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Just when you thought it was safe to peek put from behind your cushion, Showbox have released a teaser trailer for the Korean horror Salmokji: Whispering Water, that turns still water into something you’ll never quite trust again. According to the blurb; “The story takes place at Salmokji Reservoir, a well-known haunted site in Korea,…
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There is a specific kind of joy found in watching a movie that has absolutely no business existing. Most films are born from a pitch meeting or a corporate mandate, but Stupid Teenagers Must Die! (2006) feels like it was born from a dare issued in a basement after six beers and a marathon of…
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We’ve all done stupid things for love. I knew a guy who once travelled all the way to Australia to meet the girl of his dreams, only for her to dump him at the airport. L’amour makes us do the craziest things. However, perhaps not as crazy as what happens to Bear (Michael Johnston) after…
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What happens when Aaron Eckhart and Sir Ben Kingsley pilot a commercial flight with plenty of cannon fodder… er… I mean, passengers on board? Simple, you have one of the most spectacular crashes of all time – including a cartwheeling plane that just has to be seen to be believed – in Magenta Light Studios…
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Recently I re-read Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie. I hadn’t read it since high school and reading it again as an adult gave me a far deeper understanding of the book. Not just as a profound empathetic statement, not just as a piece of social commentary, but also as a formative text for King as…
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The modern horror landscape is obsessed with being important. We are currently drowning in a sea of elevated genre films where every ghost is a stand-in for intergenerational trauma and every monster is a metaphor for a suppressed social anxiety. It’s all very polite, very academic, and very, very boring. The industry has become a…
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Most horror movies are built on a foundation of “why.” Why did the killer choose this house? Why does the ghost have a grudge? Why won’t the car start? We’ve been conditioned to look for a logic that validates our fear, as if understanding the monster makes the teeth any less sharp. We want our…
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When I first saw the trailer for Sam Raimi’s new film, Send Help, I was immediately excited at the prospect of another gory, fun-filled film like Evil Dead. The trailer was intense, giving the impression of extreme violence, unhinged characters, and thrilling action. What I didn’t know was that the film was about to pull…
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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…