Tag Archives: Halloween

When they were making Halloween, nobody really knew if it was going to work. Not John Carpenter, not even producer and franchise godfather Moustapha Akkad. It wasn’t that the film was necessarily bad in their eyes, but they had no ...

The Halloween season is magical for its multitudes of possibilities. It’s hard to come up with a major holiday that gives such free reign to explore fear, surprise, and celebrate the thinning of the veil between the living and the ...

“An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue, An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo! An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ the moon is gray, An’ the lightnin’-bugs in dew is all squenched away,– You ...

The late 1980s were a cornucopia of slasher films, with 1988 and 1989 featuring films that either launched or continued some of the most venerable horror franchises: Hellraiser, Pumpkinhead, Maniac Cop, Child’s Play, Poltergeist, and Return of the Living Dead, ...

The Halloween edition of Sonic Attack continues with the chaser to last week’s shot, Music to Get Your Spook On!: The Album Edition, presenting you with the perfect spooky music video playlist to accompany all things going bump in the night. The ...

90% of everything I love about life, nature and the arts (and please make sure to pronounce that last one really posh, as in the aaartsss) is encapsulated all within the greatest holiday ever. Halloween. Pumpkins, ghouls, masks, the smell ...

As of late, horror anthologies have been all the rage, and it’s no wonder why. This particular format for the genre can be fun and exciting to see how far a filmmaker’s creative juices can flow in short bursts. However, ...

Our beloved genre certainly has its share of Icons and every now and then that Icon spotlight gets shown in a direction that perhaps has gone unnoticed.  Such is the case of Tony Moran – you all know him better ...

We all know that Ash is back for the Starz series Ash Vs. Evil Dead but he also has a some cohorts that are tagging along for the Evil Dead killing fun.  Starz released a new featurette that introduces everyone ...

Halloween-masked child demons demand more than King-sized candy bars in Hellions, a phantasmagoric horror treat that could also be seen as a metaphor for unplanned teenage pregnancy. Directed by Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (2008’s inventively creepy Pontypool) and written by Pascal Trottier ...