Keeping the horror genre fresh isn’t an easy task. Every decade or so we see a new technique or story element that manages to change things up and injects the audience with renewed interest. Director Marcus McCollum is taking on that challenge by giving us a bit...
Being a comedian is one of those things that takes a lot of guts. Even great comedians can bomb if the audience isn’t feeling it. What about new comedians with zero experience? What is it like for them? That’s what we’re looking at today. We spoke...
I recently had the displeasure of being stuck in a place where the only thing on TV was Christmas specials. Yes, before Halloween was even here, a certain channel was running back-to-back festive holiday movies. It was like a weird sort of torture because all of these...
Oh, the goth scene. I remember when it boomed in the ’90s. I was in high school and suddenly many of my non-descript friends who tended to lay low were suddenly decked out in all black and sporting eyeliner. Marilyn Manson t-shirts were a common sight, and so...
The 1970s were, in my opinion, the greatest years for horror. The modern conveniences of cell phones and PCs were non-existent, leaving our heroes or victims no easy way out of a situation. Filmmakers were pushing the boundaries of what MPAA would tolerate for an...
Director and documentary filmmaker Scott Petersen sat down to talk to us at length about his newest project Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity. The doc follows a multi-continent journey of two friends in the early 1970s. Having traveled alone throughout a large portion...
Lighthouses can be spooky as all get out. For me, it’s because there’s no way I’ll ever go to the top of one because I have acrophobia. Sure, some may be “haunted,” but I find heights way scarier than any specter. Regardless of my personal hangups on the guardians of...
2020 is a horror show on all its own. So, what better way to alleviate the stress it is causing than by enjoying blood-soaked horror sprinkled with comedy? You can do that as soon as this Friday thanks to Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers, a film made by the comedic...
Celeste M. Cooper (Chicago P.D.) stars alongside Sean Patrick Leonard and Michael B. Woods in ‘Range Runners’. This indie is a unique and exhilarating thriller that combines a woman’s inner struggle with a drug-running plot taking place in a densely wooded area....
Watch List is one of those films that pulls no punches when it comes to realism. For some, that’s a great thing, like when watching a period piece or war drama. However, when the true-to-life aspects of a movie revolve around something like...
