Tag Archives: The Thing

Right up until the end, when the subtitle “Chapter One” gets used for the first time, I thought It (2017) would be a standalone movie. Then the jig was up because blockbusters aren’t like TV shows. They don’t tease sequels ...

In an early episode of scholar Peter Labuza’s podcast The Cinephiliacs, critic/programmer/filmmaker Kent Jones laments what he sees as an unfortunate tendency in film culture: namely, the inability of audiences to “confront a movie head-on.” Jones observes that rather than ...

When Astron-6 collaborators Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski announced their intent to create a serious monster movie outside of the brand, fans were eager to see the duo flex creative muscles in a realm they had yet to conquer. Those ...

Just last week the fine folks at Scream Factory  broke the news that they would be giving fans the definitive edition of John Carpenter’s THE THING with a two-disc Blu-ray Collector’s set and they have wasted no time in getting ...

Other than the schlocky but fun 2002 horror film by Eli Roth, cabin fever is best known as a “type of hysteria brought on by spending too much time indoors.” Along with seasonal depression, cabin fever is a feeling that ...

Diabolique: A lot of your work relates to depicting gruesome horror. Have you always had a fascination with this genre, or did it sort of develop once you became involved in the comic industry? Ben Templesmith: I guess so. I just ...

Most American moviegoers, spoiled by the appeal of Hollywood blockbusters, aren’t always open to independent foreign films. One complaint, from such viewers, centers on the distraction of reading of subtitles. In addition, Horror in general has its own difficulty appealing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Horror fans rejoice! Master of Horror John Carpenter will have three of his classic films released on Blu-ray later this year for the very first time. Firstly, SHOUT! Factory has announced the release dates for two Collector’s Editionsfrom the Carpenter ...