PopHorror Let's Get Scared

To most of the world, the idea of a visit to one’s grandmother’s house gets the heart pumping… but more because of the upcoming awesome snacks than any expected bloodshed. In Les Mahoney’s Hitchcockian thriller, At Granny’s House, you’re much more likely to get a little of the former and …

Filmmakers be warned: if you want to make a realistic horror film, make sure your actors and actresses are in on it, or there could be hell to pay. That’s the lesson we see in Mitchell Altieri’s (The Night Watchmen 2017) A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff. After viewing the trailer …

Dan Simmons is one of my favorite authors. His book, Summer of Night, takes the innocence and coming of age story from Stand By Me and wraps it in an otherworldly terror as intense and insane as an entire school foll of Pennywise the Dancing Clowns. So when I had …

Soon to hit the indie scene is a phenomenal coming-of-age horror by filmmaker Fritz Böhm called Wildling. In this full-feature directorial debut starring Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Brad Dourif (Child’s Play, Rob Zombie’s Halloween), Collin Kelly-Sordelet (The Path) and Liv Tyler (Armageddon, The Lord of the Rings, The Strangers), Wildling tells …

I’m always raving about the amazing female actresses in the horror industry, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have my favorite indie guys as well. One of them is the incredibly talented Billy Brannigan, who after watching Party Night and Stirring, I believe has an amazing career ahead of him. …

What the Fest!? was a pretty awesome festival and I’m super grateful that PopHorror could help cover some of the films. They had an amazing lineup including the widely talked about cult story, The Endless. I had heard some pretty amazing things about The Endless from both critics and friends alike …

I know a lot of people are huge fans of the Insidious series. Although I enjoy them, I will say that I much prefer The Conjuring franchise. Both deliver intense performances with spooky supernatural situations. I wasn’t a huge fan of the third Insidious installment, but that didn’t stop me from watching Insidious: …

From director Dylan Reynolds comes 4/20 Massacre, a slasher romp about a few unlucky gals and their camping trip in the woods. Before watching this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Could it be a campy, tongue-in-cheek gore fest, a straitlaced and serious no-nonsense slasher or a retro throwback to …

“Eye-scorching screen candy.” Mirrormask is a personal favorite film of mine, and with good reason. It’s all of that eye candy that left me begging for more! The film was created by two immensely gifted artists and storytellers, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, both of whom worked on the epic Sandman …

Growing up in the world of performance arts in Germany, Katarina Leigh Waters moved to England to pursue a degree in film and drama. However, this was put on hold when her hobby of wrestling launched into a full-time career when she signed on with WWE. Currently residing in L.A., …