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April 18, 2017
Who knew when I stepped onto the lush green grounds of Vancouver’s Stanley Park in the summer of 1990 that…
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March 22, 2017
Release Date: March 22, 1985 Starring: John Shepard, Corey Feldman, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Marco St. John, Dick Wieand, Richard…
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March 21, 2017
With the release of The Belko Experiment upon us, Dread Central takes a look back at a Japanese horror classic…
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March 15, 2017
Written and directed by British maverick filmmaker Alan Parker and adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg, Angel…
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March 8, 2017
Alien: Covenant seeks to reconnect with Alien's core elements, but dismissing Prometheus would be a big mistake...
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February 22, 2017
For a while there, French horror was the big thing. We horror fans were getting genre flicks that were so…
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February 17, 2017
The Silence of the Lambs is one of the most influential and profound films ever. Released in 1991, no one…
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February 16, 2017
The Return of Michael Myers is considered the beginning of the end for the franchise by some, a title that…
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February 15, 2017
The original 1922 Nosferatu is a classic of horror cinema, and film as a whole. So why do another remake?
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February 8, 2017
David Lynch is a true great of horror cinema, with an influence dating back four decades. This is his greatest…
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February 7, 2017
What exactly is an existential horror film? What are the best examples? And why are they so effective? Two of…
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January 23, 2017
Fifteen years ago this month, The Mothman Prophecies hit the theaters. Based on a 1975 book by John A. Keel,…
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January 13, 2017
The slasher sub-genre really came into its own in the early 1980s; thanks to the film that spawned this franchise,…
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January 12, 2017
In this piece we look at what makes Castle Freak stand out as a throwback to moody, gothic drama that's…
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January 3, 2017
Horror Globetrotting is a column which explores the best horror from around the world, starting with Indonesia.