September 10th, 1993. It was my senior year of high school. On that day, I had just turned 18 and had no idea that my life was soon to changed by a television show. It was a Friday night. I should hav...

Charlie Chaplin had his pathos. The melancholy Buster Keaton chased his inventive nature for great sight gags. So where does that leave the third clown of the silent era of film, the beloved Harold Ll...

The Big Short isn’t so much a movie as it is the continuation of a movement designed to wake America the fuck up. Don’t believe me? Go watch Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes or J .C. Chandor’s Margin Call bec...

How well do you know the people around you? I mean, really, really, really know them? Those closest to you, in fact? That’s the question Goodnight Mommy dares to ask its viewers. Trust me when I sugge...

It was only a matter of time. Poe couldn’t be the sole horror author to get ALL the attention from the cinema. And so, when it came to a new round of anthology items to consider, Vincent Price found h...

Bela Lugosi. George Zucco. John Carradine. Why wouldn’t a Horror Hound NOT want to check out director William Beaudine’s Voodoo Man ? Of course, there are plenty of things wrong with this unintentiona...

Ho ho ho! Merry friggin’ Christmas! Have you been naughty or nice this year? Fuhget about Sandy Claws, it is Krampus who really wants to know. Writer/director/producer Michael Dougherty ( Trick 'r Tre...

...because little kids really can be this terrible! The horror/comedy hybrid is a really weird and tricky sub-genre to tackle as a writer. Everything has to hit in such a manner that it satisfies both...

It's a Wonderful Life ’s Gloria Grahame and Len Lesser (ya know, Uncle Leo from Seinfeld ), make a deadly duo in Philip Gilbert’s Blood and Lace . Written and co-produced by Gil Lasky ( The Night God...

…in which Canada makes its very first wide-release horror movie. Wait. What?! It’s true. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that our polite friends up north decided to tingle their spines with the psycho...

Adding to the supernatural splendor of Ghost Story are the matte paintings of Albert Whitlock and Syd Dutton. They add so much life to this frightening tale that it’s rather shocking to discover that...

After the success of Rocky Balboa (both critically and commercially), if you’d have asked me should the character of Rocky return for yet another installment I would have said “no” and quite emphatica...

Bruce Dern attaching two heads to a monkey. Hell, Dern attaching two heads to anything!!! If that image doesn’t get you excited for a schlock film full of nastiness, then I doubt little else will. You...

Time to grab the ugly holiday sweaters and jot on over to the theater this weekend. And if you're really in the spirit of festivities, smoke 'em if you got 'em because the Pineapple Express gang is ma...

Rated R due to the amount of bloodshed and on-screen violence, director Peter Jackson returns one final time (maybe) to the fields of Middle-Earth and delivers The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armie...