31 Days of Halloween Horror
New recommendations October 20 – November 19
Bryan Bertino scares the daylights out of me. It’s axiomatic that horror movies are the stuff of nightmares, but I can’t think of another director whose movies so thoroughly approximate…
Before Thanksgiving became a speed bump on the capitalist road between Halloween and Christmas—because there’s not much to be bought and sold at Thanksgiving, save foodstuffs…
FRESH BLOOD
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BY VIOLET LUCCA | October 31, 2021
One of the earliest memories I have is of my father pointing over to an abandoned rowboat in Dublin’s River Tolka and quite matter-of-factly stating that “a monster lives in there.”
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BY GLENN McQUAID | October 31, 2021
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BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | October 31, 2021
The TV is always on in Fatal Pulse. Set in 1991, the underground horror legend Damon Packard’s latest film is drenched in pinkish-bluish gel lighting, a movie-world glow enveloping all in its path—especially antihero Trent Dupont...
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BY CHLOE LIZOTTE | October 31, 2021
With his towering frame, regal bearing, and cruel blue eyes, Vincent Price stands tall in the pantheon of horror icons. But the prevalence of ham in his acting might suggest that...
BY STEVEN MEARS | November 11, 2025
Timothy Leary taught us that set and setting are critical to determining the shape of any mind-altering experience. Mindset: sleep-deprived after an unfortunate all-nighter at work.
BY TOM PHELAN | November 5, 2025
Producer Brian Yuzna, known for his work with the Lovecraftian filmmaker Stuart Gordon, tried his hand at solo directing in 1989, when he leveraged the Re-Animator (1985) sequel rights...
BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | October 30, 2025
Robert Wise—director of the two best Broadway-on-celluloid adaptations in human history—attempts and achieves the improbable here: he sets a Robert Louis Stevenson short story about literal skullduggery in a world as inclined...
BY FRANK FALISI | November 4, 2025
As we entered the 1990s, the era of sleazy sex thrillers, genre fans exited the previous decade with the parting gift of 1989’s Dead Calm. The Phillip Noyce–directed, George Miller–produced, Australian-made movie veered into racy...
BY LAURA KERN | October 25, 2025
When he was casting the lead in Rabid in 1976, writer/director David Cronenberg wanted Sissy Spacek, but his producer John Dunning...
BY LAURA WYNNE | August 27, 2025
The Boxer’s Omen, Kuei Chih-hung’s second-to-last film, is absolutely unlike anything you’ve seen before. The director’s Shaw Brothers career is only recently enjoying renewed appreciation...
BY RUFUS DE RHAM | August 15, 2025
While Carmilla is the primary historical source for 90 percent of the lesbian vampire movie...
BY LAURA WYNNE | July 28, 2025
Everything is either fractured or in the process of splitting apart. It is the final decade of the Cold War, and Mark (Sam Neill), a spy, returns to West Berlin, the more prosperous, though eerily...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | July 8, 2025
RAVENOUS
Certain horror films have a knack for making viewers ask themselves, “Okay, what are we doing here?” and in this regard, 1983’s Sleepaway Camp is a prime example of...
BY COLIN FLEMING | June 20, 2025
With only three brisk features over 16 long years, Sean Byrne has become perhaps the most fervently anticipated horror filmmaker, to the frustration of impatient fans.
BY LAURA KERN | June 6, 2025
Fine art photographer Alex Clark (Kai Lennox), creeping into the haze of deep middle age, wants to go back to the old ways of doing things. He made a splash years ago with a series...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | May 2, 2025
“This phrase ‘point of view’ has to be taken seriously,” said Serge Daney, referencing...
BY FRANK FALISI | January 13, 2025
The Substance opens with its simplest, most natural image: a raw chicken’s egg, the yolk yellow and dewy, lying flat on a white background. A long needle full of an unnaturally green fluid enters the frame and is injected...
BY VIOLET LUCCA | September 21, 2024
BY MICHAEL KRAS | September 6, 2024
