All the best retro horror!
I recently had the opportunity to revisit the 1979 thriller “Cardiac Arrest,” and I must say, it was quite a different experience from what I initially expected. I was drawn to this movie by its … Read This Story
I recently had the opportunity to revisit the 1980 horror film “Cannibals in the Streets” (also known as “Cannibal Apocalypse“), and I must say, it’s a fascinating entry in the cannibal subgenre that dominated Italian … Read This Story
“Beyond Evil” (1980) is a supernatural horror film that tries desperately to cash in on the possession and haunted house crazes of the 1970s, but ultimately falls short due to its muddled execution and derivative … Read This Story
“The Boogey Man” (1980), directed by Ulli Lommel, is a fascinating entry in the early 1980s horror genre that blends elements of supernatural terror with slasher film conventions. While it may not reach the heights … Read This Story
Ginger Snaps, a Canadian horror gem from 2000, sinks its teeth deep into the realm of teen horror, emerging as a ferocious exploration of female adolescence that’s anything but another run-of-the-mill scream fest. This film … Read This Story
David Cronenberg’s Crash is not merely a film; it’s a visceral experience, a descent into the darkest recesses of human desire where the boundaries between pleasure and pain, beauty and mutilation, become irrevocably blurred. This … Read This Story
A Campy, Sexually Charged Symphony of Subversive Sexuality Buckle up, horror hounds, because we’re diving into a cinematic experience unlike any other: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This 1975 cult classic isn’t your typical slasher flick … Read This Story
Altered States is a mind-bending cinematic experience that burrows deep into the darkest recesses of human consciousness. Director Ken Russell takes viewers on a primal journey back to the origins of life itself, peeling back … Read This Story
As a child of the 80s weaned on a healthy diet of Fangoria magazines and late-night cable creature features, Alligator hit all the right nostalgic notes for this horror devotee. This 1980 B-movie gem takes … Read This Story
Let’s be honest here – The Alien Dead is a certifiably bad movie. Like, really, really bad. We’re talking acting so wooden you could start a forest fire, special effects that look like they were … Read This Story
Among Wes Craven’s filmography, 1991’s The People Under the Stairs stands out as a seminal slice of social satire cloaked in horror. While the 80s saw Craven perfecting self-aware teen slashers via A Nightmare on … Read This Story
Amongst horror fans, Lifeforce remains one of the most tragically underseen gems of the 1980s horror boom. Directed by genre maverick Tobe Hooper hot on the heels of Poltergeist, this eccentric sci-fi vampire tale failed … Read This Story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The newly released trailer for the Witchboard remake conjures up relentless chills with an early sequence depicting an unwitting seance gone wrong. Hands trembling, makeshift medium Emily grasps the wooden pendulum board as candles flicker … Read This Story
