In the early to mid-2000s, as reality television started to boom, HBO and then Bravo hosted Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Project Greenlight. Specifically, the series saw aspiring filmmakers pitch their screenplays with the winner getting the opportunity to make their dream project. The 2005 winners, Marcus Dunston (The Collector, Saw IV) and Patrick Melton […]
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Twenty years passed between Army of Darkness and the loose reboot Evil Dead. Though it was a more serious adaptation with slicker production values the 2013 Evil Dead was a box office success that introduced new horror fans to the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. A sequel seemed inevitable but it took another decade to get the fifth […]
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As far as horror cinema goes, Turkey isn’t a country known for many critically-acclaimed horror movies. Or any sort of horror movies, for that matter. Outside of the obscure 2005 D@bbe, the list is pretty small. So when Can Evrenol’s Baskin – adapted from his own short film – made some waves several years at […]
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Following V/H/S: Viral, the found-footage anthology series took an extended break until last Halloween season. Horror-streaming platform Shudder released V/H/S/94 to a strong critical response and record-setting viewership. Not surprisingly, Shudder promptly announced yet another sequel also set in the 1990s – V/H/S/99. And it makes sense – how could the horror anthology series miss […]
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In a Jan 26 2006 New York Magazine article, David Edelstein coined a now familiar phrase – ‘Torture Porn‘. Though he was initially commenting on Eli Roth’s Hostel, Edelstein stepped back and identified what he saw as a new horror trend. Following Saw’s unexpected box office success in 2004, a handful of movies released in […]
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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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We’re two-thirds of he way through 2022 and it’s looking like this is going to be a breakout year for Argentinian horror movies. To date, Virus: 32, Welcome to Hell, and On the Third Day have represented the genre on behalf of Argentinian filmmakers. Now the latest horror movie from the South American country, PussyCake, […]
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Not surprisingly, DASHCAM arrives with plenty of buzz. For starters, it’s Rob Savage’s follow-up to the breakout horror movie of 2020, Host. And Savage once again mixes technology and our pandemic setting. That alone makes DASHCAM a must see horror movie for 2022. Recently, news broke that some theater chains were cancelling screenings of the […]
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