As someone who has been attending the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival annually since 2017, I can comfortably say that the ‘Slayed’ LGBTQ+ shorts block is a true...
Dabbling with witchcraft is a time-honored tradition for troubled teen girls, especially in horror movies. Writer-director Avalon Fast adds their own dreamy spin on the subgenre...
I often get the sense when watching a new Alice Maio Mackay movie that I’ll be seeing it in a documentary about the director in the...
Short films are the cornerstone of any good film festival. Sometimes shorts are packed before and after an accompanying feature, sometimes they get their own blocks....
It’s hard to find anything new to say within the zombie subgenre. Not impossible—Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead, in theaters right now, is proof of...
I was one of the few people lucky enough to catch the East Coast premiere of Abigail Before Beatrice at Brooklyn Horror Film Fest. This southern...
We are all very much aware of how much time we spend on our phones. More importantly, anyone on the internet can see how younger generations...
Lucid is a fantastical punk story of a woman on the verge of many things. Mia (Caitlin Acken Taylor) is on the verge of owning her...
Time and time again, it has been said that horror has always been political. That rings true now more than ever. Sometimes it takes shock, violence,...
Unlike the human pyramid at the center of New Group, the foundations of the film are much less stable. Bringing us J-Horror in the vein of...
As a horror fan, I tend to think about remakes a lot. Not why they are made, necessarily. That answer...
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...