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 …
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A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff (2016) – Movie Review
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 …
Read More »What the Fest? 2018: AMC’s ‘The Terror’ Is Dark, Disturbing and Desolate
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 …
Read More »Interview With Fritz Böhm: Behind-the-Scenes of ‘Wildling’
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 …
Read More »PopHorror Interviews Billy Brannigan, Star of ‘Party Night’ and ‘Stirring’
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. …
Read More »‘Insidious: The Last Key’ (2018) Blu-Ray Review
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: …
Read More »Through The Looking Glass of Gaiman and McKean’s ‘Mirrormask’ (2005)
“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 …
Read More »Interview With Actress Katarina Leigh Waters: Performance Arts, Pro-Wrestling, Film and Infamy
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., …
Read More »Interview With Director Todd Bartoo: Defying Genre with ‘Killing Joan’
Some of the best films that have stood the test of time and gained a cult following are those that are difficult to classify. Genre blending films such as Ghostbusters (1984), Death Wish (1974), The Crow (1994) and The Shining (1980) may have stronger horror elements than others, but ultimately, …
Read More »WTF Festival Presents ‘Ghost Stories’: A Fresh, Supernatural Anthology
Imagine living your dream career of debunking supernatural hoaxes and, one day, your childhood idol – the one who inspired your work – sends you a package including a personalized recorded message. Would this shock you? What if the individual also happened to be missing and presumed dead? I’m sure …
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