Out of the Crypt: Horror Revisited: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Near Dark’
Hey, I’m Justin, and this is Out of the Crypt. With Hayden Panettiere returning to the Scream franchise, it’s safe to say horror is having …
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‘The Sadness’ Captures the Grotesque Failures of the Pandemic Through a Zombie Horror
In zombie films since at least Romero’s 1968 The Night of the Living Dead, the ostensible horror is contagion. But the real horror is just …
From the Vault: ‘The Descent’ Is a Claustrophobic Horror Movie That Transcends Its Genre
The Descent can be accurately summed up in just one sentence: A claustrophobe’s absolute worst nightmare. If the tight confines of underground caves weren’t enough …
Out of the Crypt: Horror Revisited: Tobe Hooper’s ‘Eaten Alive’
Hey, I’m Justin, and this is Out of the Crypt. In each column, I’ll highlight a different director while showing some love to the movies …
The Familiar Faces of Fright in Mike Flanagan’s Horror Universe From Rahul Kohli to Kate Siegel
The critical darling Mike Flanagan has held court at Netflix since his breakout adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. A self-described Stephen …
Review: ‘The Cursed’ Is an Intriguing Attempt at Gothic Horror That Unfortunately Takes a Grim Turn
The Cursed is the latest film from British writer-director Sean Ellis, who is best known for his World War II feature Anthropoid. The film stars …
The 10 Best Horror Films of the 1950s
The 1950s in horror was an era of creature features and can-do American communities banding together against dangerous outsiders—as in Howard Hawks’ The Thing From …
Review: ‘The Runner’ Feels Like Friends Exploring Horror Tropes and Creating Joy in a Difficult Time
At least since Michael Jackson changed into a werewolf for MTV viewers, horror movies and music videos have been feeding on each other. Iconic darkwave …
Review: ‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror’
Slithering nameless from some unholy dark, a golden age of horror film documentary has fallen upon us. Released in 2019, Horror Noire: A History of …
Tananarive Due Discusses Her Pioneering Black Horror Reissue ‘The Between’
“It’s a revolution that Jordan Peele has helped spawn with Get Out,” Black horror author and scholar Tananarive Due tells me by phone, and there’s …
The 10 Best Horror Films of the 1960s
Horror is one of our favorite genres here at Wealth of Geeks. From the classic thrills of the best horror movies from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, …