“Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will never forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman 's Invasion of the Body Snatchers....

There are some records that ask for your attention. Festering Blight takes it. It was well after midnight when I hit play, figuring I'd sample a track or two before calling it a night. Forty-seven min...

Provocative and psychological, Deep Red remains an incredible statement on the beauty of film as an art form. More than fifty years after its release, Dario Argento 's masterpiece hasn't lost an ounce...

From its hellish production to its being eclipsed by Star Wars when originally released, and long before reality television turned impossible roads into entertainment, there was William Friedkin ’s So...

I've been hard on Christopher Nolan for years. Not because I ever questioned his intelligence—few filmmakers working today possess his technical command or his appetite for spectacle—but because I oft...

James Whale. Boris Karloff . The year after Frankenstein was released. Need I say anything more about why, even today, The Old Dark House absolutely slaughters its audience? The tension and the creep...

I first saw Dario Argento's Phenomena when it was released here in the United States as Creepers . That version—heavily edited by nearly 30 minutes (for no other reason than to save Americans from act...

There is nothing predictable about Brandon Sanders , and Lasting Impression follows suit. Long before he found his calling behind a drum kit, Sanders was crashing the boards as a basketball player at...

Synapse Films ' 4K UHD release of Suspiria is a work of pure art. It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule and in every serious horror collection. Years after its original relea...

Because fear doesn't always come from the sky. Science fiction often promises spectacle. The Outer Threat goes the opposite direction, shrinking its scope until the greatest mystery isn't what's happe...

By the time The Night Album reached its final notes, I'd forgotten I was supposed to be reviewing it. My notebook had gone untouched, the wine glass was nearly empty, and somewhere along the way Andre...

Fatal ’s Return From Exile doesn’t waste time dressing itself up as something grander than it is. This is death/thrash with dirt under its nails, built on speed, bite, and the kind of riff-first aggre...

"The Evil Dead is the most ferociously original horror film of the year." — Stephen King, 1981 Opening with the swirl of century-old fog creeping across a lonely Tennessee lake, The Evil Dead announce...

There are horror films that invite you to solve the mystery. Then there are horror films that dare you to survive the style. Tenebrae is unapologetically the latter. Released in 1982...

1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abje...