Our second annual celebration of Hip-Hop Day comes just as a building block of hip-hop culture is globally recognized in the 2024 Paris Olympics! Very cool to see breaking added as an Olympic sport this […]
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The Dork Universe: On recent trends in non-sequitur horror
It is no revelation that the reputation of Horror has vastly improved in the past decade’s time. It wouldn’t even be a stretch to say it is fully redeemed and in a new golden era. […]
The Architect of the Post-Modern Haunted House Story: Richard Matheson and The Legend of Hell House
Another Halloween is upon us and I’m very happy to focus on ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and other supernatural phenomena that can only be found in works of fiction (I do not believe in such phenomena […]
BIMBO BRUTALE: WHY 2000-2009 IS THE GOLDEN AGE OF FEMALE-LED ACTION/HORROR MOVIES
“And it’s stupid when they say, ‘You only use your body. You are an object of men.’ No, I’m the subject. I’m not an object.” – Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer and showgirl, 1988 A hard-bodied […]
BECAUSE THE SOUL IS PROGRESSIVE, IT NEVER QUITE REPEATS ITSELF: ON THE SO-CALLED CLONES OF ‘SCREAM’
What if God fell into the darkness of Hell? Into the prison He had made for His own enemies, for those diametrically opposite of Him… into a realm so far from the beauty of Heaven, […]
If the Abyss Stares Into a Camera, the Camera Stares Back: On Found Footage Horror and Structural Film
An analog video camera is mounted to an oscillating standing fan and left unattended to capture whatever may come across its path. Rotating at its own steady rate between the voluminous kitchen and living room […]
HIP HOP DAY THE GRUMPY WAY
We heard August 11, 2023, is the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop as we know it, so what better time to celebrate some of our favorite hip-hop films? Read on, player. FROM SPENCER SEAMS: HOW HIGH […]
MAY 27, 1970: GODFREY CAMBRIDGE DROPS A NEW BLACK HOLLYWOOD LEGACY
Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge’s star shone very brightly in the 1960s and 1970s; in a short time, he did it all – comedy, theatre, film, civil rights activism, and more. On May 27, 1970, audiences packed […]
EVERYONE WHO LIVES HERE IS LOST: A CHAT WITH JAMES DUVAL ABOUT ‘NOWHERE’
Looking back at the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy has been a real treat for me. While The Doom Generation is the only one of the three films I saw back around the time it was released, […]
CHRISTMAS IS GOING TO THE DOGS
Earlier this week we published a piece examining the celluloid representation of the Christmas Spirit in relation to Charles Dickens’ seminal novella A Christmas Carol. The author noted that dogs often epitomize the Spirit of […]
Mad Tidings of great despair
The Christmas tradition is one of hope and cheer, a time for us all to come together in the spirit of peace and love and forget about our troubles in the name of fellowship and […]
BLOOD AND BUTTERFLY COLLARS: ‘DRACULA’ 1979
Dracula is one of the most popular literary characters ever conceived, a masterful synthesis of history and supernatural fiction, as written by Irish novelist Bram Stoker in the classic Victorian epistolary novel that has chilled […]
Timeless Twin TV Titans of Terror: The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler
This piece is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Sharon Alary (1949-2022), my childhood curator of all things morbid, chilling, and spooky… When I was five years old, I remember my mom taking me […]
EVIL DIES AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENT
Times The Halloween Franchise Should Have Ended, Ranked From Worst To First The Halloween franchise concluded with Halloween Ends, at least that’s what the title would have us believe. Do I believe it’s over forever? […]
HALLOWEEN EVERY DAY (EXCEPT NOV 1 THROUGH SEPT 30)
Luck, wisdom, and desperation all play an important part in forcing the hand of cinema in new directions. A little over a decade ago, a small handful of streaming platforms were pushing for viability in […]