Category: Horror Analysis
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By late 1967, the Gothic castle was starting to feel a bit too safe. The shadows of Transylvania were familiar, almost comforting; they belonged to the world of velvet, candlelight, and ancient, predictable curses. To truly terrify an audience staring down the barrel of the Space Age, Hammer had to dig deeper—literally. They had to…
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Scream 2 didn’t arrive quietly — it was a Trojan horse already embedded and foreshadowed inside the original film. A perfect and unstoppable narrative convergence, hinted at the moment Matthew Lillard’s character announces: “’Cause let’s face it, baby, these days — you gotta have a sequel!” It wasn’t by chance — nor by accident —…
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The move into the third dimension had been experimented with in cinemas long before Jason picked up that hockey mask. The 1950’s was the golden age of this technology with Andre de Toth’s House of Wax (1953) heralding a wave of, mostly, horror films to the 3D screen. William Castle, long an exponent of the…
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The screen transitions from darkness to a nighttime suburban street. A little girl named Jessie sings ‘Incy Wincy Spider’, one foot in the flooded gutter, the other on the pavement before she is called in by her mother. Moments later, a Hitchcockian violin stab screeches in time to an adult pair of boots splashing violently…
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Over the next thirteen weeks, the Friday the 13th franchise will be ripped apart, dissected and, maybe, put back together again by nanites (depending on what century we are in). This is a series of films that has taken the audience on a hell of a ride from the low-fi beginnings at Crystal Lake before…
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I’m not crazy, okay? Just… don’t forget that as we go on here. I mean, I’m nuts for Jason Movies, but that’s allowable, right? They are good-to-great movies! Well… okay-to-great. All right, they are sucky-to-great. I know, I know. Jason Goes To Hell still exists. More on that one later, though, because it’s about to…
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Sometimes, instead of delivering you from reality, a film forces you deeper into your nightmare, pushing you, along with the characters, beyond the edge. Such was my experience with POSSESSION. I was in the throes of a divorce when I saw the film, and it left its mark on me. With its visceral anguish, hysteria,…
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I think it’s safe to assume that anyone reading this article right now knows that I’m constantly scouring the edges of bargain bins, the corners of the internet, and the never-ending depths of streaming services to introduce readers to films outside of the mainstream that they’ve likely never been introduced to. Halloween is always a…
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It’s just one of those days. Cut my life into pieces. In the end, it doesn’t really matter… or does it? In this ongoing series, we take a look at the decadent, the depraved, and the downright visionary horror films of the late 90s through early 00s that fall under the umbrella of what we’ve…
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It’s just one of those days. Cut my life into pieces. In the end, it doesn’t really matter… or does it? In this ongoing series, we take a look at the decadent, the depraved, and the downright visionary horror films of the late 90’s thru early 00’s that fall under the umbrella of what we’ve…