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I am a short fiction aficionado. This, of course, includes short films. I absolutely love watching and reviewing short films. It’s one of my favorite things I get to do here at PopHorror.  We are fans of Sean Temple and Sarah Wisner’s short film, Water Horse (2019): you may read …

The Portrait, written by David Griffiths and directed by Simon Ross, and with a stacked cast of Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Natalia Cordova-Buckley (Coco), Virgina Madsen (Candyman – 1992), and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Dead Man on Campus – 1998), snuck up on me. The mystery thriller, cloaked in grief, weaves its …

Give me all the Christmas horror. Watching Christmas horror movies is one of my favorite ways to get into the holiday spirit. I don’t watch them year-round. No, I save them for this time of year. That’s what makes them so special. This year we’ve been given a new Christmas …

How many excellent films have been cast out as garbage simply because they’re remakes? How many remakes are excellently crafted stand-alone films that would shatter box office records if their predecessors never existed? This is a consideration I want you to make as we take another look at Gus Van …

Nicholas Gyeney’s surreal horror film, The Activated Man, premiered recently at Dances With Films Festival. I was fortunate enough to get a chance to check it out recently when PopHorror interviewed the folks behind the film (interview coming soon – stay tuned). What did I think? Watch the trailer below, …

I unabashedly love crazy films. The more “out there” and gonzo the better. Sometimes you just need to unplug your brain, take a break from the “artsy” stuff, crack a beer, and watch something so profoundly silly that you grin through the entire thing. Repligator, out now on Wild Eye …

Euro-sleaze. Exploitation. Cheesy European action flicks from the 80’s. Whatever you call it, or whatever category you want to lump it into—gimmie more! Back in the golden age of home video, trash was king! Jiggling femme fatales, roided out commandos in tropic jungles, Nazis, crooked cops, all of these and …

Of the many tropes in horror films, I have one that I will never, ever break: never use a Ouija Board. And while plenty of people have seen Ouija and Ouija 2: Origin of Evil, there exists an entire second string of films about summoning spirits – and I watched …

I think filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (read our other interview with him HERE) is pretty versatile when it comes to his film projects. I mean, this is the guy who gave us four Saw movies (II, III, IV, and Spiral) but also a few cult favorite musicals like Repo! The …

Way back when (this was released 15 years ago, hence the anniversary Blu) Trent Haaga, then known primarily for leading the “Diaper Mafia” in The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie wrote a script for a little film called Deadgirl. With it, he made, along with co-directors Marcel Sarmiento (Totem) and …