“You’ve been kidnapped by a crazy-rich toymaker who’s sick in the head and obsessed with dolls!” Sounds like the beginning of a disturbing horror story, doesn’t it? That’s because it is. This is the plot of the first episode of the second season of American Horror Stories titled “Dollhouse,” which …

Almost a decade ago, Bella Ortiz came close to attending medical school. But instead of advancing her education, she took a risk to pursue her lifelong passion for acting. The risk paid off, with Ortiz now battling sinister senior citizens in the brand new horror-comedy flick, American Carnage, released in …

Fantasia Film Festival is a wonderful experience. While many festivals gravitate to a narrower perspective of coverage, Fantasia welcomes just about anything put to film. They are unafraid to portray the weird, the eccentric, and the underseen alongside movies and shorts with mass appeal. This year, they proudly continue that …

1091 Pictures presents American Werewolves, a new documentary that goes beyond the myths and into eyewitness testimonies of werewolf sightings releasing on VOD this summer. This is the latest addition to the Small Town Monsters series of documentaries. We are big fans of Small Town Monsters here at PopHorror and …

Her name is Catt Dahman, and she is the tour de force in the world of horror and true crime. She serves on the board of the Horror Authors Guild and she writes, writes and writes! Her books include the Extinction Island series, Diatlov Nine: Death Below Zero, the Z …

What does an evil substitute teacher, killer bridesmaids, and demonic puppet all have in common? They’re part of the amazingly bizarre new project, A Comedy Of Horrors, Volume 1, from Dan DeLuca (The Wire) and Ken Arnold (House of Cards), along with Matt Servitto (The Sopranos). This latest release comes …

Last summer, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk surprised their fans with the first ever season of American Horror Stories, a seven-episode spinoff series of American Horror Story (AHS). Unlike the ten seasons of AHS, American Horror Stories features a new tale of horror in each episode, with new and reoccurring cast …

We’re big fans of filmmaker Harley Wallen here at PopHorror (read our interview with him here). We’ve covered quite a few of his movies, including Ash And Bone, Tale of Tails, Enigma, Abstruse (our review), Abeyance, Agramon’s Gate (our review), The Initiation, and Eternal Code (our review), and now we’re …

An American Werewolf in London is one of the two greatest werewolf films ever made. (Hint: The other film came out in 1981, too.). There isn’t anything that I could say that hasn’t been said over the last 42 years since the film’s release. It’s more than a classic. It’s …

A young couple is desperate for a child in award winning playwright Hamza Zaman’s directorial debut, The Institute. This microbudget feature utilizes relatable, pervasive unease and fears to endear its main characters to us. Most of the film’s 90ish minute runtime is a slow burn, but a handful of relatively …