Reviews

Ian Tripp and Ryan Schafer’s Dark Comedy ‘Everybody Dies By the End’ (2023) – Movie Review

Note:  This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Horror comedies can be tough to pull off. The balance …

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The Monster Match: ‘FREDDY VS. JASON’ (2003) – 20 Years Later

Freddy vs. Jason

When you think of the horror genre, two names come to mind almost immediately: Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. For forty years, both have terrorized children and adults alike in their dreams, on the big screen, and in their minds in various capacities. You’d be hard-pressed to go to a …

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‘A Nightmare On Elm Street: Dream Master’ (1988) Turns 35… It Was Almost Very Different!

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master (1988) turns a whopping 35 this year… And in spite of Middle Child Syndrome and all the craziness that went on while trying to put it together, it was one of the more successful releases in the franchise. But it could’ve been …

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Redemption In An Apocalypse: Jim Towns’ Zombie Epic, ‘End Times’ (2023) – Movie Review

Note:  This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts.  There’s a disturbing (at least to a gore aficionado like …

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Pirie Martin’s ‘Psychosis’ (2023) – A Voices In My Head Movie Review

Note:  This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts.  What’s it like to hear voices? Honestly, I can’t even …

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‘MIRRORS’ (2008) turns 15 This Year, But Eisoptrophobia is Much Older

Is It Just Me, Ooooor??? There’s something inherently unsettling about mirrors, to me. It doesn’t help that we play games growing up like Bloody Mary. Then films like ‘Mirror, Mirror’, and ‘Candyman’ added fuel to the already steady burning fire of anxiety. And of course, centuries-old traditions and lores that …

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Review: Sooner or Later, Family Secrets Creep Out in ‘COBWEB’

Cobweb

Note: This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SGA-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, Cobweb, being covered here, wouldn’t exist. New horror films typically do not fly under my radar but occasionally this happens. Cobweb had a limited theatrical release back in …

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Marriage, Pimps, Drugs, Murder, the Mob: Who Says ‘TRUE ROMANCE’ Is Dead?

True Romance

Note: This article was written during the 2023 WGA and SGA-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, True Romance, being covered here, wouldn’t exist. When asked what my favorite romance film is I always gleefully respond, True Romance (1993). Before the grumbling begins, understand …

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Adam Fair’s ‘Piglady’ (2023): Based On True Events – Movie Review

Piglady is a 2023 slasher film from filmmakers Adam Fair and Lyon Mitchell. The film is based on true events, inspired by the Susan Monica murders that took place in Oregon in 2012 and 2013, where a woman fed her murdered farmhands to her pigs. Synopsis: Inspired by true events. …

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Why I Knew I Needed to Read ‘BETA: A Technological Nightmare’ By Sammy Scott – Book Review

Before reading BETA, I knew Sammy Scott was a talented writer. At Home with the Horrors is a hell of a collection, and I quickly fell in love with his writing style. Perfect prose, tension built quietly and at a perfect pace for each story. Unique ideas, and the writing …

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