How Ginger Snaps Helped the Horror Genre and Found its Audience

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Ginger Snaps–as I’ve written about here–is one of the best horror movies of the past fifteen years, period. It’s among the great werewolf films of all time. Yes, it was independent and low budget, but like some of the best horror films of our time, that proved to be a help and not a hindrance. […]

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Television Monsters That Could Have Supported Their Own Movie

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Horror and television have always been intertwined. As soon as the TV occupied a place in the home, there were monsters on it. Now, there’s more horror content on the small screen than we’ve ever seen before. Mid-range budgets have all but disappeared from the film world and anything that can’t be produced on a […]

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Review: Altered Perceptions? This Movie Doesn’t

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In Altered Perceptions, three couples have a drug that is repeatedly compared to hallucinogens injected into a gland behind their eyes. The drug’s stated purpose is to give clarity, and according to one of the people administering it, it has the potential to resolve, “geopolitical conflicts around the world.” The couples—two straight, one lesbian—are on […]

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Review: Bad Samaritan Is Brash, Bewildering, And Boring

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The most difficult movies to write about, contrary to popular opinion,  aren’t the ones that make you mad or drive you crazy with boredom. They’re those strange examples that make barely any impact whatsoever. The kind that elicit a shrug, rather than a smile, a shriek (in the case of decent horror movies) instead of […]

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How Alien Raised the Bar for Visuals in Horror

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Throughout most of the 1970’s, horror was very focused on realism. There was a transition period in the previous decade that moved the genre away from the gothic Hammer films, truly cementing horror in the modern era with Night of the Living Dead in 1968. After that came the shocking, real-world horrors of The Last […]

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Non-Found Footage Microbudget Movies That Prove Anyone Can Do It

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Scary as the industry is now, this is the golden age of being able to make a movie. Anyone can do it. The scary part is distribution and profit, both of which are in some ways harder than ever. Still, that shouldn’t deter anyone who really feels like they need to shoot a film from […]

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Why Return to Horror High was Insanely Ahead of Its Time

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Return to Horror High is a low-budget slasher from the late ‘80’s, which was a notoriously bad time for the sub-genre. Not only were the films cheap, they generally had terrible actors and even worse effects. It was very hard to do a slasher during this time, or at least to do it right. The […]

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