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It goes without saying that Ti West is one of the most promising genre directors in recent years. In an era of cookie cutter sequels and watered-down reboots, films like The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers are welcome ...

Proxy, the new film by Zack Parker, begins with a horrible act. Esther Woodhouse (Alexia Rasmussen) is violently assaulted as she is leaving a doctor’s appointment. She is very far along in her pregnancy. The baby does not survive. After ...

Director Adam Wingard’s You’re Next broke out onto the horror scene to rave critical reviews, twisting the home invasion genre fundamentally in the story of a well-off family that comes under attack and how one member harbors a secret that ...

Ti West’s newest horror film, The Sacrament, was recently screened at Fantastic Fest and picked up by Magnet Releasing, a branch of Magnolia Pictures, following positive notes on it’s so-far prolific festival run. The literal cult thriller features stars AJ Bowen ...

Looking like it was dragged across a dirt road, the poster for Ti West’s new horror-thriller The Sacrament could be an ad for the 1979 Jonestown Massacre exploitation flick Guyana: Cult of the Damned. The one-sheet poster, which debuted at ...

Following the incredible critical and commercial success of The Strangers, it’s an absolute shock that home invasion films never inhabited the hole within the horror community zeitgeist left by torture porn and eventually filled by found footage. With the scares ...

Whether or not they’re willing to admit it, cinephiles are always inherently hoping that actors, no matter how big or small, end their careers with a bang rather than a whisper. Unfortunately, the landscape of filmmaking rarely lends itself to ...

The loyalty between horror fans and the prolific actors in the horror world is unparalleled by any corresponding genre. Drama fans are likely to turn on an actor if there’s a public scandal or string of bad projects and comedy ...

For fans of the horror genre, the relationship between the audience and the characters on screen usually falls into a bittersweet irony. Horror is often times at its most effective when in the realm of unadulterated voyeurism, and yet so ...

One of the more interesting aspects about the horror genre is the willingness to experiment within the confines of audience expectation. More than drama, comedy and even science fiction, the horror genre has always been more receptive to the more ...