Horror has evolved a lot in the decades, but that doesn’t mean that it’s for the better. Horror movies began their inception with practical effects that shocked and terrified audiences with makeup, dark themes, fake blood and invisible wires. Some of the wires in those movies were somewhat visible, to …
Read More »How the ‘WICKED’ Sequel Could Work As A Horror Movie
By this time everyone has already seen the groundbreaking musical adaptation of Wicked and it has certainly defied gravity all on its own. Cynthia Erivo is so magnetic as Elphaba Thropp that her performance manages to set a new standard for leading women in musicals. However, with its sequel Wicked: …
Read More »Thordur Palsson’s ‘THE DAMNED’ (2025) – Review
It’s fair to say that most people will never understand the hard cold or of living off your own kill and possibly starving if you don’t hunt. Evidently, Thordur Palsson’s film The Damned reveals things like that and more. The film revolves around a small group of people in the …
Read More »Andrew Bell’s ‘BLEEDING’ (2024) – Movie Review
I’ve seen good films and I’ve seen bad films. This is, indeed, not a good film by any stretch of the imagination. Evidently, a new drug that is adjacent to vampire blood is being bought and sold on the black market for profit and pleasure, which already sounds like something …
Read More »Marielle Heller’s ‘NIGHTBITCH’ (2024) – Movie Review
There are movies that can exceed expectations and then there are movies that don’t do anything other than exist and fulfill a slot in theaters and a resume-builder for some actors. Nightbitch is the latter of the two options. The story centers around a middle-aged mother named…..Mother. That’s her name …
Read More »Why ‘THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY’ (1945) Is Uniquely Terrifying
When people think of horror movies, they might think of Universal Monsters, 2000s campy, scary movies or comedy horror movies. You might not think of Albert Lewin’s 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray. It might seem like a random pick for a terrifying horror movie, but it certainly checks …
Read More »Why the New ‘IT’ Series on Max is a Bad Idea
As you may have heard by now, HBO Max, or Max, has greenlit a new project entitled It: Welcome to Derry and it is set to take place in the 1960s before the events of the first film. A lot of fans have expressed their excitement about the show but …
Read More »Blasphemy? Why ‘THE EXORCIST’ (1973) Is Not Scary
Yes, the movie is over 50 years old, but it’s only fair that we discuss this scary – or unscary – issue. The Exorcist is not scary. At least, it’s not scary…anymore. Let me elaborate! When it was released in 1973, the film was considered to be one of the …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie – ‘The Shining’ (1980)
My favorite horror movie may be hands down, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s really not hard to figure out why that is when I go over this Kubrick masterpiece. Jack Nicholson portrays Jack Torrance, a struggling writer, who takes on a position to look after the Overlook Hotel where he …
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