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About Chad Collins

Chad Collins is a writer based in Florida. A staff writer for Dread Central, you can find his additional work on SlashFilm, Gayly Dreadful, Council of Zoom, and Rue Morgue. Follow him on Twitter @ChadisCollins

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October 28, 2020
If you know anything about me as a horror fan, it’s that I champion the underdog. While I certainly love…
October 14, 2020
Ghostwatch (1992) took UK television by storm when it first premiered on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. A pseudo-documentary horror…
October 5, 2020
“Hereditary is a domestic drama. The Silence of the Lambs is a psychological thriller. Jurassic Park is an action movie.”…
October 3, 2020
The last thing I remember clearly before I tried to take my own life was a feeling. It was something…
September 21, 2020
#Alive, a scrappy South Korean zombie thriller directed by Cho Il-hyung, is the most life-affirming, ceaselessly reassuring zombie movie to…
September 15, 2020
Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) is my go-to movie to inaugurate both fall and the Halloween season in…
September 8, 2020
Celebrities rise to fame on account of a multitude of factors. Perhaps it’s a serendipitous audition, or a supporting part,…
August 27, 2020
Mike Flanagan understands trauma better than perhaps any filmmaker working in the horror genre today. His entire filmography, from Absentia…
August 7, 2020
Dontez Tillman was only seventeen when he was tried as an adult, later convicted, and sentenced to life in prison…
July 29, 2020
*Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for both A Dark Song (2016) and Amulet (released earlier this month). If…
July 20, 2020
I love slasher films. Among all the subgenres of horror, slasher films are likely my favorite. Like Kristen Bell says…
July 6, 2020
Things are kind of rotten right now. The general state of the, well, world doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, and even…