Conflict between Man and the Devil has served as a long-running, albeit waning, theme in popular story telling. “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” are all popular American examples, but the ...

Like many others of my generation, I grew up in front of my television set. For me, it was a form of religion with multiple deities to subscribe to. With that said, however, I did not spend my time watching ...

Written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, the two-part miniseries is set early in Hellboy’s career with the B.P.R.D., the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.  Along with agents Archie Muraro and Susan Xiang, Hellboy travels to Hong Kong at ...

Although the series has been out on DVD and Blu-ray for several years now, Tokyo Ghoul recently started showing on Toonami, Cartoon Network’s long-running anime programming segment. While diehard fans eagerly anticipate the (eventual) release of a third season, the show’s addition ...

Many genres and branches of narrative film – including the Western, the gangster film, film noir, and action/adventure – tend to focus on the male gender. With horror, however, there is often a reversal of this notion with a greater ...

Among names like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava stands as one of the great directors of Italian horror. Although his filmography encompasses other genres, Bava is best known for his work within the horror scene. Black Sunday (1960), Blood ...

Edgar Allen Poe stands as one of the most prominent names regarding classic American horror literature and rightfully so, considering his works The Telltale Heart (1843) and The Raven (1845). Likewise, Washington Irving also stands as a notable name in ...

Trailers are typically a good indicator of what to expect out of a movie’s basic plot and overall tone. However, these glimpses aren’t always 100% spot on when it comes depicting their full-length counterparts. Films like Monsters (2010), Inglourious Basterds ...

At first glance, Dark Was The Night has all the makings of SyFy channel original movie: a sheriff protagonist, a small isolated town, and a monster lurking in the woods. Does this trip into the darkness yield a worthwhile experience ...

Every now and then a film is released (usually within the horror genre) that turns heads with controversial and provocative material. In the early 1970’s, it was Wes Craven and Sean S. Cunningham’s The Last House on the Left (1972). In ...