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Julian Jarrold’s 2009 film, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974, the first film in the Red Riding Trilogy (you can read our reviews for the next two films here and here) opens in Yorkshire England, a place divided into historical Ridings, as young reporter, Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), attends …

Netflix’s Veronica has certainly attracted a lot of hype and attention. Is it everything it’s cracked up to be? Sometimes expectations can be a killer. I’m sure by now any horror fan with a Netflix subscription has heard about the sensation that is Veronica and undoubtedly been bombarded with the …

Suspense. Scare factor. Squirm factor. Originality. Creep me the FUCK out! The aforementioned are the main things I look for when I’m watching a horror movie, when my brain and body are trying to decide if it’s a candidate for my ‘Favorites’ list. I want a movie that will have me …

Here are my choices for week 6 of my 365 Horror Movie Challenge! To catch up on the previous week’s choices, click here. This week, I’ve decided to add a new rating system. I’m giving points to whether or not I love these certain factors: acting, story, special effects, scares, …

Horror is not just for movies. Sometimes dark themes can be found in poetry and short stories. Below are some great poem and literary readings, often read aloud by the authors themselves. Sure, some may be more unsettling than others, but the contents of any of these readings could send …

We’ve seen it before. Horror franchises run out of ideas, and what happens? Our beloved psychos and monsters get sent into space. It happened with Hellraiser. Part 4, Bloodlines, had Pinhead in space. The fourth Leprechaun film also shot for the Moon. The Prince of Darkness went out of this world in Dracula …

One thing that I personally love about the indie horror community is the support shown by fans, and the appreciation shown by filmmakers. The inclusivity of the community and the age of social media have inspired young horror fans to create films of their own. One such filmmaker is 21-year-old …

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 …