Author: JP Nunez


  • The Ghost Writer Dredges up Angry Demons From the Past

    Horror and the arts go together like bananas and peanut butter. Those may not sound like good combinations at first, but if you give them a shot, youโ€™ll be pleasantly surprised (and yes, Iโ€™m serious about bananas and peanut butter). The art/horror pairing goes at least as far back as The Phantom of the Opera,…

  • Amelia’s Children Invites You to a Deadly Family Reunion

    Horror is often at its best when it twists something good into an evil caricature of itself. Thatโ€™s why creepy kids are so enduringly popular, and itโ€™s also what drew me to Ameliaโ€™s Children. When I first got wind of this film, I didnโ€™t know much about it. I just knew it centered around a…

  • Five Underseen Giant Monster Movies You Need to Watch

    Giant monster movies are more popular than ever these days. With the record-breaking success of Godzilla Minus One, the top-tier storytelling of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and the awesome trailers for the upcoming Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, kaiju have come roaring back into the zeitgeist. Granted, they may not be as popular as…

  • Stopmotion Shines a Twisted Spotlight on the Dark Side of the Arts

    Iโ€™m a huge fan of stop-motion animation. I grew up watching films like King Kong, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, so the technique holds a very special place in my heart. Iโ€™ll watch just about anything that uses it. Naturally, when I first heard there was a horror movie called…

  • Lovely, Dark, and Deep Isolates You in a National Park

    Iโ€™ve wanted to see Lovely, Dark, and Deep for a while now. I first heard about the film when it debuted at the Fantasia International Film Festival last summer, but I didnโ€™t get a chance to see it. Itโ€™s been near the top of my most-anticipated list ever since. When I found out it was…

  • Cellphone Wants You to Think Twice Before Using Your Phone

    Iโ€™m always on the lookout for cool new ideas in the horror world, so when I first heard about Cellphone, I was intrigued. Sure, the concept of people seeing sinister and potentially supernatural images on a phone isnโ€™t new, but I donโ€™t remember ever watching an entire movie about it. So I was curious to…

  • Lisa Frankenstein Stitches Together a Lackluster Take on a Genre Icon

    Iโ€™m a huge fan of anything Frankenstein-related. Whether itโ€™s the old Universal films, the not-quite-as-old (but still pretty old) Hammer movies, or newer reimaginings like The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Iโ€™m always down to watch a film inspired by Mary Shelleyโ€™s classic novel. So naturally, when I first heard about Lisa Frankenstein, the…

  • The Humanity at the Heart of The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

    I have to be honest. When I first heard there was a movie called The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, I scoffed at it. I thought the title sounded pretty silly, so I didnโ€™t think the film would be any good. Then something unexpected happened. I sat down to watch it, and I was…

  • Ghostwritten Puts a Spectral Spin on a Time-Honored Horror Trope

    If thereโ€™s one horror trope I canโ€™t get enough of, itโ€™s a The Wicker Man-esque story about a person traveling to a remote village and slowly discovering that the locals there harbor a deadly secret. Iโ€™m not entirely sure why, but that concept just fascinates me to no end, so when I first heard about…

  • Five Awesome Werewolf Movies You Might Not Have Seen

    We horror fans have a bit of a love/hate relationship with werewolf movies. On the one hand, werewolves are one of the most recognizable monster species in the genre, and theyโ€™ve been a horror staple ever since the heyday of the Universal monsters. But despite that pedigree, even the most hardcore fanatics would be hard-pressed…