Interviews

Well friends, it’s the summer so that means one thing – Fantasia! This year, the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada is celebrating its 29th edition and once again showcasing some truly talented genre filmmakers and providing eclectic and explosive viewing material for movie enthusiasts. My next piece out …

Filmmaker Chuck Russell (Nightmare on Elm Street 3) is back in horror! Witchboard is being heralded as his “return to horror.”  A reimagining of the 1986 film of the same name written and directed by Kevin Tenney, this new version is NOTHING like the original, and I think that’s what …

Thanks to bands like Sleep Token and Bad Omens, the once-separate worlds of metalcore and BookTok — TikTok’s obsessive corner of romantasy readers and morally gray heartthrobs — are unexpectedly colliding. With their emotional lyrics, dark aesthetics and brooding masked or tattooed frontmen who could easily pass for fantasy book …

A man comes up to you, a stranger, and says that in his research he’s discovered a cure for cancer. He offers to help you. Would you do it? A quantum physicist develops a machine that creates a tunnel to a subatomic universe. In his quest to prove the machine’s …

The past few months have been the definition of a dream come true for the boys of Australian pop-metalcore band Melrose Avenue. After gaining a loyal fanbase through viral BookTok-coded Reels and TikToks, they proved they have the musical chops to match their sense of humor with a debut U.S. …

Well friends, it’s the summer so that means one thing – Fantasia! This year, the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada is celebrating its 29th edition and once again showcasing some truly talented genre filmmakers and providing eclectic and explosive viewing material for movie enthusiasts. My first piece out …

Now in theaters from Lionsgate and director James DeMonaco (The Purge: Anarchy) is a new thriller: The Home. The film stars Pete Davidson (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies), John Glover (You Bury Your Own), and Bruce Altman (Last Seen Alive). We had a chance recently to sit down with DeMonaco to talk about …

Mark Holton has been in many groundbreaking cinematic experiences, from Leprechaun to Teen Wolf. His work has impacted a lot of fans around the world. With no special genre to answer to, Mark is a top player in Hollywood. You may not recognize his name, but you have probably seen …

I love writing for PopHorror because I get the opportunity to speak to some of my most favorite authors. This time, I got to chat with author Kate Alice Marshall, who wrote the fantastic The Narrow, the sad but triumphant I Am Still Alive, the diabolical No One Can Know, …

Adam Finberg is the writer and director behind the haunting and timely sci-fi drama Star People, which hits theaters on July 25 and arrives on VOD August 12. Set against the sweltering backdrop of the Arizona desert during a deadly heatwave, the film blends real-life mystery with deeply human drama …