Editorials
Documentary ‘Casting JonBenet’ Brilliantly Captures The Impact Of A Sensationalized Murder
Casting JonBenet, a 2017 documentary recently released on Netflix, follows the casting of local Colorado actors for the roles of the Ramsey family, as well as other major players involved with the tit...
More True Crime Documentaries Should Be Like Tower
Tower is a 2016 documentary about the 1966 Charles Whitman shootings on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, killed both his mother, Margaret E. Whitman, and his wi...
The Joy of Jason: Why the Friday the 13th Game is Unbelievably Fun
Lately, it’s been a bit of a rough time being a Friday the 13th fan. The Blu-ray set is out of print and goes for way too much money online. The new movie was cancelled within weeks of shooting...
The Void Is Your New Favourite Horror Movie
Movies like The Void don’t come around very often. Movies with this singular and strong a vision, untroubled by studio interference, in which the biggest name on the cast-list is Knives Chau fro...
I Love Lucy: A Brief Cinematic History of Dracula’s Most Unsung Character
There are several characters we think of when we think of Dracula. First and foremost, there’s the Count himself. The most famous vampire in the history of literature, film, television and so o...
Breaking Down the New Puppet Designs of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
This past weekend at Texas Frightmare, the team behind the upcoming reboot Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich unveiled the very first look at some of the puppets that will appear in the film. They show...
Why It’s a Mistake to Reboot Scream: The Series (At Least Right Now)
Like many people, I was skeptical of Scream: The Series when it was first announced. I was excited to see the franchise continue, but the notion of a series on MTV had its risks. It could be watered d...
Dream a Little Dream of Me: Farewell, Bates Motel
I never thought Bates Motel was going to work. Back in 2013, I just saw it as one of the first in a lineup of several TV shows based on horror movies. Hannibal came out around the same time and I coul...
Studio Schlock: Why We Needed Low-Budget Studio Horror (And Why it Disappeared)
I want to talk a bit about one of my favorite eras in horror. It’s a time that I think will sound completely alien to the horror climate we live in now, thriving as it may be. There was a lengt...