Love is filling the air as Valentine’s Day quickly approaches, leaving Halloween fanatics longing for their favorite time of year. However, up-and-coming filmmaker Elwood Quincy Walker (Kissed 2019) has just the remedy for this monster mash love sickness with his horror short, Trick. Packing a big punch with its brief …

Earlier this month marked the fifteenth anniversary of one of the most uncompromising additions to modern horror – Eli Roth’s Hostel. In 2005, when Hostel was unleashed at the Toronto International Film Festival, the United States and beyond were facing some diabolical issues. Issues such as terrorism, war, and the …

Here we are at the end of January, a time when large swaths of the population experience seasonal depression. The feasts are long gone, old man winter is biting at your nose, and it’s time to take down those yuletide decorations. Leave them up for one last night, because I’ve …

After many moons of not having the visionary Richard Stanley sit in the Director’s Chair for a feature film, the Universe (and SpectreVision) has heeded to so many of our cries. Stepping back into the limelight and delivering one of his passion projects, Stanley presents a dazzling cinematic rendering of …

There are a lot of horror fans out there that don’t eat meat. While it’s a strange dichotomy that shatters a perceived genre stereotype, the lifestyle happens so frequently in the industry that there has to be something to it at a subconscious level. Real life bloodletting means inflicted suffering, …

Much like the main character, I never knew quite where things stood in A Stranger Among The Living (2020). The film has a way of establishing “rules,” and then pulling the rug out in a way that could easily frustrate the audience, but instead, compels you to keep watching. The …

Hey, music lovers! I’m here to talk about a genre of music that I think is under appreciated, and that’s musical comedy. Sure, there are some big names out there like Weird Al and They Might Be Giants, but there is another band that deserves some appreciation and notice, and …

From Meryam Joobeur, the director of Born in the Maelstrom (2017) comes Brotherhood (2018), a short film on the short list for the 2020 Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short film. The film stars a mainly amateur cast including Mohamed Grayaâ (Eli Lik Lik 2018), Salha Nasraoui (Dementia 2006) …

Knives and Skin (read PopHorror’s review – here) is my favorite film of 2019. When I was offered this interview with writer and director Jennifer Reeder, I had never even heard of it. I took it because it sounded interesting and was written and directed by a woman. Wow. I …

“It’s better to be a fake somebody, than a real nobody!” — Tom Ripley Of all the sociopaths I’ve seen on film, my favorite one has always been Tom Ripley. On Christmas Day 2019, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s …