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, …

French horror has brought us classics of all shapes and sizes, but no type has been more pervasive than the New French Extremity movement. This turn-of-the-century revolution in French film has brought the genre some of the most debased yet artful horror ever made. From Alexandre Aja‘s High Tension, Julien …

Next month marks 55 years since George Romero blessed the world with Night of the Living Dead, but this month is the 45th anniversary of its spiritual sequel Dawn of the Dead. Night may have been the one to break ground on the redefinition of the zombie, but Dawn takes …

The great thing about horror movies seemingly created by grabbing a handful of words from the dictionary is that even if the combination of strange bedfellows gets you on the hook, you have a reasonable expectation that it will likely be okay at best, and if it’s terrible? Well, you’ve …

During the first 22 years of Halloween’s existence, it ventured into all sorts of territories and branched off into all manner of timelines. Eventually, someone was going to remake it. Rob Zombie stepped up and the result were reimaginings of the first two movies that still divide opinion to this …

”Comic book movie” used to be a phrase that rolled eyes back en masse. Granted, that’s not too different from now now — just for entirely different reasons. Critical flops and commercial embarrassments… this was the legacy of all cape flicks not called “Batman” or “Superman.” Until, that is, Wesley …

At the end of 1993’s Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, horror fans were given the tease of a lifetime. The promise of a world where two iconic movie monsters could meet up and kill together — or kill each other. Freddy Krueger’s gloved hand dragging Jason Voorhees’ iconic …