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Max Weinstein: Editor-in-Chief The Best and the Worst Genre Films of 2014 Best 1. The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent)  The Babadook has universal resonance, and its tropes, style, and monster are timeless. That writer-director Jennifer Kent’s film is hands down the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the better part of a decade, director Joe Swanberg has become synonymous with independent romantic comedies, essentially carving out a unique subgenre of underground films assigned the moniker “mumblecore” for the extensive use of improvisational dialogue and handheld cinematography. ...

In the past, alternate reality marketing has worked wonders with the found footage concept, whether it was the supposed “dead” crew members of Cannibal Holocaust and The Blair Witch Project or the “news leaks” of Cloverfield and The Devil Inside. ...