HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 31 DAYS OF RECOMMENDATIONS

ARTICLE | EMBODIMENTS OF EVIL

The dead-eyed political aspirant Greg Stillson in David Cronenberg’s Stephen King adaptation encapsulates Trump-level terror.

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  November 3, 2024

Before we assess the villain, let’s begin with the hero—and “hero” is the correct appellation for Johnny Smith…

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(Coralie Fargeat, UK/USA/France, 2024)

BY VIOLET LUCCA  |  September 21, 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…

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BY VIOLET LUCCA  |  October 31, 2021

ARTICLE | FIRST BLOOD

Monster Hunting

In a pre-VHS world, BBC2’s Horror Double Bills paved the way for cherished father-bonding and a lifelong love of the creepy unknown.

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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Tangerine Dream’s The Keep

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BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO  |  October 31, 2021

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Fatal Pulse

(Damon Packard, USA, 2018)

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

ARTICLE | STREAMING PILE
Movies ghoulishly suited for imaginative in-house Halloween viewing.

Anyone can watch a hearse-load of scary movies at Halloween—and lots of us do—but how many of those people try...

BY COLIN FLEMING  | OCTOBER 15, 2024

REVIEW
(Coralie Fargeat, UK/USA/France, 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…

BY VIOLET LUCCA  |  September 21, 2024

(Pascal Plante, Canada, 2023)

I first watched Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms months ago upon its Canadian release, and it was with no shortage of dread that I sat down to watch it again in preparation to write this review.

BY MICHAEL KRAS  |  September 6, 2024

INTERVIEW
Movie and life revelations from the actor behind Chucky and other iconic roles of darkness.

I say “hello” into a telephone and Chucky says “hi” back. I realize that I perhaps haven’t adequately prepared myself for what this might feel like.

BY FRANK FALISI  |  September 3, 2024

ARTICLE | EMBODIMENTS OF EVIL
The actor’s Oscar-nominated, atypically sinister turn supports the notion that unassuming fellows are often the ones to fear most.

After he’d fundamentally abandoned Hollywood moviemaking and cast his lot...

BY STEVEN MEARS  |  August 20, 2024

GUIDE | UNEARTHED

Viy

(Konstantin Yershov & Georgiy Kropachyov, Soviet Union, 1967)

In 1966, two Moscow film students pitched a horror feature based on a classic Slavic witch tale, Nikolai Gogol’s Viy (1833). The khudsovety (artistic committees) that evaluated film proposals in the USSR...

BY KEVIN McNEER  |  August 6, 2024

ARTICLE | SOUNDS OF VIOLENCE
Renowned composer Toru Takemitsu brought his own brand of sonic fear to the soundtracks of many genre highlights from the Japanese New Wave.

Consider the Dies Irae. Eight dire notes to remind you that you are going to die.

BY TOM PHELAN  |  July 26, 2024

(Damian McCarthy, Ireland, 2024)

In spite of its title, Irish director Damian McCarthy’s latest film Oddity is more familiar than strange—a classic whodunit couched in a haunted-house story with a touch of Gothic—steeped in...

BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO  |  July 19, 2024

Longlegs carries forward Osgood Perkins’s ethereal cinema of dark isolation.

About a decade ago, an intriguing new contender stepped into the horror arena. It wasn’t so much a grandstanding moment as a quiet entrance...

BY LAURA KERN  | July 12, 2024

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(Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, Austria/Germany, 2024)

Set in the mist-shrouded woods of Upper Austria in the 18th century, the latest film from writer/director duo Veronika Franz and Severin...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  June 28, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Bryan Bertino, USA, 2008)

“Because you were home.” That’s it. The best home-invasion movie ever made is built on a foundation of senselessness. There are people in your house trying to kill you...

BY LAURA WYNNE  |  May 22, 2024

INTERVIEW
The versatile actress talks about her transformative collaboration with Mike Flanagan, working with her life partner Sebastián Gutiérrez, character-building, and hauntings.

Though she’s not generally counted among the canon of horror’s distinguished...

BY KELLI WESTON  |  May 9, 2024

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(Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, UK, 2023)

Done right, a movie can conjure feelings you typically wouldn’t have—or, in the case of many dark genre works, ones you absolutely don’t want. The powerhouse Femme...

BY LAURA KERN  |  March 29, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, Spain, 2007)

Seen from the vantage point of the present, any film with the barest hint of a quarantine narrative can only remind its audience of the COVID pandemic.

BY NICHOLAS RUSSELL  |  March 22, 2024

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, USA, 1944)

At this crazy moment, when film history is caught in the grip of multiple clichés that grind on and on and on—puerile revenge...

BY KENT JONES  |  September 10, 2023