Tag Archives: Horror film

Movie Review: John Swab’s Dark ‘Body Brokers’ Puts A Price Tag On Human Life

Alice Englert as Opal in the thriller BODY BROKERS, a Vertical Entertainment release. Photo courtesy of Vertical Entertainment.

Seeing as the film is grounded in a very serious real-life issue, I feel I should give a fair warning to anyone reading this: If you or anyone you love has struggled with drug addiction, Body Brokers will not be an easy watch. Synopsis for Body Brokers Brought to Los Angeles …

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Cinepocalypse 2019: ‘The Only Thing I Love More Than You Is Ranch Dressing’ (2018) Short Film Review

I’m a sucker for long film titles. It might be a cheap trick to get my eyeballs on a movie, but a long title like The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013) or Your Vice Is A Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) just sucks me …

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‘Us,’ Another Divisive Film From Jordan Peele (2019) Movie Review

A couple of years ago, comedian turned filmmaker Jordan Peele took the horror world by storm with his directorial debut, Get Out (read our review here). While some found it to be a masterpiece, others found it to be predictable and derivative. For me, it fell somewhere in the middle (to …

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Interview With ‘Depraved’ Composer Will Bates

I recently had the privilege of chatting to Will Bates, a fantastic composer of many films, TV series and documentaries, including 2014’s I Origins, the recent Charmed reboot, The Magicians TV series and Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine (2015). Will has recently finished composing for the film Depraved, …

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Slenderman (2018) An Honest Review

We live in a universe where legends and myths are everywhere around us. We see them on television, news, and most of all, online. Every once in awhile, one of those legends becomes so popular that Hollywood decides to take a dive and turn it into a film, hoping to …

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A Bad Moon Rising: My Top 5 Werewolf Films

Welcome, dear readers, to the wonderful world of monsters. As avid horror fans, we sit in wait sometimes patiently – sometimes not so patiently – in anticipation of what wonderful monster film will come out next, whether it be remakes or fresh, new adaptions of what once was a classic. …

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PopHorror’s Top 10 Found Footage Horror Films

In a world filled with so many genres of horror, the year 1999 kicked off a brand new subgenre known as “found footage.” Most found footage films involve characters with cameras either on their bodies or being carried by them in some form or another. They are often shaky or …

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‘The Fly 2’ (1989): 30 Years Gestation Period – Retro Review

In 1986, Jeff Goldblum graced our eyeballs with more than his hairy chest in The Fly, and let’s face it, the more Goldblum we can get the better all our lives will be. David Cronenberg (Rabid 1977) gave us this cult hit motion picture. Just three years later in 1989, …

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‘Blade’ Is 20 Years-Old And May Be A Little Long In The Tooth!

Blade (1998)

Before Black Panther and Donald Trump, before sparkly vampires and tax evasion, there were “some mother truckers trying to ice skate uphill” in Blade. It’s been 20 years since Wesley Snipes uttered the words, “It’s open season on all suck- heads,” in the 1998 vampire flick by New Line Cinema. Remember, this …

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