The Devil’s Carnival is one of those films that you stumble upon. It is that old book in the attic you notice after living in the house for 10 years. I myself found it by scrolling through Netflix and it caught my eye. After reading the description, I felt compelled to …
Read More »Time Lapse (2015) Movie Review: Don’t Mess with Time
With cult classics such as Alien, The Thing, The Fly and From Beyond leaving their mark in horror history, it comes as no surprise that science fiction has its own niche within the genre. While Time Lapse pales in comparison to these timeless classics, it holds its own by incorporating …
Read More »Leprechaun 3 (1995) Retro Review
The term “horror comedy” is thrown around a lot these days. Some are legitimately funny such as Tucker & Dale vs Evil and Shaun of The Dead, but if you want a true horror comedy, check out Leprechaun 3. Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and written by David Dubos and Mark Jones, …
Read More »Pitfire of Hell (2016) Movie Review
Last year when I first started reviewing films on my blog, I had the pleasure of reviewing the micro budget indie horror anthology Pitfire of Hell. I figured since the film doesn’t get near enough love (and because my writing doesn’t suck near as bad now) I would take the opportunity …
Read More »‘Leprechaun 2’ (1994): Blood, Booze, and Boobs – Retro Review
It’s March, which means everything is turning green: green beer, green stockings, green shamrocks and little green leprechauns are prancing around looking for their pot of gold. In honor of the cheeky bastard, PopHorror has decided to look back on each film in the Leprechaun franchise, listing the things we loved and the …
Read More »Don’t Hang Up (2017)- Phoning in a Movie Review
There have been plenty of horror movies that have revolved around a very common device called the telephone… movies like When a Stranger Calls, Black Christmas, One Missed Call and obviously Wes Craven’s 1996 epic slasher film Scream. Is this concept getting too old to keep getting used? Or did 2017’s …
Read More »Celebrating 95 Years of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
I’m a big horror fan, as you well know. I’ve been watching horror movies since the early ’80s, maybe even a little longer. So how is it that I’ve never seen Nosferatu? I’m not sure. I decided to rectify that oversight by sitting down to watch the movie last night on what just …
Read More »Logan (2017): A Dark Journey’s End
You may be wondering how a Marvel film made it onto a website that primarily reviews horror. That would be due to seriously dark undertone and brutality in Logan that is normally held back in most superhero movies, which warrants its R rating. Thanks to Tim Miller’s smash hit Deadpool …
Read More »King Kong (1933) – Retro Review
Eighty-four years ago, a movie directed by Merian C. Cooper hit the big screen and completely changed the course of American history. That movie was King Kong. What can be said about this masterpiece of a movie? A lot. To this day with remakes, reboots, merchandise and video games, King …
Read More »Black Forest (2015) – Movie Review
When I first received Black Forest in the mail, I had no idea what to expect. I went into this movie nearly blind. All I knew was that Distant Field Productions’s David Briggs had directed it and that there were girls and possible a forest involved in some way. But girls …
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