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I’m a huge fan of the films Cinco De Mayo and Streets of Vengeance, so I was super excited when Paul Ragsdale and Angie De Alba, the team behind these awesome films, agreed to do an interview with me. We talked about their love of films, their films, their use of …

John Carpenter’s The Thing is my favorite horror film of all time. It may be my favorite movie, period. I said as much in the retrospective I wrote for The Thing‘s 35th anniversary. It goes without saying that when I heard they were doing an illustrated tribute to the film …

Who’s your horror movie crush? Ever since I had watched Re-Animator when I was a young teenager, I had a huge crush on Barbara Crampton. To this day, I still think she is absolutely stunning and I know I would make an ass out of myself if I ever got …

Music is one of the most frightening aspects that horror films have. Without their terrifying scores, these films wouldn’t have the same effect on audiences. Today, in honor of SCORE: A Film Music Documentary, which will be in theaters on June 16th, PopHorror looks back on some of the most spine-chilling …

Sarah French has been doing independent horror films for many years now. Sometimes going by the name Scarlet Salem, the star of nearly fifty horror films, including PopHorror favorite Monsterland (2016), Beach Massacre at Kill Devil Hills (2017), Shriek of the Sasquatch! (2011), Killer Biker Chicks (2009) or The Half-Life Horror From Hell …

The horror nerd knows the unique pain and pleasure that comes with putting two movies together for a truly killer double feature – the kind of exciting combination that makes the entire viewing experience a new, sublime cinematic journey and makes each movie stand out as exceptional against the other. …

Masters Of Horror was a fantastic anthology horror series. The show brought some of the most talented horror directors together and gave them the artistic freedom to create disturbing and original stories. After much deliberation, here are PopHorror’s Top 5 Masters Of Horror episodes. 5. Pick Me Up Directed by Larry …

In The Mouth of Madness (1994) is a somewhat forgotten John Carpenter (The Thing 1982) movie save for a few memes circulating the internet today. Why is that? It doesn’t get much play time on television and good luck finding it on Netflix. It is a shame, too, because this movie happens …

Awhile back, I reviewed the phenomenal indie horror slasher/comedy Take Back the Knife. Besides some minor technical issues, it was a hell of a debut for writer/director Matt Storc. Recently, I got the chance to sit and talk to Matt about his film, his influences, how to make an independent …

The holidays are over (thankfully), but that doesn’t mean we ever have to stop watching our favorite Christmas slashers and for me, that is All Through The House. The director of the film, Todd Nunes, took time out of his schedule to talk with PopHorror about how he got started in the …