Author: Neil Gray
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The year 1942 was the the symbolic terminal point for the Classic Monster. Universal’s pantheon—the aristocrats in capes and the tragic hulks in bandages—had become safe. They were creatures of the light, their every move choreographed, their makeup kits fully visible to even the most casual observer. They belonged to the theater of the grand…
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There is a precise moment in the development of a certain kind of mind where the trajectory of one’s aesthetic life is altered forever. For some, it is a high-brow literary awakening; for others, it is the discovery of a specific, crushing guitar riff in a windowless club. But for me—at the volatile, impressionable age…
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There are a few hills, as a writer, I will die on. For example, Ed Wood is the greatest director to ever live because he was so terrible at what he did, Sophie Thatcher can become the next big scream queen if she decides to stick it out in the genre, and The Omen remains…
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We need to stop pretending that The Exorcist is just another classic movie that you check off a list so you can feel culturally literate. I am so tired of the modern elevated horror crowd—the ones who think a movie is only good if it’s a metaphor for hereditary trauma or a deeply moving exploration…
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With the the 1919 composition of The Statement of Randolph Carter, the Cosmic Horror shifted trajectory. We are no longer sailing through the iridescent mists of the Dream-lands or witnessing the geological revenge of silent water-lizards. We are in a swamp. We are in a graveyard. We are standing over a hole in the earth…
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Uwe Boll is a fucking headcase. And I mean that in the most respectful way possible. Here is a man who doesn’t take any shit from anyone, will tear critics a fresh asshole if they so much as look at one of his films the wrong way, and believes that everything he makes is a…
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There is a specific kind of magic that occurs when a man’s ego and his budget have never even been in the same post code. Most directors, when faced with a total lack of funds, try to hide their poverty under the cover of darkness or clever framing. Not Edward D. Wood Jr. Ed Wood…
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Yeah, you read that right. According to Variety, Michael Shannon has been tapped up by the Dowdle Brothers to take on the titular role in a remake called Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders. Which is far to close to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium for my liking. John Erick Dowdle has gone on record stating: “Having…
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Ahead of its imminent release, Paramount Pictures have released a new featurette: Sidney’s Journey to Scream 7. In it, both Neve Campbell and Kevin Williamson look back at Sidney Prescott’s 30-year travel through the Scream Universe – the Screamiverse? – and how she has changed through the seemingly endless run-ins with a multitude of psychopaths…
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Shot in the dying breath of the sixties and released into the hangover of a new decade, The Horror of Frankenstein is a strange movie. An amalgamation of past and present, that you will either love unequivocally or despise with every fibre of your being. The Gothic laboratory, once a place of flickering candles and…