Tag: horrormovies

Watching Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People gave me nightmares. It wasn't so much the movie itself as it was the specific image of a banshee that appears at one point. The ghostly, flowing creature terrified me as...

More of a mystery drama than any kind of suspense or horror piece, Cassadaga is an ideal movie to watch at home. It's quiet and comes together slowly, its modest assets eventually asserting themselves as the disparate story elements coalesce...

This announcement kind of speaks for itself, but it is the news horror fans didn't know they were waiting for! Synapse Films, one of the premier cult video distributors in the world, has licensed Dario Argento's masterpiece Suspiria for release...

"What is the supernatural?" Jared Harris asks that question to kick off the first trailer for The Quiet Ones, due out next year from Hammer Films. Hammer enjoyed worldwide success with last year's The Woman in Black, and this trailer...

"I'm a woman, and you're a Catholic. Everything I do is a sin." -- A taste of the in-your-face comedy on display in J.T. Petty's Hellbenders. Based upon the writer-director's own graphic novel, and pitched somewhere between The Evil Dead...

In the tradition of mashing sub-genres together to get something entirely new and interesting, full credit goes to micro-indie avant garde chiller Toad Road for merging the wasted youth drug drama with the urban-legend horror flick. The experience of watching...

Time is a fluid thing in the atmospheric Haunter, but it's set mainly in 1985. It's the day before Lisa's 16th birthday. It has been for a while. Lisa (Abigail Breslin) and her wholesomely plain family -- mother (Michelle Nolden),...

Mandy Lane is the object of every young man's desire at her school. She's a desirable creature, made all the more desirable by her inclination to lead a pure lifestyle and abstain from common teenage vices. You want what you...

Plucking disparate elements from the air and planting them in a slowly-burning field of Southern horror tropes, Cassadaga eventually reveals itself to be more of a mystery drama than any kind of suspense or horror piece. And what at first...

Canadian porn star Sunny Leone has found a welcoming home in Bollywood over the last couple of years. Her first project was the disappointingly tame Jism 2, a film that disappointed even my moderate expectations. It showed only that she looks...

Less nerve-jangling than nerve-nudging, Insidious: Chapter 2 nontheless tweaks horror conventions with verve and surety of craft, taking the sequel into the realm of confrontational thrillers with a supernatural twist. It is a very bizarre realm, indeed. James Wan has...