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I love finding new traditions to celebrate the holidays…especially when these traditions aren’t your average tree lighting or community parade. My latest “must do” for the most wonderful time of the year is see drag superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon in their annual production, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show. Solely …

‘Tis the season to be scary. At least that’s the goal of the newest Shudder original Christmas horror film, The Sacrifice Game. For as many formulaic Hallmark love stories or nostalgic Netflix capers that we get around the Christmas season every year, there are an equal amount of merry massacres and …

About four times per year, the Steel City Con returns to Monroeville, PA with a gigantic list of celebrities and vendors packed to the gills to celebrate all of the greatest fandoms in pop culture. Between celebs, artists, and vendors, there was no shortage of things to occupy the time of …

Being a massive fan of short films, I was thrilled to be offered the chance to review the new film directed by Vanessa Ionta Wright: Sweaty Larry. At a crisp six minutes, this is one of the shortest I’ve reviewed, but it really makes the most of every single second! …

Recently, we’ve been telling you a lot about Hungarian filmmaker Jozsef Gallai and his thought-provoking indie horror projects like I Hear The Trees Whispering, Aftermath, and Project Skyquake. Now, he has a new film called A Stranger In the Woods starring horror indie darlings Bill Oberst, Jr. and Lynn Lowry …

We recently heard that indie horror staple P.J. Starks has a lot of toes in the basket… or something. Well, let’s just say he has a lot going on. And we were thrilled to get the chance to chat with him about it all. PopHorror: Hey PJ! I heard you …

Leave the World Behind (2023) was just released on Netflix. The film has been successfully generating polarized reactions from audiences. Let’s take a deeper look at this new thriller. Synopsis A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bringing news of a blackout. As the threat becomes …

As much as I am a horror nerd, my other Nerddom lies with Star Wars. Star Wars was released the same year I was born. I am a little envious of people who got to experience Star Wars for the first time in 1977. Star Wars changed not only the …

I am a short fiction aficionado. This, of course, includes short films. I absolutely love watching and reviewing short films. It’s one of my favorite things I get to do here at PopHorror.  We are fans of Sean Temple and Sarah Wisner’s short film, Water Horse (2019): you may read …

The Portrait, written by David Griffiths and directed by Simon Ross, and with a stacked cast of Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Natalia Cordova-Buckley (Coco), Virgina Madsen (Candyman – 1992), and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Dead Man on Campus – 1998), snuck up on me. The mystery thriller, cloaked in grief, weaves its …