Editorials

My Top 10 Favorite Vincent Cassel Roles

Vincent Cassel

Vincent Cassel is not your typical-looking leading man, with a long, hawklike face and a history of tough guy roles. But whatever he lacks in stereotypical good looks he makes up for a million times in his own brand of casual charisma. He’s played the villain more often than the …

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Stephen King’s ‘SALEM’S LOT’ (1975): King’s Favorite Book

Salem's Lot

Picking up where we left off last month, 26-year-old writer Stephen King rolled the dice with his first novel Carrie in 1974. When all was said and done, King had collected $200,000 ($1.8 million today) for his efforts. Now the question was could he follow it up? King himself feared …

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‘CRITTERS 2’ (1988) Serves Up More than ‘The Main Course’ – 35 Years Later

Critters 2

Fun Fact: Not Just Slang for Nethers, Tehachapi is Also a Town! 35 years ago the sequel to Critters was released. Critters 2: The Main Course, is one of those sequels I list as ‘just as good if not better than the original’. It was Mick Garris’s directorial debut and …

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‘EDWARD SCISSORHANDS’ (1990) and His Dad’s Interesting Creative Choice

Edward Scissorhands

Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands brilliantly showcases Tim Burton’s ability to seamlessly blend the fantastical with the mundane, as a bizarre humanoid invention named Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) ends up venturing into suburbia. Edward had been invented by an unknown old man simply called “The Inventor” (Vincent Price), who had temporarily …

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‘THE SHINING’ (1980) and a Father-Son Relationship Gone Awry

Near the intro of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (read our retro review here), we already get the sense that Danny (Danny Lloyd) and Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) have a strained father/son relationship. In addition, the two, along with mother and wife Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall), eventually meet a series of …

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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Trailer Looks Prime For Theaters This Summer

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Coming this summer is the newest installment in the Transformers franchise; Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Creed 2 director Steven Caple Jr. will be the first to helm a core Transformers movie not named Michael Bay, but he’s not a complete stranger to the property having previously worked on the …

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Horror Movie Heroes vs. Monsters From Other Franchises

We here at PopHorror were thinking: what would it be like if horror movie heroes took on other monsters that are not from their universe? We decided to compile a list of heroes and who we’d like to see them match up against. FIGHT! Hero vs. Monster Gale Weathers from …

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The Social Commentary Beneath Horror Movies – Editorial

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out, 2017

Jordan Peele, the American filmmaker, actor, and comedian, said this in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2017, following the release of his directorial debut Get Out. “The horror genre is a perfect tool for exploring social commentary because it’s such a primal, visceral genre. It taps into our deepest …

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