Editorials

Sounds odd, doesn’t it? The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horrifying film, yet such a warm and fuzzy title. This is a very personal movie to me. It starts out when I was a kid living in Indiana around the age of twelve or thirteen. Mind you, this was back …

It seems the IT remake is still causing a bit of controversy. Recently, I viewed a blogger’s article that basically stated that Tim Curry wasn’t a good Pennywise. I wanted to talk more about that statement and why it isn’t entirely accurate.  First off, Tim Curry’s performance was the best …

As horror fans, we have seen it all. From blood sucking vampires, demonic poltergeists, to real-life, sadistic serial killers, evil proves it can take on many forms. However, there is one evil I find to be more unsettling than most: children who kill. Kids are supposed to be pure and innocent, …

I know the traditional concept of horror involves blood, guts, and a madman on the loose… but I believe horror is subjective. Although monsters, ghosts, and serial killers can be scary, to me, true horror is often based on real life situations that most of us hope would never happen. Suicide, …

In case you guys didn’t know, it’s the year of the clown, baby! Although clown films are released all the time, it’s not ever year that two highly anticipated ones are coming out one right after the other another: Crepitus and IT. You can smell the coulrophobia in the air and the sounds …

When you ask me what my favorite horror movie is, you are opening a deep, dark well into my mind where I could choose a different film every time you ask. However, there is a genre of film that I always go back to and that is Italian cinema. Since …

As a child, it was not uncommon for me to see franchises out of order. After all, beggars can’t be choosers and I was not in a bargaining position. I think that is where my love of sequels started. Tremors 2: Aftershocks was one of those films. Released on April 9, …

If cinema is a circus, then it needs a ringmaster. Choosing such a leader is often a Herculean task involving cool heads and tough questions. But, when we’re talking about popular cinema, there’s only a handful of honest candidates. And out of them, there’s really one, obvious, correct answer. Thankfully, …

Let’s talk, you and I, about legends. Let’s talk about tall tales and folklore and myths. Now that we’re all in the right state of mind, let’s talk about Lon Chaney. Born to deaf and mute parents in 1883, Leonidas Frank Chaney became one of the most prolific and talented …

In the 1980s, horror had a genre explosion like we’ve never seen before or since. This seemingly unhinged growth in the movie world owes everything to one subgenre: slashers. There were so many slashers. According to IMDb user CaptainCracker, between 1980 and 1989 there were roughly 293 slasher films produced and distributed. …