Women In Horror Month is an exciting time! I’m truly honored to promote local talent Maria Olsen, a true indie actress who has reached beyond her goals and accomplished her dreams. It was a pleasure to talk to her as my first interview for WIHM. Maria Olsen is South Africa’s own star …
Read More »Spider Baby, The Maddest Story Ever Told – Lon Chaney Jr, Sid Haig, and the Beauty of Schlock and Insanity
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 …
Read More »Interview with Scream Queen Danielle Harris
Some people are just born to create horror and Scream Queen Danielle Harris is one of them. She lives and breathes the genre and has been involved with it since she was a little girl. PopHorror got the amazing opportunity to talk with Danielle about how she got involved in …
Read More »PopHorror Interviews Legendary Genre Actress Dee Wallace
So far in my writing career, I’ve had the opportunity to interview quite a few amazing people in the horror industry, including several legendary icons. However, getting to interview Dee Wallace cuts the cake. Never ever did I imagine I would be talking with such an wonderfully inspirational woman both …
Read More »Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ Turns 10!
Rob Zombie’s Halloween is certainly one of the most controversial horror remakes. It’s completely divided horror fans in the ten years it’s existed. Today, PopHorror celebrates Halloween’s ten year anniversary! https://youtu.be/IeQiSdznHGo (Synopsis provided by IMDb.com): After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers (Tyler Mane), now a grown man and …
Read More »Women In Horror Month: PopHorror Pays Tribute To Danielle Harris
Nowadays, the term “Scream Queen” is usually associated with any woman in any horror film. I believe that term has to be earned. Today, PopHorror pays tribute to our generation’s Scream Queen, Danielle Harris! Since 1987, Danielle Harris has acted in over 80 films and TV shows. Her first movie …
Read More »HALLOWEEN 2: Rob Zombie’s Hated Vision
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 is tied with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch as the most reviled entry amongst fans of the Halloween franchise. While Season of the Witch has undergone a bit of critical revaluation as of late, both it and Zombie’s sequel still reside near the bottom of …
Read More »Comparing Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ to Rob Zombie’s Controversial Reboot
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 …
Read More »Review – THE LORDS OF SALEM (2012)
“Boring crap!” “Idiotic!” “A stupid piece of shit!” “Rob Zombie’s worst film!” “Made no sense!” These are just some of the criticisms lobbed at Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem (of course I’m actually spelling them right and writing them in their grammatically-correct form). But are these criticisms valid? Or …
Read More »Metal and Horror: 7 Rockers Who Have Done Both
In the upcoming documentary THE HISTORY OF METAL AND HORROR, Director Mike Schiff, Producer Robert L. Lucas and Executive Producer Brian Slagel explore the history of heavy metal music, horror films, and how the two genres have merged together over time. The film project, which is still in production, features …
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