PopHorror Let's Get Scared

A lot can happen out in the desert. It’s vast and open. It’s full of unseen things and uncertainty. It’s also rough and sweltering at times. There can be things out there that surprise you, too. Joshua Erkman’s feature film directorial debut, A Desert, is a lot of those things …

M. Night Shyamalan movies are often among the most divisive and debated in the horror genre. From the beloved The Sixth Sense (read our retro review here) to the underrated The Visit, to the maligned Old, M. Night certainly gets the audience conversing on both sides of the fence. This is also …

Until Dawn, is a film that poses a unique challenge for viewers. It can be experienced from two distinct perspectives. For the people who played, and loved the video game, it may not live up to the expectations, while newcomers to the story might find  it more enjoyable. As someone …

It’s no surprise that Lydia B Kollins fiercely represented the strange and unusual on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17. With Beetlejuice icon Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder, Edward Scissorhands 1990) as her namesake, she wasn’t about to strut down the runway in pageant gowns. Week after week, Lydia brought her own horror-inspired flair …

Cat’s Eye is a 1985 horror anthology directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King, drawing from several of King’s short stories. It stitches together suspense, dark humor, and supernatural weirdness, all loosely connected by a wandering stray cat. Despite common superstitions, this cat isn’t black — and it …

A few years ago, we were gifted a film from the George A. Romero Foundation that found its way onto Shudder. The Amusement Park (our review) is an extremely uncomfortable look at aging in a world that keeps going. The film was meant to be an infomercial on respecting the …

It’s been a while, but I’m back with a list I’ve been planning for a long time: my all time favorite action sequences. A truly memorable sequence is not just about fighting, car chases, or explosions – it must have more. It needs dynamic characters, great pacing, tension, a nail …

Okay, truth time. When I requested Polybius, the debut novel by author Collin Armstrong, I did it based on the synopsis in the email. It wasn’t until I was already reading the book and Googling how to pronounce it that I learned that the story of Polybius is actually a …

John Carpenter is my favorite director, and it’s not particularly close. Classics like The Thing, Halloween, and Escape From New York are firmly entrenched on my Top 10 Films of All Time. In some way, just about every Carpenter film holds a special place in my heart, including the oft …

If you read a lot of my reviews, you will know that British horror isn’t my thing. At all. But I am willing to watch anything once, because I just love the genre that much. I never want to be let down. Unfortunately there are some movies out there that …