There’s a game that Bruce Campbell likes to play at convention appearances, a sort of a Hollywood Red Light, Green Light. He picks some poor sap in the audience to play a Paramount Pictures executive tasked with deciding whether or not to make a movie with some of Hollywood’s finest …
Read More »Family Friendly Freakouts! – The 10 Best Horror Movies To Watch With Your Family
Since the dawn of man, stories of monsters have been used to keep children in line. Whether it be tales of vampires creeping into our beds, werewolves stalking us in the woods, or even a stranger following us in public, we are taught to always be on guard. Evolving with …
Read More »An Interview with ‘Mainline’ Director, Eric Kleifield
Whenever someone can deliver a well-made horror story in 12 minutes or less, I’m always impressed. It takes a lot of talent and creativity to do, and that’s something that director Eric Kleifeld surely has an abundance of! We had the opportunity to talk with him about his career, his inspiration …
Read More »‘Jaws 2’ (1978) Still Has Bite After 40 Years
There is absolutely no question that Jaws is one of the most impactful films of all time, a cultural and global phenomenon of epic proportions. It holds a deeply special place in my heart, being the very first horror film I ever saw, starting me on this lifelong addiction with …
Read More »Interview With ‘Itsy Bitsy’ Director Micah Gallo
When we first heard about the upcoming indie creature feature Itsy Bitsy, the writers at PopHorror were pretty pumped to see this arachnophobic’s nightmare of a film come to fruition. And who better to chat about the film than the director himself, Micah Gallo? We asked Micah about his filmmaking …
Read More »Happy Birthday, M. Night Shyamalan!
PopHorror would like to wish the visionary M. Night Shyamalan a happy birthday! Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan was born August 6, 1970, in Mahe, Pondicherry, India, and raised in the affluent Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Now known as M. Night Shyamalan, his middle name, Night, was made up in college. The …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie: ‘Jaws’ (1975)
I’ve been a horror freak since I was a young lad. I’ve been intrigued with the genre for many reasons. I love things from gory slasher films (Friday the 13th), to torture porn (Hostel), to the boogeyman pics (Halloween), to zombie films (Dawn of the Dead), to sci-fi horror (Alien) …
Read More »Interview With ‘Scream For Summer’ Writer/Director Cheyenne Gordon
Cheyenne Gordon came to my attention awhile back, having co-written The Wicked One as well as starring in the film as Trevor. I recently found out that he was in the process of directing his first film, Scream For Summer, a film he also wrote and stars in. Recently I got …
Read More »The Many Horrors of ‘Santa Clarita Diet’s’ Drew Barrymore
With the February 3rd release of Netflix’s zombie comedy series Santa Clarita Diet, Drew Barrymore has once again come back to her horror roots. Although she hasn’t done much in the way of terror in the past few years, in Drew’s early career, she was the face of fear on the movie …
Read More »PopHorror Interviews Todd Nunes, Director of All Through The House
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 …
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