My job is about understanding someone’s life in reverse.”Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! The problem with a lot of classic horror tropes is that they’ve become too familiar ...

I have written a lot about Mark Herrier’s 1991 slasher Popcorn in this column, for reasons that are relatively obvious to anyone who has seen it. Popcorn is about a group of film students who are ...

Anthony Oberbeck’s directorial debut, Little Doors, is firmly camped out in the absurd suburbia subgenre that Jesse Eisenberg has been quietly cultivating over the last few years, that specific ...

Nicolas Curcio won last year’s inaugural Fantastic Pitches competition, a partnership between Fantastic Fest and indie studio Chroma that hands one aspiring filmmaker $100,000 in production funding ...

The midnight spook shows that had packed houses throughout the 1930s and 40s had already begun to wane by the 1950s, but not everyone was willing to let them go. The final decade of the era of spook ...

Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! From what little I knew about Wake in Fright, I expected another in a long line of 1970s movies about emasculated city folk thrust into a ...

You already know Cinderella. You know the glass slipper, the pumpkin carriage, the wicked stepsisters who exist only to be foils for a golden heroine on her way to a happily ever after. You have been ...

Benson and Moorhead are no strangers to Fantastic Fest. Their film Spring premiered here in 2014, and their work on projects like The Endless, Loki, and the OG Resolution has cemented them as voices ...

“It was only natural that Edison’s idea to combine films and sound would lead to someone deciding to combine films and odors,” writes James L. Limbacher in his 1969 book Four Aspects of the Film, ...

I missed the VHS RPG – which stands for Very Horror Stories – on Kickstarter, but I snapped it up via BackerKit. Of course I did. Here is a VHS-themed tabletop roleplaying game exploring three ...

Dhruv Uday Singh plays May’s non-supportive husband Ted. From the outset, it’s clear their relationship is unhealthy. Ted dismisses May’s career. When she talks to him about a recent book signing, he ...

Tick tock goes the clock as time counts down to the end of the world. For the characters in Dark Season 3, there is only 505 minutes runtime to fix what is wrong. Coincidently, 505 minutes is eight ...