From first-time director Samuel Bodin, the Lionsgate-produced Cobweb came with a lot of advance buzz in the horror community. Apparently, the screenplay, written by Chris Tomlin Devlin (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), made the 2018 Black List. For the uninitiated, the Black List is a survey of Hollywood filmmakers of the ‘most liked’ unproduced screenplays. So it’s […]
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Talk about a blessing and a curse. The Fangoria-produced Porno has a title that’s all but guaranteed to attract a cross-over audience. Alternatively, horror fans seeking out Porno may have a hard time finding the right movie as opposed to … well, pornography. Regardless of its title, the 2020 horror comedy fuses together two things […]
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At this point, horror fans have plenty of big screen adaptations of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula. Both Universal Studios and Hammer Films gave us beloved versions of the character. Filmmakers from Andy Warhol to Francis Ford Coppola to Werner Herzog have put their own twist on the iconic character. Prequels, sequels, comedies, animated versions […]
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a timeless classic of Gothic horror. It has inspired countless adaptations and re-imaginings on the big and small screen alike. To date, it’s estimated that the character Count Dracula has appeared somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 different movies. Arguably, Dracula remains the archetypal horror villain as he continues to inspire […]
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Five years have passed since Jason Statham fought a prehistoric shark in The Meg. Not surprisingly, critics weren’t overly impressed with the big screen adaptation of Steve Alten’s novel. But that didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Audiences flocked to the theaters making The Meg a box office success and all but guaranteeing […]
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Over halfway through the year 2023 and a few themes have quietly emerged in horror. We’ve had the expected dose of sequels (Scream VI, Evil Dead Rise) alongside a handful of viral surrealist hits (Skinamarink, The Outwaters). But this year has seen a handful of horror movies with ‘mommy issues’ including Attachment and Bad Things. […]
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The 1990s saw a boom and bust field of Stephen King adaptations make their way to both the big and small screen. Hollywood delivered some classics including The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and Misery. There were some middling ones including The Dark Half and Apt Pupil. And we got quite a few forgettable duds […]
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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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