Andrew Lloyd Webber may have turned The Phantom of the Opera into one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth, but for horror fans, there has only ever been one Phantom. ...

There are few places more naturally suited to a ghost story than an empty theater. The seats facing a darkened stage, the curtains hiding spaces we cannot quite see, dressing rooms filled with the residue of performers who have come and gone—it is a setting that barely needs  ...

There is something immediately appealing about a horror movie that understands Halloween as more than a date on the calendar. Ben Sottak’s Hallowarrior takes its end-of-the-world premise, throws it into the middle of the year’s greatest holiday, and then proceeds to have  ...

Producer David F. Friedman and director Byron Mabe occupy one of those peculiar corners of exploitation cinema where enthusiasm consistently outruns money, good taste, and occasionally basic narrative logic. The Acid Eaters (1968) and ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber may have turned The Phantom of the Opera into one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth, but for horror fans, there has only ever been one Phantom. ...

There are horror movies about killer dolls, and then there is Dolls, a movie that looks at the inherent creepiness of tiny porcelain people staring at you from a shelf and says, correctly, those little fuckers absolutely come alive after midnight. Stuart ...

Child begins with a question that sounds almost too easy: how far would you go to save your dying son? Most parents would answer without hesitation—any distance, any cost, any sacrifice. Writer-director Cyrus Neshvad understands that the  ...

Nearly three decades after The Blair Witch Project helped permanently alter the language of low-budget horror, some of the people responsible for that film return to the found-footage format with The Influencer Project. Blair Witch co-creator Eduardo Sánchez and  ...