Armed with a healthy dose of much needed restraint, director Mike Flanagan ( Oculus ) and co-writer Jeff Howard collaborate to save Ouija: Origin of Evil from the haunting lows of its predecessor. It’...

When Canadians do horror, good things tend to happen. The Pit , directed by Lew Lehman, is a great example of that statement. Released in 1981, this low budget horror film tells the tale of a weird ki...

There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play . Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown t...

To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie . It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by...

I am not a huge fan of Horror maestro Wes Craven. I tend to check out of the whole adoration club when the discussion turns to his most recent offerings. Yes, Scream included. I just think that, of al...

To the outside eye, The Astro-Zombies is probably not regarded as the greatest of monster flicks. Clocking in at 91-minutes, the b-grade entertainment at the center of this Mad Scientist tale is far t...

Writer, director, and editor Ti West ( The Innkeepers ) pays homage to the westerns of Sergio Leone with his latest film, In a Valley of Violence . The results are expectantly explosive with sudden bu...

Dude. Talk about a blast from the past. Duuuuude. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is already a comedy classic from the latter part of the 1980s. Had it failed to connect with audiences, there would b...

Vinegar Syndrome isn’t through with writer/director Richard Casey just yet. Hot off the heels of their “loverly” HD handling of Horror House on Highway 5 comes his second feature, Hellbent . This punk...

Hands down, It is the best killer clown movie around to ever roll out onto ANY screen. The miniseries itself might be a tad uneven, but nothing beats Tim Curry’s performance as the killer clown haunti...

The Phantasm series completes its offbeat rotation around the sun with the release of Phantasm: RaVager this Friday. It is a movie that is both a fitting goodbye to the late Angus Scrimm and, operatin...

Cruising rather comfortably on its low budget, Hammer Horror director Terence Fisher’s The Earth Dies Screaming has one of the fiercest and most engaging openings to every kick off a science fiction f...

Garden shears. It had to be garden shears. Ho! Ho! Ho! Let the stabbing begin! Written and directed by Todd Nunes, All Through The House is a Christmas-themed slasher that makes for a better trailer t...

There are few things MORE terrifying to me than an exaggerated Richard Nixon mask. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the extended nose or the heavily-lined cheeks, but it just creeps me the fuck out. In fa...

So you’re throwing a party on Halloween night and, while the ghouls and boils are still ringing your doorbell and pulling pranks in the neighborhood, you want something to set the mood. Decorations ar...