Browsing: Horror Movies

The best horror movies of the 21st century made the genre evolve in narrative, tone, and even format. But while we still talk about films like “The Ring” or “Saw,” there’s another kind of horror movie from this century that deserves praise as well — the action horror movie. In the 2000s, we saw a…

The DC Universe has expanded with not just a new film, “Clayface” directed by James Watkins, but a whole new genre: horror. Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), a former poor kid from Gotham City who has grown up into a rising star in the film industry, makes a big mistake when he sleeps with a gangster’s…

What’s the best year in movie history? That’s a loaded question! Does it mean the year with the most good movies? The year with an outsized impact on the industry at large? The year when all the good movies succeeded at the box office and the bad ones flopped? Is it 1990 just because that’s…

Filmmaker Mike Flanagan has been praised as a modern master of horror filmmaking, and he’s earned that reputation by (often loosely) adapting the great horror authors: Shirley Jackson with “The Haunting of Hill House,” Edgar Allan Poe with “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and a close, ongoing creative relationship with Stephen King. Flanagan’s…

After multiple years of waiting and several setbacks, “Crystal Lake” is finally streaming on Peacock. Hailing from A24 and showrunner Brad Caleb Kane (“It: Welcome to Derry”), it serves as a prequel to the “Friday the 13th” movies, shedding light on Pamela Voorhees, the mother of Jason Voorhees, who goes on to become the machete-wielding…

Legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft once wrote that “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Of course, fear is subjective, and some people genuinely freak out at the sight of blood and viscera gushing from helpless victims. But for many,…

Famous horror author Robert Bloch (“Psycho”) called horror and comedy “two sides of the same coin.” They share similar mechanics; you use a setup and then a punchline to get a visceral emotional reaction from your audience, whether that reaction is a scream or a laugh.