Something of an obscure entry in 90s horror, Mute Witness saw a small theatrical release in 1995. Aside from a limited release, the Moscow-set horror thriller fell in between the glory days of the 80s slasher and before Wes Craven’s Scream re-invigorated horror. Though video stores were still booming, Mute Witness also wasn’t one of […]
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Today, we experienced a huge cosmic event – the first total eclipse visible in Canada since 1979 and the first one visible in the United States since 2017. Not surprisingly, a total eclipse usually means bad things in horror movies. From the late 80s Demi Moore vehicle, The Seventh Sign, to Ti West’s indie classic […]
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Part home invasion movie, sort of slasher, and part thriller, Mischief Night hasn’t so much faded into obscurity. In all likelihood, most horror fans haven’t heard of this 2013 release. Image Entertainment gave it a limited theatrical release before dumping it onto VOD platforms. Three years later, Mike Flanagan’s Hush would eclipse this release with […]
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By the late 1980s, the slasher had lost most of its box office drawing power. Outside of the major slasher franchises – which were digging into their later sequels – most slashers were dropping straight onto video store shelves. For every April Fool’s Day or Maniac Cop, the subgenre produced a few Cheerleader Camp’s, Nail […]
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Someone call Burl Ives. Apparently, he’s not the only American actor and singer immortalized as a snowman. Of course, Ives’ character was an animated snowman in the beloved Rankin-Bass children’s special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Years later, Michael Keaton’s decision to star as a dead father resurrected as a snowman in the children’s live-action movie, […]
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Outside of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, there’s likely no other Christmas story that’s re-visited than It’s a Wonderful Life. Both source materials boast premises ripe for re-imagining in different concepts. Now that it’s officially December and the start of the Christmas season, Shudder just released its horror re-imagining of Frank Capra’s class. From RLJE […]
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Now that Halloween has long since passed, the horror schedule has thinned out. Mid-November brought the anticipated Eli Roth-helmed Thanksgiving. And there’s handful of Christmas-flavored horror movies coming up. But it’s the time of year to scour the back catalogues of Shudder and Tubi. If you search through Tubi, you may stumble on Rage, a […]
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When Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double-bill feature Grindhouse released in 2007, it fared poorly at the box office. Perhaps it’s a bit ironic then that the faux-trailers on the double-bill inspired more successful box office ventures. Machete went on to nearly triple its production value. Okay, Hobo With a Shotgun was a small Canadian […]
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