The setting: a boy’s orphanage out in the middle of freakin’ nowhere at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The building is extremely isolated (of course), and is a whole day’s walk across dry scrubby desert to the nearest town in case, well, you know, anything were to go wrong. A young boy named …
French director Olivier Assayas and American actress Kristen Stewart are a seemingly unconventional pairing who meld surprisingly well together in their director/actor partnership. Assayas brought out some of Stewart’s best work (and she has done some really good films and roles lately) in her César Award-winning role in Clouds of Sils Maria as the assistant …
Jones aside, director Paul Feig’s simultaneously praised and poo-poo-ed remake of the 1980s classic is a decent, if not overwhelmingly awesome, retelling of a story that’s grown so close to the hearts of many a moviegoer. Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy co-star as, respectively, Erin and Abby, scientists and former friends whose relationship soured years …
I’m a sucker for paranormal stories, with creepy unexplained phenomena that goes bump in the night. I may not be religious, but I’m not one to question the spirit world… there are just too many stories that make me unsure (and I’m not going to be the one to doubt the existence of an angry …
I was thirteen when Ghost came out, and I was swiftly caught up in the romance of the movie. I listened to “Unchained Melody” about five thousand times, and watched every cast interview and every making-of featurette I could find. I didn’t even see the movie until it was released on video, and after all …
As horror goes through its cyclical phases (vampires! witches! plagues!), the theme of zombies keeps returning like the pesky undead that they are. We are used to seeing them rotting and staggering, rotting and running, and definitely always frighteningly bitey. But what if the dead just returned, looking just like they did when you remembered …
To celebrate the release of the horror hit The Conjuring on October 22nd on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD, Warner Bros. offers this handy infographic illustrating the Elements of a Warren Case. Apparently 36% of people would not object to objects levitating in their homes, but would they object to someone playing the clapping game …
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Whispering Corridors begins with a teacher, Mrs. Park, staying after-hours at her girls’ high school to do a little personal research. She pulls old yearbooks off the shelf one by one, flipping through them, looking appropriately horrified at something she’s discovered. A frightening phone call later, she hears a mysterious sound comes from the hallway… …
Director James Wan has made his mark on horror by directing the first Saw movie, which sawed its way to an extremely successful series of torture-porn sequels. More recently, he surprised the critics with the success of his old-school demon-haunting flick Indidious, a low-budget flick that made a great deal of bank. Alas, I was …
You know how sometimes you just want to be alone? Like after your looney ex-boyfriend accuses you of cheating, tries to drown you in the tub, causes you to have a miscarriage and a total mental meltdown, and then you have to hurry up and finish your screenplay because you’ve got a deadline? That’s a …