A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spir...
I've always had a soft spot for psychological horror, but it's also the easiest subgenre to screw up. Anybody can throw weird images on the screen and call it "surreal." Making you feel like you're sl...
George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead has been released on home video more times than the zombies have stumbled through Monroeville Mall, but not every edition earns a permanent place on the shelf. Orig...
Life finds a way.” The first time the T. rex steps out of its paddock, the world stops. Rain hammers the glass; the goat leg drops onto the sunroof, and then those pupils dilate, those nostrils flare,...
I swore to myself I would never watch this movie again. It affected me. There was total silence in the car on the way home. We were both just so . . . numb. That's how I remembered my first experience...
"They'll eat anything. They'll eat anybody." There are movie rip-offs...and then there's Piranha . Released on August 3, 1978, barely a month after Jaws 2 hit theaters, Joe Dante's Piranha looked like...
“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...
