These days, when you think of moneymaking wars between vampires and werewolves onscreen, you’d likely point in the direction of the Twilight series. Still, before Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart enraptured a generation with their brooding take on beasts and bestiality, Kate Beckinsale lived on chicken and cabbage to climb …

Shaky Shivers brings sweetness to the sticky gore of a monster movie with pleasant results. It’s billed as a werewolf movie, but I wouldn’t expect too much lycanthropic action. Even so, there’s plenty of icky goodness to enjoy in its 82-minute runtime. Sung Kang, best known for his role as …

By the late ’80s, horror was dominated by three franchises: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween. The latter two had arguably run their natural course, but they were still on course to be big players for a while yet. Creating an iconic horror villain at this …

The legacy of The Blair Witch Project has been great for others replicating its methods for success. For more Blair Witch stories though? Very mixed results. As a huge fan of the original film, I was eager to watch Joe Berlinger’s (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) Book of Shadows: …

Shane Black and a new Predator movie? That should have been a surefire win. Black’s directorial output isn’t to everyone’s taste, but he had the connection of being part of the original movie Also, have you heard the beautiful dialogue in Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss …

The 11th annual Beyond Fest is around the corner and the lineup has been announced. It’s packed with great genre movies, premieres, and special screenings with a host of notable directors in attendance. The highest-attended genre film festival in the US runs between September 26th to October 10th, 2023. The …

Did we need a sequel to Insidious? It’s a bit of a moot point now with several of them out there, but thinking back to the end of the first film, it was a genuine question worth asking. On the one hand, the bleak sting of its final moments left …

How do you know if you’ve made a suitably sick and twisted riot of a horror movie? How about when Brain Dead and Bad Taste director Peter Jackson makes the crew of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King down tools on three separate occasions so he could …

I have a complicated relationship with the Resident Evil film and television adaptations. The animated ones are okay — and at least feature series regulars. But honestly, I’d rather play those stories than watch them. The live-action adaptations should be up my street, then, as they tend to stray from …

To become an Iconic horror monster, you need the right introduction. The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 are interesting examples because while the plots of those films were largely about a specific case, the side stories about other nasty things out there ended up becoming spin-off and sequel spawning juggernauts. …

The 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s IT always frustrated me as an avid fan of the book. The sneering, snarling nastiness of the source material was stripped away, and entire plot points were ripped up from the roots (understandably in some cases). The casting was a mixed bag, …

The 1990 TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s IT always frustrated me as an avid fan of the book. The sneering, snarling nastiness of the source material was stripped away, and entire plot points were ripped up from the roots (understandably in some cases). The casting was a mixed bag, …