Happy Halloween! What better way to celibrate than by reading a review of a hugely popular, notoriously violent film set on the holiday! Whether you know and love this one, or this review is the closest you'd ever dare get to experiencing it, I hope you'll enjoy the final entry in 2025's 31 Movies in 31 Days (which was really 16 movies, but what are you gonna do?) There is little doubt that the most buzzed about new horror franchise of the past decade has been the Terrifier

Is it truly the season of the witch? Me and Donovan are in agreement on that one. What witch-related songs do you have on your Halloween playlist? Here are the ones on mine*: Season of the Witch - Donovan; Witches' Rave - Jeff Buckley; Witchy Woman - Eagles; I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone; Black Magic Woman - Santana; Burn the Witch - Radiohead; Waking the Witch - Kate Bush; The Wind - PJ Harvey; Rosemary - Sierra Ferrell Despite their healthy representation in

With all of the great new horror coming out, I have to remind myself to check in on some of that sweet, eighties nonsense from time to time. This one checks all the boxes. In between the genre-defining sci-fi horror of Alien and The Thing , Roger Corman produced this far less esteemed foray into the terrors of space. If you are familiar with the Corman ouvre, you know what to expect: Unpredictablity, gratuitousness, and a tiny budget. It isn't difficult to surmise what types

Let’s see what happens when you smash together two of the most formulaic movie genres into the same film. Did I end up with hearts in my eyes, or ‘X’s? All styles of film have their conventions and tropes. They are actually really helpful for storytelling, because they grant creators a form of shorthand so they don’t have to expend as much energy establishing the rules and boundaries of their worlds. They also establish expectations, which are a prerequisite if you want to ge

If you are blessed with a local haunted house attraction in your area, might I suggest a better use of your two hours would be to go and experience the real thing? Ah yes, we've now reached the part of the marathon where a movie defies me to have a strong opinion about it. I can usually avoid this type of thing at the start of the month, because I'll just skip movies like that, but as time ticks away and the jack-o-lantern candle burns low, it becomes harder and harder to tos

It is likely that this 2023 release flew under your radar, but there is a lot of charm to this version of a familiar story set on Halloween night, 1962. Greek mythology has provided us with so many of the story archetypes that we still recycle to this day. One of the most persistent, especially in modern pop culture, is the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. If you're unaware, it involves a tradition in which a set number of young people are sent into a labyrinth to do battle