Tag Archives: Contemporary Horror

Films which fall into the “heavy metal horror” subgenre frequently tell tales where metal is the portal to hell (Trick or Treat (1986), Black Roses (1988), Deathgasm (2015)). In The Devil’s Candy (2015), however, writer/director Sean Byrne has subverted this narrative, resulting in ...

A group of people are invited to a deserted island. They’ve never met the owner. One by one, each person turns up dead. Il Demone di Laplace (The Laplace’s Demon, Giordano Giulivi, 2017) isn’t a remake of Agatha Christie’s And ...

In feminist theory, there are two distinct outcomes that stems from the pressures of domesticity. As Susan Fraiman notes in her work Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, literary characters are driven to various extremes by too much house, ...

Graham Skipper is no novice when it comes to horror. In fact, when it comes to modern genre affair, he’s quickly climbing the ranks as one of the most notable and distinguished actors on the scene. From his recent role ...

Kristina Klebe (Tales of Halloween, 2015) sat down with Diabolique to talk about Mike Mendez’s (Big Ass Spider!, 2013) new horror/thriller Don’t Kill It (2016)—now available streaming and on VOD. Klebe plays Evelyn Pierce, an FBI agent with an angelic background, ...

The Chamber (2016) is a taut, often bleak horror-cum-thriller set in the claustrophobic environment of a mini-submersible. Tensions run high both inside and out, with the conflicting politics of an ambiguous mission clashing with the need to survive, all set ...

Since their conception, Scream Factory has prided their brand on high quality reissues of cult genre films. Certainly the titles that have generated the most noise—the works of John Carpenter, including the Halloween boxset; Nightbreed: The Directors Cut; Day of the ...