January Nelson
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Edward Norton Is Still Talking About Death to Smoochy 23 Years Later, Probably Because It’s the Best Weird Movie Ever Made
Roger Ebert called it so bad that only talented people could have made it. Norton calls it one of the proudest things he’s done. Death to Smoochy opened on March 29, 2002, opposite Panic Room over Easter weekend. It grossed just $8.36 million domestically against a budget of roughly $50 million, earned a C from…
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Netflix’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ Lets You Watch Its 8 Episodes in Any Order, and the Sequence You Pick Changes the Whole Story
Seven episodes, one story, and you pick the sequence. Watch them out of order and you get a mystery. Watch them chronologically and you get a straight con. Whatever order you pick ends with episode 8. The heist at the center of Kaleidoscope is worth $7 billion, and the crew pulling it off falls apart…
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Nicolas Cage Is Back in Full ‘Mandy’ Mode, Battling Cannibals in a Bombed-Out Wasteland in His New Movie ‘Parish.’
Nicolas Cage’s next movie, Parish, hinges on a single rule: never let anyone through the gate. When a woman shows up outside the compound with an infant, and Cage has to choose between keeping her out and keeping himself alive. Parish is set 30 years after a nuclear apocalypse, with Cage playing a survivor who’s…
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Emmy Rossum Is Hunting a Killer Who Targets Men, and ‘Furious’ Won’t Let You Decide How to Feel About That
Hulu’s Furious isn’t particularly subtle about the questions it wants you to sit with—and that seems to be the point. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, the mind behind New Girl and The Dropout, the eight-episode thriller stars Emmy Rossum as FBI agent Alice Black, who becomes consumed by the hunt for a female serial killer targeting…
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Anne Hathaway’s Next Role Is a Real Texas Mother Who Talked Her Way Out of a Serial Killer’s Car After Eight Hours, Then Befriended Him on Death Row
In 1981, a Texas mother named Margy Palm spent eight hours held captive by one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. She talked her way to freedom by praying with him, then kept visiting him in prison until the day he was executed. Stephen Morin was accused of more crimes than Ted…
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Robert Pattinson Got So Scared by a Horror Movie That He Fell Asleep on the Couch Holding Two Kitchen Knives
Robert Pattinson has apparently reached the age where watching a horror movie can turn into a full-scale home-invasion drill. The actor recently recalled an especially bizarre night during a conversation with Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho for GQ. Pattinson said he had to watch a horror movie before meeting its director, and the experience…
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Everything We Know So Far About ‘Shiver’, the Upcoming Summer Survival Film from the Director of ‘Violent Night’
Extreme weather, disaster, and sharks come together for what will surely be a harrowing survival thriller.
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Everything We Know About ‘Evil Dead Burn’
‘Evil Dead Burn’ is currently scheduled for a summer 2026 release.
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Everything We Know About ‘Other Mommy’, the Upcoming Supernatural Horror Movie from Director Rob Savage
A family in turmoil is haunted by a supernatural presence in ‘Other Mommy’.
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3 Scary Movies That Show What It’s Like to Have a Mom Who Is a Narcissist
The moms in these movies go far beyond the normal range of selfishness and play motherhood for scares.
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Top 4 Dark Sci-Fi Movies To Stream On Netflix This May
Welcome to May. May it be filled with sci-fi horror to counteract all the blooming with a little doom. To this end, here are the best dark sci-fi films on Netflix this month. Subservience Subservience offers an eerie twist on AI-gone-wrong, with Megan Fox giving a surprisingly strong performance as an android turned deadly. If…
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Is Sam Levinson’s ‘The Idol’ Actually A Horror Movie?
Sam Levinson’s The Idol is a radical departure from Euphoria. Euphoria deals with common problems. Opiate addiction, sadly, is a universal theme. The psychedelic insanity of youth, naturally, is a universal theme. Turning the subject matter to Hollywood’s seedy underbelly, which is also its top echelon, is an exotic subject that, however real, is deeply…
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19+ Movies About Snuff Films
The idea of snuff films has intrigued and horrified people for decades. Here are the best movies that capitalize on our collective disgust for snuff.
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Dogme95 Films — A Guide to the Movement
A list of Dogme95 films and an explanation of what they are about.
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ (1971) Film: Detailed Analysis
The Meaning of Stanely Kubrick’s a Clockwork Orange | Sex, Ultraviolence, and the Great War Between Free Will and Social Responsibility.
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25+ Serial Killer Documentaries
Here are all the best serial killer documentaries streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Peacock, HBO Max and more.
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Nazi/World War II Horror Movies
Evil medical experiments, occult symbolism, and violent wars are core themes in Nazi/Word War II horror movies.
