Following in the recent trend of The Babadook (2014) and Goodbye, Mommy (2015), another single mother with questionable parenting skills finds herself trapped in an ostensibly haunted house with her two children in The Diabolical (2015).  That interesting and ambiguous ...

During the turning point of The Blood of Love (2015), the mysterious Mr. Ashling tells Kate—the widowed countless-times-over protagonist—that “It’s not uncommon to mistake quantity, for quality.”  It seems almost as if director Jeff Meyers subtly attempts to nudge the ...

Introduction It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) stands up as a quality science-fiction classic that influenced the future of the genre, even though audiences seldom mention it in the same breath as more popular classics such as Forbidden Planet (1956) or The ...

This article probes the somewhat ambiguous line often drawn between science fiction and horror films in order to illuminate the ease with which some films shift from one category to another. Subsequently it argues that three films: The Thing from ...