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Video Essay: On the Importance of Exploding Heads [NSFW]

Benjamin Shearn kicks off his new video essay series, Driftless Significance, by pondering an enduring obsession that started with Scanners.

May 15, 2020

The Uplifting Grace of Horror

Swallow’s writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis charts his journey from perpetually terrified child to maker of psychological horror movies.

The Mythos Meme or, How Great Cthulhu Ate My Brain and Made Me Like It!

Horror director Richard Stanley on the legacy of H. P. Lovecraft, the emergence of a post-truth religion, and his new film, Color Out of Space.

January 24, 2020

Am I The Only One Who Loves … House of Wax?

Anna Roisman goes out on a (Halloween-themed) limb for the much-maligned Paris Hilton horror, which actually has pretty great production values ...

October 31, 2019

Dry Rot: The Hidden Secrets Within Girl on the Third Floor

Producer-turned-director Travis Stevens on how a real haunted house inspired his new horror movie about toxic masculinity.

October 25, 2019

Dear John(s)

The director of Satanic Panic on the directing Johns – Carpenter, Hughes, Cameron Mitchell and Waters – who have influenced her work.

September 6, 2019

Bring on the Next Wave of Female Auteurs

As she develops new feature projects, writer-director Vashti Anderson wonders, are female filmmakers being given the chance to take risks too?

June 28, 2019

Alone in the Wilderness

Director Emma Tammi delves into the theme of isolation at the heart of her new film, The Wind, and her documentary about the 2016 Election.

April 12, 2019

How Fatherhood Changed Me as a Horror Director

Darren Lynn Bousman, whose new film St. Agatha is in theaters now, on how his son Henry altered his perspective on life and art.

February 12, 2019

Underrated/Overlooked: Christopher Radcliff on The Terror

The Strange Ones director Radcliff singles out AMC's period drama-horror, a show that managed to both surprise and inspire him.

February 4, 2019

Reclaiming Horror Movie Monsters as Queer Icons

Pariselli delves into what 2017's #Babawise meme truly means, and suggests the villain of a forgotten horror gem as a prime candidate for reclamation.

April 9, 2018

They Fuck You Up: Parents in Horror Films

Steven Sheil on the new movie Mom & Dad, his own film of the same name, and why horror movies about parents are so effective.

January 29, 2018