Category Archives: Horror Movie

The Batmanis the highly anticipated foray into the world of Gotham from director Matt Reeves, starring none other than Robert Pattinson as Batman. Picking quite a few of Batmans infamous foes from the Rogues Gallery, the movie is set to put Bruce Wayne face to face with everyone from Catwoman to the Riddler and beyond. (The only major one we seem to be free of is the Joker, which thank you, Matt. Continue reading →

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in "Candyman." Universal Pictures "Candyman," which cost $25 million to make, earned $22 million at the US box office over the weekend. It suggests that the struggling theatrical market can still sustain low-to-mid-budget horror movies. The horror genre has generated 20% of the overall theatrical revenue in North America during the pandemic. Continue reading →

Courtesy Attention horror movie fans: HBO Max has a premium selection of the scariest, spookiest, creepiest movies around. If youre looking for a Halloween movie night to haunt your nightmares, or if youre brushing up on your film history, the streaming service is a one-stop shop. It houses a number of classic originals like Poltergeist and The Shining, as well as modern remakes and sequels, like Doctor Sleep and Annabelle: Creation Continue reading →

Whenever I see a trailer for a new horror movie, it seems like it would be a safe bet to assume it's another in a long line of installments in the Conjuring/Annabelle franchise. For starters, and in the interest of full disclosure, I only ever saw the first of those films, The Conjuring Continue reading →

Nostalgia is not a new phenomenon in the horror world, and it's not going away anytime soon. Continue reading →

Everything about the premise of writer/director Rob Jabbazs feature debut reads like another formulaic zombie or outbreak horror thats become overly familiar in the wake of our real-time pandemic. It quickly becomes apparent that The Sadness refuses to adhere to the average viral horror movie. Jabbaz keeps a death grip on the pulse of the current climate, delivering a rage-filled manifesto that aims to every cinematic taboo possible and tests your gag reflex in the process. Continue reading →

Before you see David Bruckners disconcerting and expertly made new horror film The Night House, in which the Rebecca Hall delivers a tour de force performance as a grieving widow in a haunted house, you should watch Bruckners previous horror movie 2018s The Ritual. Or try to watch it. My wife left the room after the first 30 nerve-rattling minutes of The Ritual, which tells the story of four grieving British friends who go hiking in remote Sweden and encounter something ancient and horrifying in the woods Continue reading →

Over the last six years, acclaimed filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) has been attached to sequels to Aliens and RoboCop, two of modern science-fictions most beloved series. Yet despite considerable online interest for both projectswhich would have ignored later installments and picked up immediately after 1986s Aliens and 1987s RoboCop, respectivelyneither appears likely to get off the ground in the foreseeable future, courtesy of clashing visions and studio priorities. Nonetheless, on the eve of the debut of his new thriller Demonic, the Academy Award-nominated South African writer/director remains upbeat about the possibility of again working in established franchises, provided the opportunity is right. Continue reading →

In Halloween III: Season of the Witch, an apparent murder-suicide in a hospital emergency room leads to an investigation, showing that a crazy toy maker wants to kill as many people as possible during Halloween by using an ancient Celtic ritual, stolen from Stonehenge, and Halloween masks. This is definitely the black sheep of the Halloween family, for one specific reason - no Michael Myers. That led to fan uproar, and for them to bring him back in the fourth film (albeit poorly) Continue reading →

There are all kinds of horror movies out there, with so many subcategories in the horror genre, its a daunting task to even try to list them. There are psychological horror films, Japanese kaiju monster movies, campy 1950s B-horror movies, 1970s horror movies that began using horror for social statements. Continue reading →