A moment of silence, please, for childhood innocence. It had a good run. But ever since early versions of Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh slipped into the public domain, filmmakers have been treating them the way a bored toddler treats a crayon drawing on the wall. Which is to say, absolutely no mercy. We…
The Hall of Killers has welcomed many memorable monsters over the years, but few have entered with quite the same grace as Lord Summerisle, the soft spoken mastermind from The Wicker Man who proved that a gentle smile can be just as lethal as a chainsaw. With his induction into the Premier Class, Summerisle joins…
The Return To Silent Hill trailer has released. Silent Hill fans, put down your radios and stop pretending that scraping noise in the hallway is “probably just the pipes.” The moment we have been waiting for since James Sunderland last trudged through the fog on the PlayStation 2 has finally arrived. The official trailer for…
Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States and the unofficial capital of People Who Handle Cold Better Than the Rest of Us, has once again waved goodbye to the sun for its yearly two month vacation. The last sunrise has packed its bags, boarded a metaphorical plane and said “See you losers in…
Ah, Within The Woods. Sam Raimi once decided that if he could not charm investors with his dazzling personality and his impressive collection of Super 8 shorts that looked like they were filmed on a potato, he would simply terrify them instead. The result was Within The Woods, a microbudget blast of demonic mayhem made…
Josh Ruben clearly refuses to take a holiday. After opening the year with the slasher comedy Heart Eyes, he has already marched straight into his next project. Deadline revealed that Paramount has tapped Ruben to direct a film based on the Matt Query and Harrison Query novel Wilderness Reform, a story that asks the ancient…
If Osgood Perkins had his own menu, the main dish would be “slow-cooked dread served cold.” With Keeper, the director adds another course to his horror repertoire – one that is quiet, off-kilter, and baked through with creeping tension and a suspicious dessert. Tatiana Maslany stars as Liz, a painter who heads off to the…
It has finally happened. Clarence Boddicker, the man who made murder feel like a team sport and Detroit feel like a demolition derby, has been officially inducted into the First Class Tier of the Hall of Killers. After years of fans chanting his name like he was the patron saint of bad decisions, the Hall…
Arkasha Stevenson is making it very clear that she did not arrive in the horror genre to tiptoe around. After turning a prequel no one asked for into a film people actually enjoyed with The First Omen, she is already charging ahead with her second feature. This time she is teaming with A24, which means…
Thirty years. That is how long it has been since David Fincher crawled out of the blasted crater left by Alien 3 and said, “Right, now I am making a film my way.” And the world, still blissfully unaware of what was coming, kindly responded, “Sure, kid, what harm can a stylish crime thriller do?”…