News Retrospectives January 13, 2017 35th Anniversary Retrospective: Friday the 13th Part III (1982) The slasher sub-genre really came into its own in the early 1980s; thanks to the film that spawned this franchise,...
Retrospectives January 12, 2017 Why Castle Freak Is Classic Gothic Drama for Gore Lovers Stuart Gordon’s Castle Freak is not held in high regard as a highlight of its era, nor is it even...
News Retrospectives January 3, 2017 Horror Globetrotting: Mystics in Bali (Indonesia,1981) Welcome to Horror Globetrotting, a weekly column where we travel to different corners of the globe to unearth some of...
News Retrospectives December 30, 2016 Retrospective: New Year’s Evil (1980) After the phenomenal commercial success of 1980’s Friday the 13th, itself an opportunistic cash-in on the success of the 1978...
News Retrospectives December 23, 2016 They’re Still Not Working for Santa: Vincent Guastini and 1989’s Elves “A lot of what I was doing with the effects was based on what Rick Baker did on Gremlins.” -Vincent Guastini...
News Retrospectives December 23, 2016 Why Salem’s Lot Holds Up – And Why That’s a Miracle Growing up, Creepshow and Salem’s Lot were my two favorite Stephen King adaptations. And I was growing up in Maine,...
News Retrospectives December 9, 2016 Christine (1983): A Retrospective Review I absolutely love Christine, and today the film celebrates its 33rd Anniversary! I have fond memories of watching it with...
News Retrospectives December 8, 2016 Retrospective: The Prowler (1981) – 35 Years Later The American slasher sub-genre of horror was at the peak of its popularity in 1981. It was the Golden Age...
News Retrospectives November 8, 2016 Get With IT, Part 1: Catching Up with Pennywise’s First Victim Actress Chelan Simmons “Laurie Anne…don’t scare Mama, now…” Laurie Anne Winterbarger was Pennywise’s first victim in the 1990 ABC miniseries adaptation of Stephen...
Editorials News Retrospectives October 31, 2016 Halloween II (1981) 35 Years Later – A Worthy Companion Piece to the Original or Not? Part 2 of 2: The Companion Piece Halloween II is more than just a follow-up to the original film as it is very much a companion piece....
