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In the Mouth of Madness is a Tragically Underrated Meta Horror

Scream and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare are widely regarded as the two movies that kicked off meta-horror in the 1990s. Both were, in their own way, deconstructions of the genre. But despite having the ...

Survival Skills Nightstream Film Festival Review

Survival Skills Is A Meta Mix Of VHS Visuals And The Systemic Nature Of Violence [Nightstream Film Festival Review]

Survival Skills opens with a nostalgic analog aesthetic, which will be familiar to those who’ve watched 2019’s VHYes, the television work of comedians Tim & Eric, or any number of Adul...

The Babyface killer from Dave Parker's 2009 meta slasher The Hills Run Red.

The Hills Run Red is a Criminally Underrated Slasher [Quarantine Retrospective]

While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to time to keep t...

Scream 4

A Brief History of Meta Horror

Meta horror is something we’re starting to see less of now, which makes sense on one hand because it was pretty much capped with Cabin in the Woods. That was the ultimate statement on horror movies ma...

Area 51 to see release in May. The logo for Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions which just launched BH-Tilt.

Blumhouse Gets into the Distribution Game, Will Release The Town that Dreaded Sundown in October  

[soliloquy id=”7653″] Deadline has broken the news that after several years of revolutionizing the horror genre via the production end of the business, Jason Blum’s production compan...

Poster for the town that dreaded sundown.

Two New Photos from The Town that Dreaded Sundown Redux Revealed

[soliloquy id=”7653″] The upcoming The Town that Dreaded Sundown redux is gaining steam. Two new pictures from the remake were revealed today. The film is scheduled to head out on the fest...