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How many excellent films have been cast out as garbage simply because they’re remakes? How many remakes are excellently crafted stand-alone films that would shatter box office records if their predecessors never existed? This is a consideration I want you to make as we take another look at Gus Van …

Waxwork Records and Rob Zombie have teamed up to bring us the Rob Zombie Presents series of classic horror OSTs. They kicked it off with the classic film White Zombie, , featuring artwork from Graham Humphries. Their first release is really impressive and unique to what you may be used …

Alas! Released on May 13, 1988, the heavy sleeper of the F13 franchise turns 35 this year, and it’s not just the infamous heavy sleeping bag kill that makes Friday the 13th VII: The New Blood so great. We received an unmasked Jason for a full 5 minutes, the makeup …

Before Batman fought Superman, before The Avengers assembled, before Freddy fought Jason, and before Godzilla fought King Kong, another shared universe was born. In 1943, in a successful attempt to revitalize the declining interest in their monsters, Universal Pictures created Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. The film would mark a …

PopHorror had the pleasure of attending Astronomicon 6 on Saturday, March 4, 2023. The event started off great. At the entrance, there were promoters for John Wick 4, handing out free merchandise. I snagged myself a t-shirt, a pin, and a portable dog water dish. This was awesome! There were …

George C. Scott’s hidden ghost story, The Changeling, is a timeless classic that has inspired many filmmakers since its release on March 28, 1980, including the present horror master Guillermo del Toro. Martin Scorsese called The Changeling “one of my favorite horror films of all time.” Director Peter Medak, who …

Seventy-five years ago on July 7, 1944, The Mummy’s Ghost released, the second of three films in which Lon Chaney, Jr. (The Wolf Man 1941, Spiderbaby: The Maddest Story Ever Told 1967 – read our retro review here) portrayed the mummy, Kharis. Directed by Reginald Le Borg (Joe Palooka franchise) he …

On Christmas Eve 1967, Jack Hill’s Spider Baby, The Maddest Story Ever Told (AKA Cannibal Orgy, The Maddest Story Ever Told) introduced us to the delightfully demented Merrye family. Elizabeth, Virginia, and Ralph are the last members of a wealthy, reclusive, and horribly inbred family cursed with a disease that …

Few remakes of horror classics have sparked as much controversy as Rob Zombie’s Halloween. Much of the general public find this film distasteful due to the graphic scenes depicted during Myer’s childhood and throughout the film. Some die-hard horror fanatics of John Carpenter’s original have a disdain for the film …

At my other, lesser known blog, I’ve discussed my favorite things about Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, such as how it’s a love story yet brutal (they’ll peck your eyes out, kid!). It’s also amazing how the movie plays so well with such a minimalist soundtrack. Also, the birds can represent countless …