Events

Part one of my shorts coverage of Nightmares Film Festival 2019 can be found here. These are the remaining shorts that I watched, though the list of great ones to see is much longer than the fraction of titles I was able to absorb. Prior to the first film on …

The horror genre has a fascination with teens. Whether werewolf, ghost, masked killer or clown, the threat always comes for teenagers first if it can. I believe the teen is most often burned on horror’s bier because of their uncertainty. They are children in many ways, but on the cusp …

November 3, 2019, was the last day of the 53rd edition of the Lucca Comics and Games Festival, which had a record of 270,000 tickets sold. “Every year, the festival transforms the medieval Italian town of Lucca into the cradle of pop culture, gathering a growing number of comics, board …

With Stranger Things, Tigers Are Not Afraid, (read our reviews here and here) and It (read our reviews here and here), people are rediscovering the terrifying magic of being a child. More than being vulnerable, the willingness in children to believe in the fantastical creates a grounded atmosphere for nightmares to …

Just as Halloween looms on the horizon, Bingemans Screampark in Kitchener Ontario, Canada brings yet another season of screams and scares to an end. I was lucky enough to be sent on behalf of PopHorror to test my mettle against the onslaught of chills and thrills that Bingemans Screampark had …

Puppet Killer is the new horror-comedy by Canadian director Lisa Ovies with a screenplay by Kevin Mosley. The film stars Aleks Paunovic, Lee Majdoub, Lisa Durupt, Richard Harmon, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Kyle Cassie, and Geoff Gustafson. The film received its US premiere as well as The Best of the Fest …

The most frequent lament I heard this past weekend at the Nightmares Film Festival was the inability to clone oneself. With four days, two screens, hundreds of great conversations, 155 shorts, and 23 feature films, astral projection would have been the only way to view all of the films from …

Be sure to check out the first part of my review of Halloween Horror Nights 29, and then continue on right here! Haunted Houses The ten haunted houses of Halloween Horror Nights 28 were split clean down the middle – five based on movies and TV shows, five based on …

Rotten Manor isn’t what you’d expect from a haunted attraction; it’s so much more than that. You’ll want to clear your schedules for this one, because once it lures you onto its grounds, you won’t want to leave. Pulling up to Rotten Manor, you’re met with a breathtaking view of …

On October 23, 2019, we get to celebrate the 60th birthday of a true cinematic icon, the one and only Sam Raimi. This is a particularly big deal for myself, as Sam is the director and creator of my favorite horror franchise of all time, the one series that has …