Sixty years after its release, Robert Wise’s 1963 adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House remains a horror classic. In addition to Wise’s haunted house chiller, author Shirley Jackson’s Gothic novel provided the source material for the critically acclaimed Netflix series. Somewhere in between those two interpretations, action director Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister) delivered […]
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From the ‘Based on a true story’ files of horror, low-budget indie flick The Haunting of Julia Fields surfaced on Tubi earlier this year. In all likelihood, we can take the ‘true story’ with something of a grain of salt. Don’t confuse this 2023 release with the 70s British supernatural horror, The Haunting of Julia, […]
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Near the end of May, about a week ahead of the June full moon, Netflix finally added an original horror movie. A Norwegian horror export, Viking Wolf has nothing to do with the acclaimed History Channel series, Vikings. While there’s a quick reference to Vikings, Viking Wolf is in fact a pretty standard werewolf movie. […]
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So far in 2023, Netflix has put almost no effort into platforming new horror content. Just last week, however, the streaming giant quietly dropped the latest Mexican horror outing, Tin & Tina. Consider it yet another addition to the always popular creepy kids subgenre. On the surface, this one looks like it will recycle most […]
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Early in the summer of 2003, rural slasher Wrong Turn became a modest box office hit. Like most horror movies from the late 90s and early 2000s, it boasted a young, attractive cast of up-and-comers. And it carried on a long-tradition of hillbilly horror dating back to the 1972 classic Deliverance. Critics didn’t really like […]
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Another month, another new entry to the rapidly growing social media horror subgenre. Just over the last year or so, we’ve seen Deadstream, Sissy, Shook, Followers, and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair pop and click ‘Unlike’ on influencers and other aspects of our social media culture. Now as May comes to a close, […]
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Never quite as popular as either vampires or zombies, werewolf movies present something of a challenge for indie horror filmmakers. Regardless of storytelling liberties or creative editing, audiences inevitably expect a convincing werewolf to appear on screen. With this in mind, indie filmmaker Wayne David tries to pull of a psychological take on the werewolf […]
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Apparently, in 1985, a noted drug smuggler named Andrew C. Thornton II dropped duffel bags of cocaine over a national park in Georgia. A poor black bear stumbled on one of the bags, helped themselves to some of white powder, and died shortly thereafter. It’s a bizarre footnote in history appropriately coined ‘Cocaine Bear’. Not […]
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