The Hall of Killers has welcomed all manner of maniacs over the years, from demon children to dream invaders, but few have managed to make audiences feel both terrified and deeply uncomfortable quite like Donny Kohler, the star of the notorious 1979 shocker Don’t Go in the House. Now, decades after he first brought his…
Has it really been ten years since It Follows shuffled its way into cinemas and directly into our collective nightmares? It seems impossible that a decade has passed since David Robert Mitchell unleashed one of the strangest, most hypnotic and anxiety-inducing horror films of the 2010s. It was the little indie movie that could, a…
Some killers creep out of the shadows in silence. Others announce their arrival with a knife, a grin and enough hairspray to survive the apocalypse. Brenda Bates falls firmly into the latter category. The gleefully deranged villain from Urban Legend has officially been inducted into the Hall of Killers third class, and honestly, it is…
Every so often a short horror film comes along that feels like it has crawled straight out of the fever dreams of 1970s cinema, and In The Dark We Bleed is one of them. Written and directed by Mike Clarke, produced by Paul Gerrard, and shot for little more than a thousand pounds, it is…
In a move that can only be described as gloriously overconfident, Warner Bros has decided not to wait for Mortal Kombat II to hit cinemas before ordering the next round of carnage. During New York Comic Con, writer Jeremy Slater, best known for The Exorcist and Moon Knight, announced that he has already been hired…
There are haunted house movies… and then there’s Poltergeist. The film that made an entire generation terrified of static on the TV, creepy trees outside the bedroom window, and clowns that move when you’re not looking. Released in 1982 and somehow branded PG (seriously, what was going on with the ratings board back then?), Poltergeist…
Some villains stab, some slash, and some, like Alien’s Ash, quietly ruin your day while quoting science. The slippery, milk-blooded menace has finally found his rightful place in the Premier Class of the Hall of Killers, rubbing cybernetic elbows with the likes of Art the Clown, Witchfinder General, and Damien Thorn. Considering that Ash nearly…
In a season when pumpkins glow and costumes lurk in every window, V/H/S Halloween barges into the party wearing a leather mask, wielding a chainsaw, and unzipping your frontal lobe for fun. The eighth entry in the V/H/S series finally embraces its namesake night, and the result is a gloriously deranged anthology that mashes scares,…
Before Good Boy taught us how to feel genuine dread through the eyes of a loyal dog, Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part II tried something so strange that it deserves to be preserved in a museum of cinematic oddities. The year was 1984. Mullet culture was strong, shoulder pads were powerful, and Craven…
It has been almost three decades since Ellen Ripley last hurled herself into the cold black void of space to do battle with acid drooling nightmares, but the woman who made intergalactic monster fighting look easy might not be done yet. At New York Comic Con, Sigourney Weaver confirmed that she has had a meeting…