Review| The Wailing (2016)
While the festival darling The Witch, the masterfully marketed 10 Cloverfield Lane, and James Wan’s spooky sequel The Conjuring 2 are rightly—in my view, at least—being touted as prime examples of the influx of solid, well-crafted horror films released in 2016, Na Hong-jin’s enigmatic…
Screaming Weekly October 2016 4.0
Our final weekend of October has us a little sad. We’ve had a great month of recommending some of the best horror movies and TV streaming right now, but it is time for Screaming Weekly to return to its eternal…
Oh! The Horror… | Of ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ (2016)
The problem with being a genre film fan and critic is at some point the surprises stop happening, the cinematography stops being impressive and each genre film becomes an amalgam of prior films seen already. Horror may be the genre…
Reviewing the Classics| Shivers and the Horror of the Flesh
Shivers is a film about sex and parasitic worm-like creatures…and more sex. The film marks, both, the beginning of David Cronenberg’s feature directorial career and of the subgenre of horror called “body horror.” Body horror is driven by its exploration…
Top 5 John Carpenter Movies
A month filled with celebrating the horror genre can only be fittingly celebrated with a look at one of its greatest directors. John Carpenter’s mixture of using empty space, glorious synth scores, and slow-building anticipation set him apart as a…
Screaming Weekly October 2016 3.0
Another weekend in October means we’ve been busy watching horror movies in order to recommend them to you to watch on streaming services this weekend. Check out our contributors three picks and have a happy, horror-filled movie weekend everyone! [divider…
Reviewing the Classics| Knowing Our Neighbors Outside Our Rear Windows
When Alfred Hitchcock and the horror genre are mentioned in the same breath, the conversation is more than likely revolving around Psycho – Hitchcock’s 1960 classic that single-handedly evolved the horror genre into a new kind of monster. If Psycho…
Screaming Weekly October 2016 2.0
Our contributors have taken a peek into the netherworld and brought back three recommendations to make your weekend a little more horrific. Gaze in wonder, but don’t look too long and enjoy a movie or town that might keep you…
Reel World Rewind #009 – Vampyr (1932)
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind, Blaine is joined by Blake Collier to talk about Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932). While Dreyer’s take on the vampire myth, with its refusal to submit to basic rules of continuity editing, is deliberately…
Oh! The Horror… | Of Making It Through The Film
Blake gets very introspective in this weeks edition of “Oh! The Horror…” as he examines 2010’s “A Serbian Film”. What is it that might drive a person to watch something gratuitously cruel and nasty? Blake dives in head first and concludes, among other things, that “Good film persuades; it makes us feel its truth and meaning. It does not force feed it down our throats.”