How 90s Teen Screamfests Brought Self-Aware Horror Into the Mainstream

How 90s Teen Screamfests Brought Self-Aware Horror Into the Mainstream

Among all the traditions horror broke and reinvented during the 1990s, perhaps none proved more impactful than a surge in self-referential “meta” horror. Films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban … Read This Story

Arrow Video Announces Eclectic September Lineup of Cult Favorites

Horror streaming service Arrow Video has revealed its diverse slate of retro cinema coming to the platform in September. The upcoming monthly lineup showcases Arrow’s signature taste for both cult classics and obscure genre gems. … Read This Story

Revealer (2022) A Shudder Original Streaming Movie Review 2023

Revealing Nothing New – Review of Shudders Revealer

Revealer is the latest micro-budget horror outing from writer/director Luke Boyce, whose previous efforts have focused on elevating exploitation and grindhouse tropes with social commentary. This time, Boyce bites off more than he can chew, … Read This Story

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Gothic (1986) – Russell’s Surreal Portrait of Creative Darkness

I was eager to revisit Ken Russell’s 1986 cult classic Gothic. This surreal and stylized take on the fabled night Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein has all the ingredients to delight fans of phantasmagoric cinema. Russell … Read This Story

Death is Never Retro! ’80s Slasher Terror Resurfaces in Totally Killer

Hello my horror maniacs! Let’s take a blood-soaked stroll down memory lane to the tubular days of big hair, neon clothes and slashers gone wild. The infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer” is back after 35 long … Read This Story

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Baptized in Blood: How 80s Horror Films Defined My Love of the Macabre

As a lifelong horror fanatic born in 1984, the bloody blockbusters of the late 70s and 80s baptized me in terror and left an indelible mark on my darker sensibilities. My earliest memories are huddling … Read This Story

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Captive Scout Taylor-Compton Sinks Her Teeth into Vampirism in Tubi’s

Tubi continues churning out lively original genre films to devour, and their 2021 vampire outing Captive should sufficiently sate B-movie fans’ bloodlust. Helmed by director Gregg Simon, this fast-paced creature feature combines familiar tropes with … Read This Story

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Baring Fangs Anew: How 90s Horror Resurrected the Vampire Genre

Like a drop of blood re-animating lifeless flesh, a startling resurgence of creative vampire films in the 1990s revitalized the subgenre after a decade of diminishing returns. Forward-thinking directors infused new blood into timeless mythology, … Read This Story

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How The Blair Witch Project Brought Found Footage Horror Into the Mainstream

Among all the groundbreaking horror films of the 1990s, perhaps none proved more influential than 1999’s micro-budget phenomenon The Blair Witch Project. The found footage tale of student filmmakers encountering a supernatural force in the … Read This Story

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How Scream Saved Slasher Cinema by Savagely Satirizing Its Tropes

Among all the slick, sarcastic teen screamfests of late 90s horror, Wes Craven’s smash-hit Scream stands apart as the most incisively influential. Released in 1996, Scream playfully skewered and celebrated the slasher genre’s derivative clichés … Read This Story

Horror in Transition: Examining the Genre's Paradigm Shifts in the 1990s

Horror in Transition: Examining the Genre’s Paradigm Shifts in the 1990s

As a lifelong horror devotee, the 1990s hold a special place for me as a transitional decade that radically reshaped genre conventions on the brink of a new millennium. Following the lucrative slasher boom of … Read This Story

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Meta Before Scream: Recalling the Genre-Bending Brilliance of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Among Wes Craven’s filmography, 1994’s New Nightmare remains criminally underappreciated for its ahead-of-its-time meta-horror storytelling. After fatigue set in across six ponderous Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, Craven returned to restore creative passion by deconstructing … Read This Story

Trauma Therapy: Psychosis

Late Screen Icon Tom Sizemore’s Final Film Role Preserved in Trauma Therapy: Psychosis

The career of beloved screen tough guy Tom Sizemore was tragically cut short this year following the actor’s death from a brain aneurysm in February 2023. But Sizemore’s gritty, intense on-screen presence will endure for … Read This Story

Zombie Town Movie

Zombie Town Shambles Toward Release with New PG-13 Rating

Author R.L. Stine has spent decades frightening young readers with his massively popular horror books. Now one of his more recent chilling tales is lurching toward the big screen. Zombie Town, based on Stine’s 2012 … Read This Story

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Insidious Franchise Stretched Thin in Sequel The Red Door

As a devotee of all things horror, I entered my viewing of Insidious: The Red Door with an open mind but alas, found this sequel to deliver diminishing returns. Trading the atmospheric tension of the … Read This Story

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

Fans Invited to Shape New Horror Doc In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

The creative team behind the hugely popular retrospective horror documentary series In Search of Darkness is returning to the genre’s past, this time setting their sights on the crucial but overlooked 1990s epoch. In an … Read This Story

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Screambox Summons RoboDoc, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and More Frights for August

Horror streamers, prepare for a frightful August as Screambox conjures up an enticing new collection of chillers, slashers, and cult classics coming to the service. Leading the pack of Screambox originals is the four-part docuseries … Read This Story

The poster for Where The Devil Roams shows a black-and-white image of a young woman looking over her shoulder with a fearful expression. She has short curly hair and wears a coat. Behind her is a spooky forest at night. The title appears in a red serif font. The poster for Satan Wants You features a close-up of a goat's head against a black background. The goat has curved horns and yellow eyes with red pupils.Below it in an orange font reads the title and tagline "Satan Wants You...to believe the hype."

Sink Your Teeth into Tubi’s Latest Horror Acquisitions – Where The Devil Roams and Satan Wants You

As a lifelong horror fiend, I was over the moon to hear about Tubi’s newest additions to their fright flick lineup – the creepy carnival chiller Where The Devil Roams and the shocking true crime … Read This Story

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Return to the Neon-Soaked Vampire Dens of the 1980s with ‘Vamp’

Vamp: An Exotic, Stylized 80s Horror Gem Lost in the Neon Wonderland of Cult Cinema The 1980s represented a phenomenal boom period for the horror genre that shaped and defined the world of scary movies … Read This Story

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My Bloody Sleepover: A Review of Pillow Party Massacre

Horror hounds, get ready to relive the gory glory days of 80s slashers – Calvin Morie McCarthy’s indie screamfest Pillow Party Massacre aims to be a blood-soaked trip down memory lane. This 2023 release centers … Read This Story