The fall season answer to the summertime picnic movie has arrived once again in Los Angeles. This October, Cinespia, LA’s most rejoiced movie-going experience, has set up a trio of films to match the festivity of the month in the...
There is a dark side to haunted houses. While the traditional scare artist seeks to startle and entertain his guests with the classic trappings of Halloween, the extreme haunter aims to incite genuine fear through increasingly realistic methods. The line...
Horror movies are many things. Creepy? Hopefully. Gory? Often. Anxiety-inducing? Certainly. But there’s one descriptor I have rarely found to be linked to a horrifying film: inspirational. Yes, and even more surprising, is that such an empowering emotion arose from...
The ’80s horror movie slasher never seems to die. From all over the globe, filmmakers continue to pay homage to those masked and bloody murderers who inspired them. Child Eater is an Icelandic horror film that came out in 2016....
If the cold, the damp, the dirt, the bugs – and other assorted wildlife – didn’t keep you away from camping, never forget that you could become the unwitting victims of a pair of gun-toting rednecks. Deliverance taught us this...
Technology corrupts. Worldwide technology corrupts absolutely. Never is this truer than in The Cleansing Hour, a recently released horror short film that’s touring the film festival circuit. In the film, actor Lance (Sam Jaeger) and director Drew (Neil Grayston) have...
Artists know that the muse can strike at any time, sometimes expectedly, often unexpectedly. Sometimes, the bug of inspiration bites everyone in the room at once – such is the case with The Voodoo You Do, an upcoming short film from...
The Blackcoat’s Daughter isn’t your typical horror film. There are many horrifying elements, but not in the way we’re often programmed to expect them. The film excels at defying expectations – both in storyline and characters. “Structurally the script is...
Not all monsters are big, gory and foaming at the mouth. Sometimes the most horrifying villain is lying in wait in a person’s mind. Such is the thematic strategy of Lavender, a psychological horror thriller starring Abbie Cornish, Diego Klattenhoff,...
We all have our own set of fears. For some of us, it’s spiders. For others, it’s clowns. Others of us have more intangible fears like the fear of losing a loved one. The female-directed horror anthology XX uses this...