Tag Archives: Wes Craven

Voodoo has had an interesting relationship with popular culture to say the least. Often, it’s portrayed as an archaic cult, with depictions of an evil witch doctor performing esoteric rites or transforming people into zombies. Even Baron Semedi, one of ...

You have sex and you die. You smoke weed, you drink, guess what? You’re going to die. That is, by and large, the general takeaway of the Friday the 13th series. Amazingly, it’s a sentiment widely shared by both hardcore ...

Years before Coppola’s, Kurosawa’s, or Scorsese’s, Wes Craven’s name was the first of a film director I committed to memory. By the time I had met and started hanging out with a horror-obsessed friend when I moved to New Jersey ...

In 2013, SNL alum Mike Myers commissioned and directed a documentary about famed music agent-turned-jack of all trades, Shep Gordon. The documentary, Supermensch, follows Shep through his life’s story, supplemented by no shortage of stories by either Shep or the myriad ...

If you were to compile a list of pantheon-level horror directors, with ease Wes Craven would land high on it. Even Craven’s weaker efforts (and there are a few) are genuinely still lively and filled with a spirit that is ...

The artwork has been floating around for a few weeks now and that alone got everyone’s attention but today brings even bigger news – the full specs for the Scream Factory blu-ray of Wes Craven’s Shocker.  The press release spells ...

Been an interesting week for information on the upcoming Blu-ray release of the often overlooked Wes Craven film The Serpent and The Rainbow.  First came the news that the release was going to be pushed back, early 2016 to be ...

MTV is ready to show its hand. They’re finally ready to give us a look at what Scream – The Series is going to look like.  You ready for this? That little look right there debuted during the MTV Movie ...

Film writer Calum Waddell calls Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs “one of the great horror movies of the 1990s.” And yet this 1991 comedy/horror/mystery is about as frightening as  a Chuck Jones cartoon, and its subtext and social commentary (dealing with the class warfare of that era) are a trifle obvious—perhaps even out of place ...

The Third Annual Calgary Horror Con wrapped up on the evening of Sunday, August 4th at Calgary’s prestigious Hotel Blackfoot after two jam-packed days of vendor madness, subversive shows by sultry horror vixens, die-hard fans disguised as their favourite horror ...