A few weeks ago, Bang Zoom! Studios released the season finale of their cinematic horror audio anthology, The Strange Thing About… titled, The Strange Thing About the Garden. In the spirit of classic anthology horror, The Strange Thing About… drops listeners into self-contained nightmares built around cinematic sound design, original …

Something I did not expect this year was for the writer and director of Thankskilling to make one of my favorite movies of 2026. Jordan Downey’s (read our interview with him HERE) The Cycle (read our review HERE) is a fresh new horror film that just premiered on Shudder this …

Something I did not expect this year was for the writer and director of Thankskilling to make one of my favorite movies of 2026. Jordan Downey’s The Cycle is a fresh new horror film that just premiered on Shudder this weekend and it’s so fucking good I watched my screener …

Katherine Daniel’s debut book, When the Night Comes Knocking is everything I love in a book: a group of people locked inside one location with no means to escape. In this case, it’s a convenience store on a mountain in the woods while a creature borne in folklore stalks them …

Mike Flanagan’s new series, a reimagining of the Stephen King book, Carrie, brings the tortured title character into the 21st century and I, for one, am here for it. All of it. I am a big fan of modernizing these beloved stories and making them relevant for today. Lots of …

Musician Tim Kasher (frontman of bands Cursive, and the Good Life – read our interview with him HERE) has made one of my favorite movies of the year, Who’s Watching. It takes a lot to make me uncomfortable and fuck, man. Who’s Watching made me so physically uncomfortable that I …

Musician Tim Kasher (frontman of bands Cursive, and the Good Life) has made one of my favorite movies of the year, Who’s Watching. It takes a lot to make me uncomfortable and fuck, man. Who’s Watching made me so physically uncomfortable that I found myself yelling at the screen through …

Every time I cover the Fantasia International Film Festival, I know I’m going to find some hidden gems, instant classics, and all-around amazing genre programming, and 2026, which is Fantasia’s 30th year, has come through in spades. One of the most unique and unexpected films I viewed this year is the …

Hot Spot, the new dystopian detective thriller by Agnieszka Smoczyńska (The Lure) and written by Robert Bolesto (The Lure), is one of the most unique and creative futuristic movies I’ve ever seen. It’s set in a world where AI is required and those who don’t fall in line with it …

Last year, director Eli Craig released his film, Clown in a Cornfield, a new teen slasher about a murderous clown in a small town. What some people may not know is that Clown in a Cornfield is the brainchild of author Adam Cesare who wrote the first book in the …