All the best retro horror!
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 Elm Street, this manic cult classic showcased his evolution into more subversive, politically-charged territory in …
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 to make a major splash upon release but has gone on to earn a devoted …
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 Legend gleefully dismantled genre tropes, commenting knowingly on clichés even as they deployed them for …
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 wastes no time plunging viewers into the libertine world of Lord Byron, surrounding the poet …
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 Maryland woods became a landmark for innovative format, online marketing, and documentary-style scares. As we …
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 and tired tropes even as it expertly weaponized them in classic Craven fashion. The script’s …
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 the 1980s, the 90s saw seismic shifts in studio priorities, cultural tastes, and what mainstream …
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 Freddy Krueger’s cinematic realm through a story set in “the real world.” New Nightmare shattered …
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 as we know them today. Following the groundwork laid by classics in the 1970s like …
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 ominously. The camera cuts between her terrified eyes and the ominous swing of the pendulum, …
A British horror film from 1987, Hellraiser explores the themes of sadomasochism, pain as a form of pleasure, and morality in times of crisis. This film is based on the critically acclaimed novella by Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart. At the time of this retro movie review of Hellraiser, the …
Full Moon is pleased to announce it will be streaming one of the most disturbing films of all time, 1982’s Mansion Of The Living Dead unedited and remastered from the newly discovered 35mm negative! Bashart stars as the cruel Dr. Leonard Chaney (BEING THERE, TV’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF …
The Stuff, a 1985 film by Larry Cohen about a dessert sensation that consumes consumers, tackled America’s marketing and consumerism problems. Today, Denver Film tweeted about its discovery, noting that it had “made a remarkable discovery while looking through the 35mm reel of The Stuff.” In addition to several home …
Recently it was announced that Day of the Dead had been given a green light to create a television series based on the George Romero classic zombie movie from the early 80s. Day of the Dead is a follow up film to Dawn of the Dead 1978. George A. Romero …
