Thirty miles outside of Austin, Texas you can see stars sparkling in the dead of night as isolation creeps in. Turning onto a dusty and rocky old highway road, shit got abruptly real. It’s been well over ten years since I’ve been to a haunt. However, I love Halloween and appreciate a solid scare like most other gore hounds.  So, …

SYNOPSIS: Sadie and McKayla, two death-obsessed teenage girls use their online show about real-life murders to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy and solidify their legacy as modern horror legends. REVIEW: Director: Tyler MacIntyre Writers: Tyler, MacIntyre, Chris Lee Hill, Justin Olson Starring: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Hutcherson Social media has undoubtedly become an omnipresent entity in …

1922 is based on Stephen King’s 131-page story telling of a man’s confession of his wife’s murder. The tale is told from the perspective of Wilfred James, the story’s unreliable narrator who admits to killing his wife, Arlette, in Nebraska. But after he buries her body, he finds himself terrorized by rats and, as his life begins to unravel, he …

As a child of the 80’s, I didn’t grow up with the luxury of dolls being very friendly toys.  Movies such as Child’s Play, Puppet Master, and Dolls overshadowed any enjoyment that I could find while playing American Girl Dolls with my friends.  Instead, I was paranoid and always thought they would come to life and murder me in my …

Michael Myers: A Look Back At The Boogeyman Who Stabbed His Way Into Our Hearts Before the 1960’s, horror films tended to be gothic and romantic in nature. Monsters were mythical creatures who lived in faraway castles and dazzled us with dread within the comfort of our own homes knowing that we were safe from their wrath. It wasn’t until …

Historical events directly impact what filmmakers create and monsters notoriously tend to reflect the perils of the times. Blending fact with fiction, film draws inspiration from folklore, various cultures and universal humanistic themes, to world events in order to create stories that allow audiences to escape reality for fun as well as fear. Common influences in horror films tend to …