I’m a huge fan of Deathgasm. I’ve watched it many times since it released and have showed it to my horror loving metalhead friends. I’ve been waiting for a sequel for years and now it’s finally arrived with Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon. Was the sequel worth the 10 year wait? Read …
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Some horror movies want to terrify you. Others want to make you think. Unsavory Elements seems perfectly content to make you laugh, squirm, and occasionally wonder what the hell you’re watching. Set in an Asian brothel, the film delivers a darkly comedic blend of exploitation horror, outrageous violence, and the …
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Halloween II (1981) hits really close to home. Like a ton of people I know, my cousin and I were raised by our grandparents. They worked their fingers to the bone, but every night we both sat with our grandma, and watched a horror movie. I would easily say I …
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I remember going to the video store with my mom one Saturday afternoon around Easter when I was in 7th grade and seeing The Pit on the shelf among several other new releases and knew that I had to see it. I thought that the cover looked awesome and after …
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Some horror films frighten us with monsters, violence, or things lurking in the shadows. Others find their horror in something far more familiar: the human need to be loved, accepted, and understood. Writer/director Cassie Keet’s Abigail Before Beatrice (2025) belongs firmly in the latter category, delivering an intelligent, unsettling, and …
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Most people heading into the woods pack for a hike. The man at the center of The Woods Beckon is preparing for something considerably harder to explain. He must leave his family behind and venture into the wilderness to “transform.” Into what? The film keeps that largely to itself. Stranger …
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There are plenty of film festivals where you can watch movies. The best ones give you something more. At the 2026 HorrOrigins Film Festival in Tucson, Arizona, it was difficult to spend much time between screenings without finding yourself talking to a filmmaker, actor, writer, artist or fellow horror fan. …
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Stephen King presents us with those dreams that just stick with you forever. So many titles have been made into movies, and that’s how you know you are a kick ass author. For me, Thinner is by far the most disturbing Stephen King novel that was made into a film. …
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Blue Velvet is widely regarded as one of director David Lynch’s greatest achievements and one of the defining films of American independent cinema. Blending mystery, psychological thriller, film noir, and surrealism, the film explores the disturbing contrast between the idyllic image of small-town America and the violence and depravity hidden …
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Femme fetales that are a bit out of touch with reality often make the best horror antagonists. Such is the case in Trivial, a 2024 independent horror release that asks the question: “What if a game show had no prizes, only deadly consequences?” Trivial is written and directed by James …
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