PopHorror Let's Get Scared

Happy New Year! 2025 is underway and while we have a lot to look forward to this year, we wanted to take an opportunity to pick our favorites from 2024. There were so many great ones to choose from. Here are some of our favorite horror films of 2024. How …

A Punk Rock Masterpiece Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is a perfect description of being different. When I was 11, I found punk rock. I was immersed in it, and I still am today, just a lot older with a “dad bod.” The scene gave me the greatest refuge from being …

It’s fair to say that most people will never understand the hard cold or of living off your own kill and possibly starving if you don’t hunt. Evidently, Thordur Palsson’s film The Damned reveals things like that and more.  The film revolves around a small group of people in the …

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll (and the occasional devil’s sacrifice) will abound in the highly-anticipated American Satan II: The Beast Goes On, it was recently announced by director and writer Ash Avildsen. It’s been seven years since the original American Satan hit theaters, chronicling the journey of fictional up-and-coming rock band The …

.Once upon a time, our parents smothered us in their interests, and anything horror-related got the most money. People were gladly shelling out cash for the new scary thing. Our Halloweens were bountiful after walking for two hours and watching Night Of The Living Dead. Then, came Nightmare and Atmosfear, …

Set against the unforgiving backdrop of a 19th-century fishing outpost, The Damned tells the story of Eva (Odessa Young), a widow facing a heart-wrenching moral dilemma. When a shipwreck occurs during a brutal winter, her isolated community — already grappling with dwindling provisions — must decide whether to save the …

Andrew Boodhoo Kinghtlinger’s Lost On A Mountain In Maine, produced by Sylvester Stallone, is a thrill ride without much effort. There are a million survival movies. As kids, we even watched pets find their way home. A good survival movie reaches down into us to say its peace. Based on …

I have said it a few times and I will say it again: I am a fanatic when it comes to short stories and films. When the opportunity presents itself to review a short film, I take it. Jason Burke not only writes for PopHorror, he is an uber talented …

Erle C. Kenton’s House of Frankenstein holds its own in the classic horror underbelly, like a black market for movies we loved. The golden age of horror lasted a lot longer than we imagined. We can pick movies that stick with us under the black-and-white glare. Universal Studios owned horror …

It’s Christmas next week so it’s the perfect time to watch one of my favorite Christmas movies, the New French Extremity film, Inside. Written and directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, Inside is beautiful in its brutality and unrelenting in its violence but still hits all the right points …