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Remember how Bel Powley sort of took the world by storm with her disarming turn in Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl? Well, look out because she’s returning to the coming-of-age genre that helped put her on the...

Broadly speaking, if a horror franchise makes it to ‘entry number 7’ you’d best steer clear of a product that is still financially viable but that – in most cases – has had any and all creative juice drained out...

The seventeenth annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival is quickly approaching. Running from October 10th through 19th the festival will offer Los Angeles residents a good dose of thrills and chills leading into the Halloween season.    Brian O'Malley's gothic horror...

Right up front, I'll admit that I'm not a fervant fan of Chucky, the bloodthirsty doll that spawned a horror franchise. His original appearance in Child's Play was very startling, though, and it's hard not to admire the devotion that...

Sure, Christmas is just behind us but we’re willing to bet we already know one present horror fans are aching to unwrap this Halloween. Like a sinister version of The Little Engine That Could, our favorite Good Guy doll –...

Out this week from Scream Factory, comes The Exorcist III. It's a brand-new 2K scan and the release I received, The Collector's Edition, provided both the theatrical and director's cuts. What's interesting with the latter is that it contains footage of...

Chucky always creeped the hell out of me as a kid. Even before I'd seen any of the Child's Play movies, the concept alone sent me cowering. The idea that something as innocuous as a toy would come alive and...

It's tough to bring an iconic character back to the screen. Every fan brings their own baggage that's been hardened under the weight of nostalgia. The fans see Freddy, Jason and all those other franchise slashers in very specific ways....

Set to open Fantasia 2013 in Montreal next week, Curse of Chuck resurrects everyone's favorite homicidal puppet. The first trailer has debuted. "It's a doll. What's the worst that can happen?" asks one sure-to-be-hapless victim, as Chucky terrorizes a new...