Has anyone not had a nightmare about school long after school days were done? They’re a sleep terror staple. We’re naked in school to the thunderous laughter of ex-peers who have…
Has anyone not had a nightmare about school long after school days were done? They’re a sleep terror staple. We’re naked in school to the thunderous laughter of ex-peers who have…
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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
And here we are again, three years later. What does it say about this franchise that even after its ostensible final entry in 2023...
BY NICHOLAS RUSSELL | Updated August 31, 2026
One working definition of horror might be any story that depicts innocence under threat of annihilation by dark forces. In which case, every coming-of-age story is a horror story, as anyone past puberty can tell you.
BY TOM PHELAN | August 28, 2026
Emphasis on Camp. The myriad genre hooks in Jane Schoenbrun’s latest are ostentatiously framed by quotation marks—the title alone betrays the writer/director’s eagerness to make...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | August 7, 2026
No one ever accused Nicolas Winding Refn of not having an aesthetic. Her Private Hell begins with our heroine Elle (Sophie Thatcher), a beautiful young actress in long red leather, traversing the expansive, tastefully illuminated...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | July 24, 2026
They’re some of the questions I’m asked the most: how and when did you know that horror was your thing? And also, commonly, why...
BY LAURA KERN | July 17, 2026
One of the many marks of a good dad is that when Dad is having a bad day, he continues to be a good dad. He’s duty-bound to nurture, protect, and offer strength to those he loves.
BY COLIN FLEMING | June 21, 2026
If you’re not a Molly, then you’ve met a Molly, someone so thumped by reality that their every word is a new knot in the bedsheets tied...
BY TOM PHELAN | June 21, 2026
Thank God for cameras—otherwise, how would we know what water really looks like?
BY FRANK FALISI | June 19, 2026
Kane Parsons inaugurated Backrooms as an adolescent, crafting ersatz VHS shorts for the internet that explored the eponymous shadow realm, a labyrinth of eerily bland rooms...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | May 30, 2026
RAVENOUS
Obsession begins with a rehearsal. We watch tight-jawed twentysomething cutie-dweeb Bear (Michael Johnston), cordoned off in a tight single shot, nakedly confess his heretofore hidden...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | May 15, 2026
Bob Clark, the director who gave us unforgettable accounts of both sides of the Yuletide coin from mine to mint with Black Christmas (1974) and A Christmas Story (1983)...
BY COLIN FLEMING | May 10, 2026
Four years after playing a killer desperate to dodge extinction—Roy Batty in Blade Runner...
BY TOM PHELAN | March 2, 2026
Trying to write about the 28 movies—that most blitzed-out and body-baggy horror franchise measured in days, weeks, years—I turned, like a good hauntologist, to half-remembered...
BY FRANK FALISI | February 23, 2026
BY LAURA KERN | February 12, 2026
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…
BY PAUL FELTEN | December 2, 2025
