Somewhere in the mid-2010s, as found-footage was stalling a bit, Spanish found-footage thriller Hooked Up quietly debuted at a small film festival. Roughly two years passed before the iPhone-shot thriller made its way to VOD platforms. Unlike another Spanish found-footage movie, [REC] and its sequels, Hooked Up never found much of an audience. Based on […]
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Following the breakout success of Paranormal Activity in 2007, found-footage horror hit its stride in the late aughts. Cloverfield, Quarantine, Troll Hunter, and The Poughkeepsie Tapes followed over the next couple of years. Since the 2000s, found-footage continues to adapt and evolve, even if its big franchises gassed out years ago. Lost in the shuffle […]
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Following the positive response to the short movie of the same name, The Pact is one of those horror movies that saw a limited theatrical release. Caught in between the Torture Porn and found-footage cycle of the 2000s and bigger The Conjuring and Insidious universe release, most horror fans probably missed it. And that’s too […]
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Today, Amber Heard is largely known for the media circus surrounding her defamation trial against ex-husband, Johnny Depp. Diehard DC Comics fans largely know her as Mera from the Aquaman movie and its upcoming sequel. But early in her career, Heard starred in mostly small genre movies or B-movie cult classics. Some of these roles […]
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Following the box office success of Conan the Barbarian, the early 80s saw a slew of low-budget action movies that mixed ‘sword-and-sandal’ epic with weird science fiction vibes. If you grew up in the 80s, you probably remember cult movies like Krull, The Sword and the Sorcerer, or The Ice Pirates. If you look at […]
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Horror fans know Silent Night, Deadly Night. And even non-horror fans would recognize its laughably bad sequel courtesy of the ‘Garbage Day‘ meme. Then there’s older diehard horror fans who may recognize the early pseudo-slasher, Christmas Evil. But even hardcore horror fans may not be familiar with To All A Good Night. This Killer Santa […]
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As the slasher – and horror by default – slowly lost steam by the latter half of the 1980s, plenty of horror titles saw either limited theatrical releases or went straight to video. One of those movies, American Gothic, had the kind of VHS cover art that should have embedded itself on horror fans’ brains. […]
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Even if it was the ‘Golden Era’ of the slasher, not every slasher title released in the 1980s found an audience. Before the slasher franchise cycles kicked into effect and a Friday the 13th or Elm Street sequel released every year, micro-budgeted slashers still snuck into theaters. By the late 80s, the direct-to-video market offered […]
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