy sequels keeping...
A young person, raised by a scientist and seemingly simple minded by design, discovers their inner hedonist. In their quest...
The commonality between horror fandom and the Queer community is well established. For years, the genre so often marginalized and...
“I’m going to make a deer hunter out of you,” my father told me right after I was born. This...
[This article contains spoilers] Prior to the disestablishment of the Hays’ Code, filmmakers had to make depictions of cannibalism more...