Tag Archives: The Ring

NOTE: This interview was conducted before the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Earlier this summer, another film adaptation of a Stephen King …

This whole month, I’ve been trying to watch horror anime that demonstrates the range of the medium. We’ve had emotional stories, thrillers and impossibly weird non-linear storytelling, and all of it fits into one subgenre of horror or another. One thing we’ve been missing, though, is a mind-peeling, hair-whitening, balls-through-the-wall …

Before there was the horror sensation that was The Ring, there was the classic Japanese horror film Ringu. January 31, 2018 marks the 20 year anniversary of this incredible piece of horror history that opened the door in the United States to many other great Asian films and remakes to …

Horror fans are able to sit through the torture and death of people over and over again. However, when any of that harm is aimed towards an animal, then that’s crossing the line! Whenever an animal is in the picture, the first thing that comes to mind is, “I hope …

In horror, you get what you ask for. In writer/director Carlos Omar de Leon’s horror short Invoke, if you say a certain invocation, evil spirit Eliza Braum will come and rip you to shreds. The main premise of the film is that a young woman unleashes an evil spirit into her …

Man, millennials just can’t catch a break, can they? From demons and ghosts coming out of their wifi to prank phone calls, it’s getting pretty tough to be a technologically savvy twenty-something in a horror movie. In Rings, the struggle doesn’t get any easier. Releasing February 3rd, 2017, fifteen years …

Horror films that have less than an R rating often catch flak for not being “horror” enough. There’s a notion that these films water down their content for various reasons, including trying to appeal to younger viewers. However, the idea that a horror film must reach a certain rating to …