It’s a pretty rare feat to see a horror film given a major release in the local theater. Tarot, Abigail, Longlegs and even the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot for instance, were relegated to smaller screens in the theater, while Maxxxine and The Monkey didn’t make it in at all. So, imagine my surprise when Weapons, a movie whose …
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Discovering the Dark Side of the Cinderella Story
Before we get into the dark side of Cinderella, let me pose a question to you all: how many of you are familiar with the Disney version of the Cinderella story? Most of you remember the beautiful young orphan, exploited by a wicked stepmother and her toadie daughters. Add to that the fairy godmother, glass slipper, and the smitten prince, …
Read More »And Now For Something You May Have Missed…
Hush Mike Flanagan has had a meteoric rise on the horror scene with well acclaimed entries such as Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Before I Wake, Gerald’s Game, and Doctor Sleep. He also directed the poplular Netflix series’ The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. And now, Flanagan has been entrusted with taking over the upcoming Exorcist …
Read More »10 Horror Movie Tropes We’ll Always Love (And 3 We Already Hate)
Let’s be honest: horror movies love a good trope. And you know what? So do we. Sure, some of them have been dusted off more times than a cursed Ouija board at a teenage sleepover, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still work. Some tropes get our little horror-loving hearts racing no matter how many times we’ve seen them—and some …
Read More »Is Jason Voorhees a Deadite?
“Alexa, is Jason Voorhees a Deadite?” So began my first dive into a question I had only begun to ponder a few weeks ago. It was an ominous sign when, rather than giving me an answer, Alexa literally returned with a movie titled What? So I asked again: “Alexa, is Jason Voorhees a Deadite?” At least this time I got …
Read More »19 Questions with The House Among the Trees’ Wes Robinson
Wes Robinson is an actor most known for his roles in films like Blair Witch (2016) and The House Among the Trees. Recently, we had him on the Talk Horror Podcast to discuss his latest offering in the horror genre, along with his fellow filmmakers. It was an absolutely incredible episode, and if you haven’t listened to it yet, make …
Read More »Coming Soon… Will We Finally Find Out Who Tamara Is?
2025’s New Horror Movies – Part 4 Okay, so I take a one week break from reviewing trailers for the new horror movies of 2025, and to my surprise even more films start to surface for our consideration. Am I going to be wowed? Or am I just a glutton for punishment? You be the judge my dear Horror Fam. …
Read More »M3GAN 2.0 – The Movie Review I Never Expected To Write
It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote about upcoming horror films of 2025, and included M3GAN 2.0 as a horror movie I planned to view only if it were on streaming, and I could find nothing else to watch. Well fast forward a couple of weeks, and here I am, writing a review for a film I had …
Read More »The Many Ideas of David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green Is A Busy Little Bee Say what we might about David Gordon Green, we can’t throw shade at his accomplishments. True, there are quite a few horror fans who were more than a little irritated with his foray into the Halloween franchise, and outraged with his attempt to shoe horn the sensibilities of “modern audiences” into The …
Read More »Why Horror Reboots and Remakes Don’t Work
40 Horror Remakes And Counting… Since 1980, there have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 horror reboots and remakes, and arguably more if you include films like Halloween (2018), which retconned Halloween II, Halloween: 20 Years Later, which retconned Halloween 4, or Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn unofficially being the first remake of The Evil Dead. Yet for every …
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