31 Days of Halloween Horror
New recommendations October 20 – November 19
When he was casting the lead in Rabid in 1976, writer/director David Cronenberg wanted Sissy Spacek, but his producer John Dunning rejected her due to her Texas accent.
While Carmilla is the primary historical source for 90 percent of the lesbian vampire movie, there are many for the vampire in general…
FRESH BLOOD
Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...
READ MORE >
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.”
READ MORE >
BY GLENN McQUAID | October 31, 2021
Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text TK...Text
READ MORE >
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...
READ MORE >
BY CHLOE LIZOTTE | October 31, 2021
What of the ephemeral horror film experience? That is, the movie we watch knowing we’ll likely only see it once, likely having encountered it by chance, but which is nonetheless memorable?
BY COLIN FLEMING | August 30, 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
Demons (1971) begins with the sun’s burial. It sinks beneath the horizon, like the circle leaving a Japanese flag. This brief color sequence is the overture to a monochrome samurai nightmare...
BY TOM PHELAN | July 11, 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
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
Movies don’t save lives, but they do relitigate memory and imagination. The beloved suddenly reappears in frame, reanimated through some alchemical bargain of light and motion.
BY FRANK FALISI | April 21, 2025
RAVENOUS
The title of David Cronenberg’s latest film resonates in myriad ways. “The Shrouds” is the name of an exclusive Toronto cemetery co-owned by inventor/entrepreneur Karsh...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | April 15, 2025
“This phrase ‘point of view’ has to be taken seriously,” said Serge Daney, referencing...
BY FRANK FALISI | January 13, 2025
Evil father figures account for some of the most memorable characters in genre films and beyond.
BY LAURA KERN | December 31, 2024
It’s quite likely that my first taste of narrative horror was provided by Tales from the Crypt, the luridly tongue-in-cheek anthology series that ran from 1989-96 on HBO. Among the images bobbing in the stew of my earliest conscious...
BY STEVEN MEARS | December 22, 2024
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
