Michael Curtiz’s Doctor X demonstrates the perverse strangeness of pre-Code horror.
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The Brothers discuss Erle C. Kenton’s pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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Anders ranks the films of the Final Destination series, one of the first horror franchises of the twenty-first century.
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Eddie Murphy’s The Haunted Mansion is an effective spooky movie for children and families.
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The Witches remains a notable blend of horror and adventure for kids, and the most surprising movie of Nicolas Roeg’s career.
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Even more than Poe’s story, Corman’s version highlights familiar features of the Gothic.
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David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a flattened riff on the tale for a flattened cinematic culture.
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A ranking of each film in the iconic horror series, Halloween, which digs into the series’ strengths and weaknesses. Updated to include Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.
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Examining the 11 films in the Hellraiser franchise and exploring their shared thematic interests and narrative failings. Updated to include the 2022 reboot.
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Anders looks at the five films in the Exorcist franchise and looks at how each one expands on the original.
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Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is more effective as a late-night Gothic thriller than as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story.
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The Brothers discuss, among other things, the merits of “elevated horror,” schlock, gore, silly ideas, and the nature of the horror genre.
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Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a hallucinogenic fever dream made by a mad man.
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Zach Cregger’s trendy new horror movie plays with our expectations of horror in funny, weird, truly bizarre ways.
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The Most Dangerous Game is a layered, atmospheric pre-Code Hollywood horror-adventure.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror drama is a quiet film with a haunting effect that’s as disturbing as anything you’ll find in horror cinema.
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Stuart Gordon’s cult classic Lovecraft adaptation starring Jeffrey Combs is a dark comedy of memorable grotesquery.
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Depending on your affection for and familiarity with exorcism films, Christopher Alender’s The Old Ways may seem admirably novel or hopelessly rote.
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Leo Gabriadze’s found-footage horror movie about cyberbullying reinvents the slasher for the digital age.
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Digging deep into the thematic implications and cultural discourse around Ari Aster’s two works of elevated horror, Hereditary and Midsommar.
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