Of all the categories of horror films, my heart will always belong to the found footage genre. Of those, I dearly love Stephen Cognetti’s Hell House LLC series, which follows mysterious and deadly events at the Abaddon Hotel in rural New York. After completing the trilogy in 2019, fans may …
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One of the cool things I get to do here at PopHorror is review films. I try to watch films that haven’t been on my radar and I go into them blind. I enjoy the mystery of watching a new film with no expectations and sometimes I get surprised by …
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With The Exorcist: Believer out now, the market seems flooded with possession movies. But everyone elsemight as well go home, because director Demian Rugna (Terrified) has fused extreme gore with cerebral horror and delivered one of the best possession stories of all time with his new film, When Evil Lurks. …
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Of all the horror genres, horror comedy is the most difficult one to pull off successfully. A good horror comedy needs to be able to seamlessly shift between dread to laughter at the right moments. In the case of director Su Kang’s (Han from Fast X) new film, Shaky Shivers, …
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Okay, let’s get real for a moment. The Puppetman is not your generic horror spectacle. Nope. It’s more like a dive into the deep end of malevolence, brought to you by none other than Brandon Christensen, a director who’s got a knack for shaking up the status quo. Imagine this, …
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Dark Star Pictures’ The Elderly, AKA Viejos, is a Spanish psychological horror film directed by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez (read our interview with him HERE), whose sci fi horror debut, The Passenger, premiered at Sitges Film Festival 2021. The script was written by Cerezo, Javier Trigales (El Semblante …
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to dust off those old DVDs, and PlayStation 2’s, because we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of a cult classic – House of the Dead! The film was directed by the infamous Uwe Boll and unleashed upon the world in 2003. It was a time of …
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Was it really 36 years ago?!? Holy shit, do I feel old! Yes, 36 years ago, Charles Band’s Empire Pictures unleashed a second entry into the little demon franchise. With his father Albert (Dracula’s Dog) directing, and the triumvirate of Charlie Dolan, Luca Bercovici (director of Ghoulies) and Dennis Paoli …
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I’m going to start with this: if you’re checking out Divinity, please keep an open mind. And don’t let that opening statement scare you off either. Or, maybe do, because if that statement would put you off from seeing a film, you wouldn’t enjoy it anyway. Divinity Synopsis In an …
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A group of friends set out to Bell Lake to film a documentary on the local legend of The Bell Keeper, but they get more than they bargained for when they find out how much truth there is to the legend. The Bell Keeper, directed by Colton Tran, brings together a …
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