When I first saw 2015’s Frances Stein, I knew right away that Big Biting Pig Productions, the people behind the film, were on to something. The way they took something as iconic as the classic Frankenstein story and not only modernized it but gave it one hell of a twist …
Read More »Black Forest (2015) – Movie Review
When I first received Black Forest in the mail, I had no idea what to expect. I went into this movie nearly blind. All I knew was that Distant Field Productions’s David Briggs had directed it and that there were girls and possible a forest involved in some way. But girls …
Read More »Lavender (2017) – Movie Review
Canadian filmmaker Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City 2007, Small Town Murder Songs 2010) didn’t have much luck entering the horror field when he made The Last Exorcism II in 2013, a film mostly forgotten by genre fans. Four years later, Gass-Donnelly is back with psychological ghost story Lavender. Did he …
Read More »The Many Horrors of ‘Santa Clarita Diet’s’ Drew Barrymore
With the February 3rd release of Netflix’s zombie comedy series Santa Clarita Diet, Drew Barrymore has once again come back to her horror roots. Although she hasn’t done much in the way of terror in the past few years, in Drew’s early career, she was the face of fear on the movie …
Read More »PopHorror’s Top 8 Horror Movie Boarding Schools From Hell
This March 31, the horror thriller The Blackcoat’s Daughter will debut in theaters across the country and is now available exclusively on DirecTV. The film, which is directed by Osgood “Oz” Perkins (I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House 2016) and stars Emma Roberts (American Horror Story TV series) …
Read More »Help Make Animated Horror Anthology ‘Chilling Tales For Dark Nights’
Remember when you were a kid and you’d huddle up under the blankets on your bed, armed with only a flashlight, and avoid sleep by reading Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark? Maybe you’ve since spent a few countless hours listening to the endless dark and twisted tales on …
Read More »Stephen King’s Castle Rock Coming To A TV Screen Near You!
Castle Rock… to Stephen King fans, the name of this town sends shivers down their spines. So many of the Master of Horror’s stories have been set in this creepy, fictitious little suburb of Portland, Maine, and quite a few of them have been made for the silver screen, including …
Read More »Nightblade (2016) – Murder Mystery Movie Review
From Los Bastardz Productions comes the latest in murder mystery slashers. Nightblade tells the story of three childhood friends trying to hunt down a knife-wielding maniac who seems to want them – and everyone they know – dead in a puddle of their own gore. Will they survive long enough …
Read More »Run (2016) Demonic Horror Short Review
Like many of the writers here at PopHorror, I love horror shorts. They not only offer a bite sized chunk of scares but they also only require a fraction of the time investment of a full length feature and you don’t have to wait long for the good stuff. I’ll …
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