In the discussion of the ’80s being the golden age of horror, Bad Dreamsis far too often left out of the conversation.
BY LAURA KERN | March 28, 2025
Beast is a lot of movies in one package—fractured fairy tale, belated-coming-of-age story, psychological drama...
BY STEVEN MEARS | October 31, 2021
Zhae-won (Ji Seong-won) works at a bank in Seoul, a hyper-competitive and male-dominated space that leaves her stressed...
BY RUFUS DE RHAM | November 11, 2024
Even after the financial success of Tim Burton’s 1985 feature debut, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Warner Bros. rejected his vision for...
BY ANN OLSSON | March 17, 2023
Timothy Leary taught us that set and setting are critical to determining the shape of any mind-altering experience.
BY TOM PHELAN | November 5, 2025
The camera floats just a little behind and a little above the figure of a man running through Central Park. In this, Birth’s overture...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 31, 2022
A paragon of queer perversity, Edgar G. Ulmer’s unfathomable Universal horror hit gave major stars Bela Lugosi and Boris...
BY MICHAEL KORESKY | June 13, 2022
Despite what’s tantamount to a subgenre of macabre offerings suggesting otherwise, Edgar Allan Poe isn’t an author whose work readily lends itself...
BY COLIN FLEMING | November 2, 2025
There are horror movies in which Christmas is present, as if incidentally, and there are horror movies in which Christmas is the crux.
BY COLIN FLEMING | December 23, 2024
Mario Bava was a living embodiment of Italian genre cinema, working credited and uncredited on nearly a hundred films.
BY LAURA WYNNE | April 5, 2024
More an homage than a direct remake, Chuck Russell’s The Blob is distinctly ’80s but with a ’50s soul. The 1958 original is straight sci-fi schlock...
BY LAURA KERN | November 9, 2025
Blue Beard is a glutton. He likes food and female orifices, in that order, which doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a major thing for the latter in this early 1901...
BY COLIN FLEMING | February 16, 2025
Robert Wise—director of the two best Broadway-on-celluloid adaptations in human history—attempts and achieves the improbable here...
BY FRANK FALISI | November 4, 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...
BY RUFUS DE RHAM | August 15, 2025
It’s a lovely day, and there you are motoring with your lady on the way back to your laboratory, where you keep hunks of flesh...
BY COLIN FLEMING | February 18, 2025
The shadowy figure of Rondo Hatton creeps appropriately over the opening-credits sequences of both House of Horrors and...
BY LAURA KERN | October 27, 2024
The premise alone is cinematic gold. It’s the early 21st century and Elvis (a heavily made-up Bruce Campbell) is alive, unwell, and confined to a dilapidated...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 25, 2024
It’s a lovely day, and there you are motoring with your lady on the way back to your laboratory, where you keep hunks of flesh...
BY COLIN FLEMING | February 18, 2025
The shadowy figure of Rondo Hatton creeps appropriately over the opening-credits sequences of both House of Horrors and...
BY LAURA KERN | October 27, 2024
