I absolutely love horror shorts. They’re like bite-sized chunks of terror that deliver a pitiless punch in just a fraction of the time a full length genre film. But, because of their short time frame, the filmmaker is usually limited as to what they can actually touch upon. However, in …
Read More »BHFF 2018: ‘Laugh Now Die Later’ Shorts Block Review
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a sucker for horror comedies. There’s just something gratifying about a genre flick that can laugh at itself. So it was my absolute pleasure to be able to review Laugh Now Die Later Shorts Block, the horror comedy block from this year’s Brooklyn Horror …
Read More »A Message From Ryan Swantek On His Short, ‘5:29 See the Devil’s Eyes’
A few days ago, we shared with our Facebook followers the newest horror short from Filmmaker Ryan Swantek (read our interview with him here), the man behind one of my favorite shorts ever, White Willow (2017 – read our review here), and his sophomoric effort, Panther Ridge (2018 – read …
Read More »BHFF 2018: ‘Empathy Inc.’ Movie Review
For this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, I decided to shift a bit out of my comfort zone and review a sci-fi film. I’ve never been a fan of science fiction, so picking Rigel Films’ sci-fi thriller, Empathy Inc., was a tricky decision from the start. So, was it a good …
Read More »Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Freaks’ (2018) – A Genre-Reshaping Movie Review
When I first read about Filmmaker Zach Lipovsky’s (Afflicted 2013) film, Freaks, I made a few assumptions about what I was about to watch. I assumed it was about a little girl breaking free from her paranoid father’s grasp and discovering the world for the first time like the little …
Read More »‘Nonsomnia’ by Maria Raven – Book Review
From Austin Macauley Publishers comes Nonsomnia, a collection of short stories by Russian author Maria Raven. Now living on Cyprus, Raven moved after a difficult childhood filled with years of both medical and psychological treatment, the result of being a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. She began writing at …
Read More »Horror Anthology ‘Blood Clots’ (2018) Gorges on Gore
As our longtime readers know, we at PopHorror are huge fans of horror anthologies, and we’re not alone. In recent years, there has been an uprising in anthologies, full-length films that are compiled of short films, usually created by completely different casts and crews, which offer up a a series …
Read More »Interview With ‘The Ranger’ Director Jenn Wexler
It was back in March when I first heard about the movie, The Ranger. I knew that it was a project coming out of Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, and that it was a throwback slasher about kids in the woods being stalked by a psycho in a Ranger Smith …
Read More »‘The Ranger’ (2018) – ‘Green Room’ Meets ‘Maniac Cop’ Movie Review
In Jenn Wexler’s film, The Ranger, a group of teens take off into the woods to party and piss off the locals. Sound familiar? On the surface, The Ranger does have a lot in common with many of the cabin in the woods slasher subgenre flicks that we’ve seen over …
Read More »From Music to Style, ‘Summer of 84’ Screams 1980s
When I first watched Summer of 84, the brilliant retro thriller from Roadkill Superstar Films (RKSS), I fell in love with the deep-seated mystery, the film’s oppressive air of dread and trepidation and the maturity-demanding exploits that the four boys in the film were fated to undertake. It wasn’t until after …
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