The homemade aesthetic of no budget indie horror flicks has long had an appeal to me. They have a different flavor from their more polished and conventionally made brethren. I also love seeing my longtime home of Columbus, Ohio, onscreen since it doesn’t happen very often. I’m sure most American …

I just finished up my third reading of writer/artist Charles Forsman’s graphic novel, Slasher (Floating World Comics 2018), and I’m honestly not sure the narrative completely works. I’m also not sure I care, as it adds to the queasy disorientation of the piece. I can legitimately say it’s one of …

I had very little interest in seeing Richard Crudo’s Against the Dark (2009) until recently. Way past his prime Steven Seagal (Above the Law 1988) fighting vampires in a direct-to-video release? However, over the last several months, I’ve gotten to know Mathew Klickstein, the guy credited for the script. Mathew Klickstein …

Created by comic book gods Len Wein (who also co-created Marvel’s Wolverine) and Bernie Wrightson (illustrator of Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf 1983), horror icon Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing (1982) loosely adapts the early part of their published run. Finding a balance between camp and horror, Craven (A Nightmare on …

Filmmaking collective Astron-6—Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matt Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, and Steven Kostanski—have produced some highly entertaining flicks in the last decade. Though now dissolved, members of the group have continued to produce quality content. For example, 2016’s The Void (read our review here), co-directed by Gillespie and Kostanski, was …

As is tradition for new writers at PopHorror, I was tasked with writing a piece on my favorite film as a sort of introduction to the site’s readers. I fretted. My two favorite flicks are George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead and John Carpenter’s The Thing, two classic works …