Film

OK. Here’s a quick pop quiz to see if you should subject yourself to the early John Waters effort Mondo Trasho. A monochrome image wobbles up on the screen (your downloaded print is taken from an ancient VHS) as the ...

Lords of Chaos (2018) is the fourth feature from director Jonas Åkerlund, and charts the inception of Norwegian Black Metal in the early 1990s. The movie attempts to shine some light on mysterious progenitor Øystein Aarseth a.k.a. Euronymous, Oslo’s infamous ...

The nature and success of horror fiction lies in its ability to take our most innate fears and turn them into reality. It provides a controlled, safe environment in which we can explore our darkest curiosities and vulnerabilities without ever ...

One of the greatest canvases for horror is façade of the suburban neighborhood. The mask of identical, cookie-cutter homes. Organized in rows, perfect lawns, smiling faces, and sets of roads built like a labyrinth to hold those who cross over ...

“Any fool who thinks bad films are uproarious fun would be cured if locked in a cinema during an all-night Al Adamson retrospective.” Kim Newman, Nightmare Movies I’ve lately been obsessed over American vampire films of the ‘70s, a transitional ...

There is a moment about midway through Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn when Kate Fuller (Juliette Lewis), having been hurtled into an RV along with the rest of her family and forced to ferry two notorious criminals across the ...

The mysterious land of Transylvania, now a part of modern day Romania, has long been a staple for gothic horror. From the pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the expressionist masterpiece of Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony ...

There are several inherent themes in Bram Stoker’s seminal Dracula that flow in and out of various adaptations. Themes of classism, of xenophobia and cultural ignorance and especially sexual repression. Some films highlight a couple of these ideas while ignoring ...

It’s easy to fear what you don’t understand. History is full of examples of people acting irrationally because of superstitions. The strigoi, for example, has been a target of scorn in Romania since the mid-seventeenth century. Part ghoul, part ghost, ...

I disagree vehemently with those of the opinion that the nineties was a bad decade for horror cinema. Sure, it marked somewhat of a decline in overall quality compared to the glory days of the seventies and eighties, but that ...