I first saw Candyman in high school, on a VHS from the local video store, where my friends and I rented three to five films every weekend to watch in the dorm on our prohibited TV/VCR combo...
BY RUFUS DE RHAM | November 15, 2025
Leningrad, 1938. The Stalinist purges are in full swing, and the...
BY KEVIN McNEER | November 14, 2025
Four years after he put aside the satirical, political experiments that defined his early career to make his first true thriller, the macabre and meticulously Hitchcockian Sisters (1972), Brian De Palma released...
BY MICHAEL KORESKY | June 14, 2022
For all of Hammer’s reliance on its tried-and-true monsters, the studio did a fair amount of foraying. Hammer horror could take myriad forms beyond beyond...
BY COLIN FLEMING | December 31, 2024
Directors love Magritte. William Friedkin modeled the iconic...
BY LAURA WYNNE | October 17, 2024
For all the freaky poltergeist activity and vivid visions of murder to come, The Changeling (1980) dispatches its most abysmal horrors in its opening...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | January 24, 2024
Evil kids are a tried-and-true horror staple responsible for some legit masterpieces—The Bad Seed, The Exorcist, The Omen...
BY LAURA KERN | January 2, 2026
To me, the best killer Santa is the one played by Larry Drake in Robert Zemeckis’s 1989 Tales from the Crypt episode...
BY RUFUS DE RHAM | December 26, 2025
Christmas: a dream for some, a nightmare for others, and conceivably either for each of us, depending upon the time in life.
BY COLIN FLEMING | January 1, 2026
The aim of slashers—at least in their early days—was to shock. They weaponized their newness and how they broke with films of the past, in which the gory...
BY COLIN FLEMING | December 25, 2025
After the relative success of American International Pictures’ 1963 release of Roger Corman’s The Raven, the studio quickly...
BY ANN OLSSON | October 23, 2024
Male buddy movies are a dime a dozen, yet finding memorable female screen teams is as difficult as securing a good therapist, doctor, lover, or any other real-world rarity.
BY LAURA KERN | November 12, 2025
The aging antiques dealer discovers the device in the hollow of an archangel statue. The device was forged over 400 years previous by an alchemist...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | December 28, 2025
Not just a key figure in the emergence of the J-horror movement, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is also a contender for the most important filmmaker...
BY LAURA KERN | July 15, 2022
At this crazy moment, when film history is caught in the grip of multiple clichés that grind on...
BY KENT JONES | September 10, 2023
