We have horror movies based on video games. Werewolves Within. Silent Hill. House of the Dead. The Resident Evil series. Some horror movies have been turned into games like the recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre survival video game. And there’s a handful of movies based on board games. If Ouija can get its own movie, then […]
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Somewhere in the middle of the 1990s, horror and science-fiction hybrid Species proved to a bit a surprising box office hit. On one hand, the premise of a seductive, but deadly, alien looking to mate and reproduce with a human mate was pretty pulpy stuff. Yet the sci-fi/horror outing also boasted a good cast alongside […]
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Everyone is looking to create their own shared cinematic universe these days. Afterall, Marvel Studios and Disney have been raking in the box office dollars from their Marvel Cinematic Universe for years. But for every Monsterverse, there’s a failed DCEU or Sony Spider-Villain cash-in machine. To date, Universal Pictures has tried to resurrect their classic […]
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Earlier in April, Netflix finally dropped the anticipated second part to Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon saga. Like Part One: A Child of Fire, the second installment has a long-winded title – Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver. Undoubtedly, Snyder will deliver on plenty of explosions and slow-motion action scenes. If it’s on par with […]
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Horror movies don’t always need supernatural monsters to make audiences jump from their seats. There’s plenty of things right in nature that make people squirm. Most of us have some rational – and irrational – fear of bugs. And spiders likely top that list for most people. Not surprisingly then, the eight-legged arachnids have headlined […]
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There’s a certain assumption of inherent innocence in children. That innocence is what made the The Exorcist so shocking. And it’s why we have a particular abhorrence of people who harm children. And it’s also why we are shocked when children commit acts of inexplicable violence. Good horror movies have their pulse on cultural anxieties […]
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Danielle Harris is a legendary ‘Scream Queen‘ in horror. With a career stretching back to the 1980s, Harris has appeared in dozens of movie and television roles that include The Last Boy Scout, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, and Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood. But she’s best known from her horror movie […]
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By the mid-2000s, the neo-slasher trend marked by Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban Legend, had died off. Torture porn, New French Extremity, and the horror remake craze replaced the slasher revival and the found-footage phenomenon was just around the corner. As a result, when Adam Green’s purist slasher movie Hatchet […]
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