“School’s out for summer, school’s out forever!!!” Well, maybe not quite yet. But in a few weeks, students will be fleeing schools, throwing their hands in the air and rejoicing in the freedom that only summer can bring.  As an adult, it’s not as exciting anymore because “adulting” is hard; …

Growing up, kids often referred to each other as having cooties, an imaginary germ or repellent that one would catch if they touched the opposite sex. A silly innocent game of pretend. Or is it?  If you watch 2015’s Cooties, you may rethink your stance on the whole idea. I …

Wolf Creek is the latest horror film franchise getting a TV series treatment; the exemplar of “Ozsploitation” will be premier this Thursday, May 12th as a 6-part series on the Australian streaming service Stan. Like the films Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek 2, director Greg McLean is helming the series, …

In 1988, writers Tom Holland, Don Mancini, and John Lafia brought us a horror film that would change the way we see dolls forever with Child’s Play. After the success of Child’s Play, four sequels and reboot would follow. Like many of the classic slashers, this is a series that …

Everything’s bigger in Texas: Steak dinners, belt buckles, cowboy hats… horror. The Lone Star State produced a some of America’s most deranged serial killers, including: Angel Maturino Reséndiz (The Railroad Killer), Dean Corll (The Candy Man), Kenneth McDuff (The Broomstick Killer), Charles Albright (The Eyeball Killer), David Berkowitz (Son of …

Werewolf movies come along quite often. Some of them serve as wonderfully frightening entries into the subgenre, and others should probably be put down with a silver bullet. The difficult thing about werewolf movies is that, for the most part, they’re different variations of the same formula. What sets the …

Writer/director Jeremy Saulnier’s sophomore film Blue Ruin (2013) was met with critical acclaim and brought him into the spotlight as a talented independent filmmaker. Understandably, there has been a great deal of hype around Saulnier’s third film, Green Room, which debuted during the Directors’ Fortnight portion of the 2015 Cannes Film …

A lot of films are made in Los Angeles; the second most populous city in the US is the epicenter of the Entertainment Industry, home base to the biggest and most prolific production studios. But Los Angeles is also the setting of many films; sure, it helps to set your …

Happy International Cannabis Day! April 20th (4/20) has become an unofficial countercultural holiday wherein people gather in large groups to mass-consume marijuana—at precisely 4:20 PM. One of the largest congregations will meet on San Francisco’s famous “Hippie Hill” in Golden Gate Park near the Haight-Ashbury district; the ensuing plumes of …

In a recent article on iHorror, columnist Carly Knaszak hypothesized that “found footage”, one of the dominate horror subgenres of the 21st Century, may finally have run its course: “Found footage films are a great way to make audiences feel like they are in the actual film. They even leave …