Movies
The movie section aims to catalog, editorialize and analyze every scary movie, fantasy and sci-fi film ever made. Any movie that frightens, thrills the senses from action/violence, contains mysterious creatures, folklore, and anything generally creepy from thrillers to psychological torment. Readers will find this category helpful for research and for figuring out what to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon or to buy on Blu-ray.
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Javier Bardem Says It Was His Idea to Make His Bond Villain Gay in ‘Skyfall’
Does adding in lust make a Bond villain creepier? Javier Bardem wanted Raoul Silva’s interest in James Bond to get personal. During a script…
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Devon Sawa Used to Resent Being Asked About Casper, but Now He Says the Ghost Movie Is ‘What Got Me Here’
Devon Sawa’s “Can I keep you?” from 1995’s Casper turned into a line he can’t outrun, and for years he resented that. “There was…
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Joel Had a Much Bigger Role in Scream 2’s Original Script, Until the Script Leaked Online and Got Rewritten
In the original Scream 2 script, Joel (Duane Martin) had a much bigger role: he was dating Hallie McDaniel, Sidney’s best friend, and sat…
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The ‘Other Mommy’ Book Has a Much Darker Ending
“Other Mommy” is a horror movie starring Jessica Chastain as Ursula, Jay Duplass as her husband, Russell, and Arabella Olivia Clark as their daughter,…
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Danny Boyle Says the Third 28 Years Later Film Is on the Back Burner, with an Antarctica Movie Coming First
Danny Boyle says the third 28 Years Later film is on the “back burner,” and an Antarctica-set movie is coming first. Boyle made the…
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Kit Connor Plays Robert Chambers, the 1986 ‘Preppy Killer,’ Opposite Diana Silvers as Jennifer Levin in PRƎPPY
Kit Connor and Diana Silvers are filming PRƎPPY, a true-crime drama about the 1986 killing of Jennifer Levin in Central Park, with Connor playing…
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A Cursed Dollhouse Mirrors a Young Girl’s Reality in ‘Jinx’, Now Available on VOD
Mia is 12 years old, and she’s been mute ever since a tragic accident. When her family moves into a new house, she finds…
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A Man Gets His Head Trapped in a Toilet in the Horror Comedy ‘Flush’, Now on VOD
Luc is an addict who wants to get his family back together. But a bad decision leads to a worse outcome when a beating…
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‘U.V.F: Underground Video Films’ Is a Horror Anthology with a Wide Variety of Different Subjects, and It’s Now Streaming on FoundTV
U.V.F: Underground Video Films is an exercise in the extreme-horror side of found footage anthology films. There’s a mysterious host who presents the segments…
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The V/H/S Franchise Is Back with a Music-Themed Horror Anthology in ‘V/H/S/MIXTAPE’, Now Streaming on Shudder
V/H/S/Mixtape is the ninth main entry in the franchise. This time the themes that connect the story segments are music and sound as sources…
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Two Teens Try to Save Their Town from the Return of a Curse in ‘R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2’, Now Streaming on Tubi
While Sam is still dealing with the fallout of the events of the previous year (seen in the previous movie), he’s searching for the…
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An Entity Takes the Form of a Young Girl’s Mother and Repeatedly Tries to Enter Her Heart in ‘Other Mommy’, Now Playing in Theaters
Jessica Chastain stars in Other Mommy in dual roles. First, she plays Ursula, the daughter of young Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) who is struggling…
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In Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, Margaret White Is Wrong About Almost Everything, Except the School’s Active-Shooter Drill
In Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, Samantha Sloyan plays Margaret White as a woman who has already decided the world is at war with her, and…
