★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A survival tale that feels so honest and voyeuristic that it becomes hard to watch. A low-budget hall of fame film.
The next big horror film festival is coming to Fort Lauderdale next month!
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
No not THAT Frozen! A surprisingly solid under-the-radar survival horror piece, that has plausibility plastered all over it.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Intensity: 🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
Don Quixote meets Jack and the Beanstalk meets Calvin and Hobbes in this poignant gateway dark fantasy film.
SPOILER ALERT! The following post will disclose a number of critical MOMENTS of the first six months of this epic year so far in the genre.
★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
It's everything I hate about dead pretty teenager movies... and yet... there's still a kernel of something watchable about this annoying but twisty film.
Get your Geiger counter out, and ready that rad suit, as The Scariest Things talks about the Matinee era of Horror, the second great era for genre films!
★ out of ★★★★★ (but still kind of awesome)
A foam latex tiki tree monstrosity does its best Gumby impression in this awesomely bad classic from the Matinee Era of Horror.
It's a few weeks late, but the Scariest Things crew were inspired by Father's Day to examine the best dads in horror. As a bonus, you get to hear Eric do some terrible impressions!
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A sly 80's slasher homage, where tropes collide: Punks on the Run + The Cabin in the Woods.
It gives a whole new meaning to bloodsucker! Laugh out loud funny, and in really questionable taste...
The low-budget video nasty is getting an upgrade! Barbara Crampton announced, and Cinestate has confirmed, that they are in production...
Producer Amanda Presmyk of Cinestate called in to chat with The Scariest Things about their movie Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and to discuss the studio and its new brand FANGORIA!
We have a very special guest! A very twisted and brilliant one at that. Emerging director Marc Martinez Jordán is here to break down his bloody debut shocker: FRAMED.
★★★★ of ★★★★★
It's all fun and games until when someone dies.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
A toe-curling and stomach-churning parable about the addictive power of viral media. Soon to be showing at the Buried Alive Film Festival in Atlanta, on November 17!
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Stark, Smart, and Moody clockwork horror that contemplates fate and predictive behavior.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Gonzo, Gory, a little meta, a little offensive, and a big step up for the venerable franchise.
★★ of ★★★★★
A found footage anthology, complete with a hand-written note of spookiness!
Do you like weddings, psychology, inheritances and people talking in Trans-Atlantic accents? Oh... and do you like classic monsters? Then listen in to Episode XXV where we discuss the rise and fall of the first age of Horror movies!
The movie that could not be re-made... has been re-made. Good pedigree. But a very daunting task for Luca Guadagnino and cast.
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
A Brooding and beautiful, if fairly straightforward modern Irish horror folktale.
*** out of *****
You want to see an off-the-chain Nicolas Cage? Here you go! Go crazy, Nic.
★★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Directed by Jennifer Kent.
A keystone film in the new golden age of horror films. A story on how a mother and her troubled son struggle with grief, which spins into fear and then madness.
Mike and Eric got a chance to sit down with Brian and Gwen Callahan, the organizers of the upcoming Portland Horror Film Festival. Madness and mayhem ensued! Or, at least some great horror movie conversations.
★★ 1/2 out of ★★★★★
Directed by Jonathon Milott and Cary Murnion
The zombie-pocalypse begins in an elementary school playground, and the kids turn on the teachers. Bloody (occasionally) and goofy (sometimes) mayhem (almost) ensues. Shrugs all around.
5.24.18 UPDATE! Jay Ryan will be playing Ben Hanscom. Ever heard of Jay? Me neither! But he looks like a bad hombre.
The adult cast for the second It movie is rounding out. Andy Bean has joint to play Stanley Uris, and James Ransone has been added to play Eddie Kaspbrak.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman
A tense and twisty semi-anthology of paranormal de-bunking whose fateful ending makes you rewind the the events of the film when you're walking out of the theater in this clever British offering.