Every October I like to write about something spooky. I’ve written about Frankenstein and Dracula, dead girls and dread, mummies and mutant sea creatures. This year, I thought I’d write about werewolves, but it didn’t work out. I considered Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko’s Torso, but Eliot […]
At Playboy, Jake Rossen writes about the story behind the filming and the restoration of Manos: The Hands of Fate. “For a long time no one wanted to see it unless it was accompanied by MST3K’s taunts. Then, in 2011, a collector of film prints uncovered the original […]
Every October (well, since last October) Science Fiction editor Keith Allison turns his telescope toward the cosmic horror of weird fiction’s most illustrious Woodrow Wilson look-alike, HP Lovecraft, and the many ways in which people re-interpreted and mis-interpreted his work, in a series called “Punching Cthulhu in the […]
The Gutter’s own Carol interviews Roxanne Benjamin who is one of the directors for the horror anthology, Southbound (2015), and is a co-producer for The Devil’s Candy and the V/H/S series. “Watching the whole come together as greater than the sum of its parts–these separate visions that we’re […]
At Indiewire, directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz talk about genre, violence and the fear that people aren’t who you think they are. “‘I think if violence is grounded in something which is true to characters and to the world, it’s important to show it in cinema,’ said […]
Here’s the genre-tastic line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness Program at the Toronto International Film Festival–with trailers where available: The Chickening; Green Room; Baskin; Hardcore; The Devil’s Candy; The Girl In The Photographs; The Mind’s Eye; Southbound; SPL 2: A Time For Consequences; Yakuza Apocalypse; and, The Final […]
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