Many directors are fond of appearing in their own work in some capacity or another. Given there are plenty of people who aren’t entirely familiar with what their favorite directors look like, it...
Growing up as a Southern Baptist (i.e., the kind of Christian that shows up to church hungover and 20 minutes late every Sunday morning), pretty much everything I knew about Catholic customs was culle...
There is a prevalent fascination with grindhouse cinema that persists even though most casual horror fans didn’t know what it was twenty years ago. This whole style had been long-forgotten, dug up by ...
Scary as the industry is now, this is the golden age of being able to make a movie. Anyone can do it. The dicey part is distribution and profit, both of which are in some ways harder than ever. Still,...
Tales of haunted houses and ghost stories make up the oldest and widest subgenre in horror. Before there were any horror films, there were ghost stories. Long before Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting...
The purpose of a sequel is always in debate. There is a sense that a follow up is automatically inferior by virtue of being derivative of a previous work. And, if that sequel is released direct-to-vid...
The YA novels written by Lois Duncan were a large part of my first foray into horror. I was a teenager in the late ‘90s, a time when R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike dominated the young adult novel sce...
It takes a lot to make a good horror movie, but at the same time, it takes a lot to make a horror movie truly unwatchable. One of the greatest distinctions about the genre is that the good and the bad...
This week we have opted to showcase Jess Franco’s five sleaziest horror films! Franco was the prolific director of a series of sexploitation horror pictures. Owning the title of master of sleaze...