Interviews

The Scout is a found footage horror film that takes the perspective of an in-progress, behind-the-scenes documentary on a fictional, micro budget horror film gone wrong. We wanted to share our chat with Writer/Director Michael Kallio about the film. PopHorror: Hi Michael! Thank you so much for agreeing to do …

I love a movie with a strong female character at its core, especially when it’s a survival story and she’s kicking ass. That’s what I loved most about The Last Victim. Oh, and the dog, Waldo. Naveen Chathapuram’s directorial debut is a neo-western thriller about a woman (Ali Larter) fighting …

I miss living in the Midwest during autumn. I miss October in Ohio and the Halloween festivities. When I was in high school, one of the most popular Halloween attractions was the “haunted” cornfield a few towns over. I preferred it over your typical haunted house, and while we do …

Now available to purchase through TetroVideo or stream through AngerMan Distribution is the dark and surreal film, Blood for Flesh (Sangre Para La Carne). In this experimental endeavor, Mexican filmmaker Alex Hernández brings us uncomfortably close to being in a waking nightmare.  Synopsis: A strange family relationship would be violated when …

What does an evil substitute teacher, killer bridesmaids, and demonic puppet all have in common? They’re part of the amazingly bizarre new project, A Comedy Of Horrors, Volume 1, from Dan DeLuca (The Wire) and Ken Arnold (House of Cards), along with Matt Servitto (The Sopranos). This latest release comes …

I miss living in the Midwest during autumn. I miss October in Ohio and the Halloween festivities. When I was in high school, one of the most popular Halloween attractions was the “haunted” cornfield a few towns over. I preferred it over your typical haunted house, and while we do …

Addison Binek’s Psycho Ape! might seem like just another goofy, low-budget horror spoof… well, okay. It is. But sometimes that’s what a person wants to see! The movie is intensely self-aware, always making it clear that it’s about a Psycho Ape (Stephen Albers) going around killing people. However, there is …

It’s been a long time that a movie has stuck with me quite like how Jean-Christopher Meurisse’s French flick, Bloody Oranges, is still on my mind many months after first watching it. The film is being marketed as a dark comedy. Yes, it does have some pretty good comedic elements. …

This past year has been ripe with unique and mind-bending horror films, and I want to devour them all. Hatching, a new Finnish body horror movie written by Ilja Rautsi, is a far cry from the cookie cutter scary films that have been churned out in bulk lately. And if …

I got the opportunity to sit down with Jay Cheel and Brian Robertson, the creators of Cursed Films, a standout series on Shudder about sets of famous films that have dark events connected to them. Jay writes and directs the series, while Brian produces it. Cursed Films has just begun it’s …