As a little girl, an older and wiser neighbour – a worldly preteen to my naïveprimary-school child – promised me that at night, once I had fallen asleep, my toys would come to life and have secret, thrilling adventures in ...
Read More »‘The Nun’ Review: A Bad Habit of Standard Scares
Catholics have the best scary movie paraphernalia: crucifixes, rosary beads, holy water, relics, scapulars. Priests walk into films strapped like Rambo. The power of Christ compels them to kick ass and chew guilt, and they’re all outta guilt. As an ...
Read More »Diabolique’s Top 10 Films of 2013 (Part 3)
Continuing with our end of the year wrap-up, here is the second half of all the individual Top 10 Horror Movie lists we received as part of our poll. These personal lists of 2013 favorites were submitted by critics, filmmakers, ...
Read More »Diabolique’s Top 10 Films of 2013 (Part 2)
Continuing with our end of the year wrap-up, here is the first half of all the individual Top 10 Horror Movie lists we received as part of our poll. These personal lists of 2013 favorites were submitted by critics, filmmakers, ...
Read More »Diabolique’s Top 10 Films of 2013 (Part 1)
DIABOLIQUE asked all of our contributors and friends of the magazine, from filmmakers to film critics, to send us a list of their favorite genre films from the year. The films were ranked according to the frequency with which they ...
Read More »James Wan announces horror genre retirement…
As horror fans may know, Australian genre director James Wan burst onto the horror scene with his breakout low budget hit Saw (2004), the franchise-spawning sleeper that follows two people trapped in a dilapidated bathroom, forced to play a sadistic ...
Read More »Talking Terror: Robert Kelly
Horror. To some, the genre is that of cheap thrills, startles and nightmare fodder to allow entertainment to be entertaining without the need to turn on one’s brain. To others, Horror is a conduit that our deepest fears, anxieties and ...
Read More »Talking Terror: Dave Sheridan
Horror. To some, the genre is that of cheap thrills, startles and nightmare fodder to allow entertainment to be entertaining without the need to turn on one’s brain. To others, Horror is a conduit that our deepest fears, anxieties and ...
Read More »Talking Terror: Sam Roberts
Horror. To some, the genre is that of cheap thrills, startles and nightmare fodder to allow entertainment to be entertaining without the need to turn on one’s brain. To others, Horror is a conduit that our deepest fears, anxieties and ...
Read More »Interview: Tom Savini
Perhaps the most anticipated guest presence at the Third Annual Calgary Horror Con was special effects maverick and actor/director Tom Savini. Any horror fan that is well versed in the slasher/splatter movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s would recognize him ...
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