The opening sequence of The Strangers: Chapter 2 is a promising start to what soon becomes a bafflingly bad movie. Since Chapter 1, I had been...
Do you smell that? That unmistakable blend of fake fog, delicious fried food, and hard-working scare actor sweat? That can only mean one thing: nature is...
I don’t know about you, but it feels like I stepped out of the theater after seeing Wolf Man, blinked, and suddenly it was September. It’s...
The Conjuring: Last Rites is a film that feels anxious. Anxious about sending off its characters, anxious about cutting things too short, and anxious about taking...
It’s officially Halloween season, and a great time to remind everyone that the word “spook” is a slur. Like many words and phrases in the English...
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...