There are two camps out there, or so it seems. You either love Rob Zombie's takes on the Halloween franchise, or you despise them. After Halloween Resurrection, the franchise was seemingly at an all-time low. That movie tried to bring Michael into a new generation with a reality show gimmick, and
Vampires and cinema go hand-in-hand. As long as we've had movies, we've basically had vampires on screen. Thanks to Bram Stoker and his novel Dracula, we've seen myriad adaptations, changes, updates, side stories, and more about bloodsuckers. In recent years, vampires have taken more time up on the
There's something about a movie where it all takes place in one confined area. Movies like The Thing, The Hateful Eight, Rope, or 12 Angry Men come to mind and are aided by their settings. Old Man takes place in a cabin in the middle of a dense forest, far away from society. Stephen Lang plays Old
If you live in Los Angeles, you know how hellacious it is to drive across the city from the foothills to past Downtown Los Angeles. The 110 Freeway is more terrifying than any horror movie villain that you can think of. Freddy Krueger? He's got nothing on the guy driving his BMW 25 MPH over the
Chucky season one ended with a bang, and if you don't want anything spoiled from that season, go watch it first. However, this review will contain NO SPOILERS from the premiere episode of Chucky season two. Chucky season two kicks off with a bang and then reigns the series back into a much smaller
What happens when you take the power of Marvel and Disney and they let a filmmaker do a love letter to classic horror? You get Werewolf By Night. The new Disney+ special features plenty of characters that you've never seen on the screen before, and that doesn't matter whatsoever. Like Guardians of
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
