Interviews

I have to say… Director Gore Verbinski (Read our interview with him HERE) choosing Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die for his first film in nine years was the absolute best thing to do. We last saw Gore with 2016’s A Cure for Wellness and fans have been waiting impatiently for his next …

I have to say… Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring – 2002) choosing Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die for his first film in nine years was the absolute best thing to do. We last saw Gore with 2016’s A Cure for Wellness and fans have been waiting impatiently for his next project. And he’s so …

With The Huntsman, filmmaker Kyle Kauwika Harris brings Judith Sanders’ novel to the screen as a quiet, morally complex thriller rooted in ambiguity and character. Pop Horror spoke with Harris about discovering the project, reshaping it for Oklahoma, avoiding gratuitous violence, and the improvisational moments that made it into the …

Show me a book full of isolation horror and queer characters and set it at a sleepaway camp and I am one hundred percent in. You have my full attention. This brings us to Christina Ferko’s debut horror novel, The Darkness Greeted Her. A flawed heroine, trauma, grief, murder and death… …

I have to say… Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring – 2002) choosing Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die for his first film in nine years was the absolute best thing to do. We last saw Gore with 2016’s A Cure for Wellness and fans have been waiting impatiently for his …

For Shields, their new album Death & Connection wouldn’t exist if they hadn’t spent years apart. In 2018, the U.K. metalcore band quietly stepped away from the industry following the devastating death of their guitarist George Christie, who took his own life. This unbearable loss — and indefinite hiatus — came …

Calling All Captains may fiercely clash over one thing — whether Green Day or Blink-182 is the superior pop-punk pioneer of the early ’90s — but when it comes to making their own music, they’re in perfect harmony. On Jan. 9, the Edmonton-based four-piece released The Things That I’ve Lost — …

A few years ago, I randomly read The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James and boy, am I glad I did. It opened me up to a whole new world of chilling ghostly stories that I have come to look forward to whenever I hear that Simone has …

Travis Sedg Bacon has quietly carved out a space for himself in the darker corners of music and film — not by following tradition, but by actively pushing against it. Known for his work in the industrial metal band CONTRACULT and for composing genre-bending scores for film and television, Bacon …

Before he ever stepped foot in Derry, Miles Ekhardt was an avid theater kid. With a stint as the frail yet faithful Tiny Tim in a touring production of A Christmas Carol marking his breakout performance, he’s no stranger to acting opposite the central villain of a story. But in HBO’s …