Interview: THE BECOMERS Writer and Director Zach Clark
by Sasha Ravitch, Staff Writer
It was a fascinating experience to learn more of the influences, inspirations, and experiences that begat such a special and touching film: a film for the aliens.
The ALIEN Franchise: A Study on Sci-Fi Gore and Women’s Bodily Trauma
by Heidi Krull, Staff Writer
Sigourney Weaver, who ended up playing Ellen Ripley, was the key to push this franchise to the next level.
Grotesqueries Week: From raining Gollums to big gorilla-wolf MFers: The villains of ATTACK THE BLOCK
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
|There are few films I’ve been an evangelist for more than Attack the Block.
Goth Week: Ruined Houses, Ruined Families
by Tessa Swehla, Associate Editor
Why do we find these old houses in books and film creepy? It’s because they are externalizations of their inhabitants, a physical intrusion of abstract ideas like secrets, trauma, lies, and violence.
Grotesqueries Week: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS mixes comedy with the revolting
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
Frank Oz’s Little Shop of Horrors was an adaptation of the off-Broadway musical, with the luminous Ellen Greene reprising her role of Audrey from the stage.
Grotesqueries Week: Beyond the scope of accepted reality – BANSHEE CHAPTER finds cosmic horror in conspiracy
by Samantha McLaren, Staff Writer
By layering conspiracies behind conspiracies, Erickson’s film gradually reveals an otherworldly plot disguised by human atrocities and deception.
Old Sport chats with APARTMENT 7A writers Christian White and Skylar James
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Our conversation may have been brief, but it provided a vast amount of insight behind the scenes of the production, the inspirations, influences, and why they chose to tell Terry’s story
Grotesqueries Week: Changing Bodies, Changing Climates
by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer
Movies like Crimes of the Future (2022), Annihilation (2018), The Thing (1982), and Akira (1988) don’t rely on monsters or slashers to provoke fear. Instead, they show us the horror of losing control over our own physical selves.
Grotesqueries Week: Playing games with Jigsaw and Billy the Puppet for SAW's 20th
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
What is Saw? Like, really? Well, it’s not actually torture porn, despite what poisonous fruits have since grown in its orchard. Instead, the original Saw is much more of a mystery.
Grotesqueries Week: What does THE STUFF taste like?
by Allie Lembo, Staff Writer
We eat for all kinds of reasons. Culture. Diet. Health. Comfort. In the moment, fork to the lips, there’s just one factor above all else: Taste. The hardest thing to sell.
Grotesqueries Week: The hedonist’s puzzle box - a deep dive into HELLRAISER
by Jill Vranken, Staff Writer
Hellraiser may be a story of an unearthly sect of creatures from Hell, it is most importantly a story about the lengths we would go to for desire and lust, even if it destroys us.
Matt McGinnis flies into Colonial Theatre for a night of DEVIL BAT riffs
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
My love for The Devil Bat runs deep, which was cause for me to be quite aghast when I discovered that movie riffer about town, Matt McGinnis would make this motion picture the subject of his next event.
“OPPORTUNITY ONLY GIVES YOU KNOCKERS ONCE” — the failed but fabulous ELVIRA sitcom
by William Bibbiani, Staff Writer
The Elvira Show was too raunchy for CBS in the 1990s, but it may be one of the funniest failed pilots ever made, and the world should know about it. You should know about it.
Goth Week: SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR shows a macabre meet cute
by Sam Christian, Staff Writer
One thing that brings together the couple in Secret Beyond the Door is that they are both secret goths–or at least have a penchant for the macabre.
Goth Week: The First wives of gothic romance, from REBECCA to CRIMSON PEAK
by Shayna Davis, Staff Writer
Over all these centuries, filmmakers have been able to twist the typical notes of Gothic stories in new, interesting ways, and the “First Wife” has gotten a compelling treatment among them.
Ghouls Week: DEATHDREAM connects the origins of modern horror to Vietnam veterans
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Bob Clark’s Dead of Night–later retitled to the more familiar Deathdream–reinterprets the vampire myth and transposes it to Vietnam War-era America.
Ghouls Week: CEMETERY MAN found love in a hopeless place
by Zakiyyah Madyun, Staff Writer
Michele Soavi’s Cemetery Man (1994) combines the grotesque, the sultry, and the existential with a modern beat that could only have come to fruition in the ‘90s.
Goblins Week: HIRUKO THE GOBLIN is a hidden gem worth digging up
by"Doc" Hunter Bush, Staff Writer
Hiruko the Goblin, on the other hand, more accurately captures the feeling, energy, and humor of Evil Dead while, for the most part, playing in a totally different space.
Ghouls Week: How to know when you’ve been ghouled, hosted by The Crypt Keeper
by J †Johnson, Staff Writer
We want to see what’s really under the surface, and The Crypt Keeper is the embodiment of that: a decomposing ghoul who shows us the dark heart of capitalist realism.
Ghouls Week: Joining them–EVIL DEAD and the staying power of the Necronomicon
by Emily Maesar, Associate Editor, TVJawn
A short film, five feature films, a three season television series, and an off-Broadway musical are among the ways you can encounter Deadites and the Dark Ones after reading from the Necronomicon.