Director Brian De Palma has helmed several classic movies including Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Dressed to Kill. Given his proclivity for stylish violence and sexual content, De Palma has frequently courted controversy. In addition, his penchant for flashy filmmaking and melodrama means that De Palma has made a few divisive oddities including Raising Cain. […]
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In the 1970s, nature fought back against humanity in a plethora of eco-horror movies. Sometimes it was spiders (Kingdom of Spiders) or ants (Phase IV, Empire of the Ants) or rats (Willard). Giant killer rabbits (Night of the Lepus) and giant, well, everything (Food of the Gods) occasionally turned up. Other movies just shamelessly imitated […]
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By the end of the 1970s, the eco-horror subgenre was slowing down as the counterculture movement gave way to a conservative resurgence that defined the 80s. Most fans of 70s horror recognize title like Orca, Piranha, or Grizzly. Lovers of ‘cheese cinema’ have likely seen Frogs, Tentacles, or Day of the Animals. But the 1979 […]
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Today, Robert Englund is horror movie royalty. The Universal Monsters era gave us Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney, Jr. And Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing anchored Hammer Films, while Vincent Price enjoyed a productive working relationship with Roger Corman. Early in his career, Englund popped up in supporting roles in horror movies Eaten […]
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The year 2014 was an interesting one for the horror genre. If the 2010s heralded a new ‘golden era’ for the genre, an argument could be made that 2014 was the year that kicked things off. Several quirky horror title released that year including It Follows, Tusk, The Babadook, Starry Eyes, and Creep. Not surprisingly, […]
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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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