Reviews

Okay, imagine that you’re a teenager again (16-ish). You just walked into your friendly neighborhood video store to rent a VHS tape for the weekend (yes, I’m old). You stride on over to the horror section ready to grab Friday the 13th: Part 3 again, because hey, it’s a safe …

This month Pophorror is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of a cult classic: The Entity. Based on a ‘true’ story, the film was released by 20th Century Fox on February 4th, 1983, following a U.K release the previous year, by bankrupted production company American Cinema Productions. Because the …

I love animated films. You can create so much with animation—animals, explosions, car chases, and of course, bloody gruesome deaths—without the added expense of traveling, location scouting, permits, lodging… Sure, it might not have the same impact on your audience, especially if they’re the kind of people who think “cartoons …

When the promos dropped for Smile, I instantly felt great vibes about the movie. ” What’s that? The monster is something only I can see, and it blankly smiles at me? Okay, that’s creepy… I’m in!” What can I say? I’m a sucker for new ideas in my favorite genre, …

2022 was another great year for horror titles, so it wasn’t easy when I had to pick just one. However, one film that I couldn’t stop talking about as soon as the credits rolled was Zack Cregger’s (Whitest kids you know, Wrecked) Barbarian.  The Setup Right away we meet Young …

Sometimes the pieces of art that hit us the hardest are the ones that we can most relate to in our own personal experiences. Above all else, that’s the mark that Alice, Darling strives to reach. Movies in the horror and thriller genres that premiere early in the year often hold the …

I’m no prude, certainly, but once I left my teen years I started to veer away from sexploitation more and more. Occasionally you’d get a funny one, but after a while, they seemed like the majority of directors wanted to see boobs in exchange for promises of possible future returns …

The tagline for Italian directing trio T3’s SOUND OF SILENCE (2023) promises: “A chilling and stylish haunted house horror movie with a twist in the vein of The Conjuring and Oculus.” That was enough to sell me on the idea of catching this new offering from XYZ Films. Did it …

For shady businessman Grant Herman, suicide seemed an easy exit out of his failing life. But leaving his past behind is never that easy… Director Jason Burke (A Mother’s Dying Wish, read our review here) explores this in his new short film A Soul’s Window. Here’s a look at the …

I grew up in a generation that feared three things: Quicksand, leeches, and the Bermuda Triangle. I never really thought that past the Triangle there was an island. Bermuda Island is the latest Mahal Empire adventure. An intriguing title that definitely caught my attention. To be honest, after reviewing both …