In Morrisey's 'Flesh for Frankenstein' and 'Blood for Dracula,' he adopts genre conventions to his style to make period-set horror films haunted by the present.
Full StoryMonth: October 2023
Our Favorite Horror Films… Returns!!
Last year our staff and friends listed their 10 favorite horror films. This year the list is back, bigger, and better than before !
Full StoryCeci N’est Pas Un Jason: Speculations on the Franchise Surrealism of Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees' mask is accidentally iconic. We explore the self-justifying absurdity and evolution of Jason's existence as a franchise star.
Full StoryThe Right Place: Martyrs and Monsters in ‘Suffer Little Children’ (1983)
Produced by an intergenerational drama school, 'Suffer Little Children' bears the transcendent possibilities of the imagination of children.
Full Story‘Mickey Dogface’ (2022): An interview with Zach Fleming
The latest short film from Zach Fleming confronts a group of teenagers with the ghost of a local urban legend on Halloween night
Full StorySplit Picks Japanese Horror: Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’ Vs. ‘Lesson of the Evil’
To close out the series on Japanese Horror, Spit Picks looks at a director known for testing the limits of excessive violence
Full StoryChildren and Death in David Cronenberg’s ‘Camera’ (2000)
Within a six-minute span, Cronenberg turns cinema itself into a virus that attacks us, controls us, and makes us over into something beautiful and diseased.
Full StorySecond Deaths: Metaphors for Tolerance in ‘Mindwarp’ (1992)
'Mindwarp' advocated for the freedom of renderings of violence at a time when censors were drawing lines between real and imaginary horrors.
Full StoryDissolve and Coagulate: Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans’ ‘Safe Haven’ (2013) from ‘V/H/S/2’
The highlight of the V/H/S anthology series, 'Safe Haven' follows a documentary crew being swallowed alive by an inexplicable evil.
Full Story‘Human Lanterns’ (1982): A Malevolent Glow In The Depths Of The Dark
The Shaw Brothers' 'Human Lanterns' is a martial arts film, a revenge film, and a grisly horror film about lanterns made from human flesh.
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