“TITANE”: Julia Ducournau talks one of 2021’s most celebrated horror films By MICHAEL GINGOLD Since it won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in July, TITANE has kept on racking up the accolades, and landed on numerous end-of-year best lists (including ours)....
Michael Gingold’s Best Horror Films of 2021 As the movie business struggled to right itself after being upended by the pandemic in 2020, horror kept right on chugging along. As has been the case for years now, a lot of the best stuff came from the independent sector,...
A “YULETIDE HORROR” announcement and poster for Christmas By MICHAEL GINGOLD The forthcoming documentary promises to be a gift for fans of holiday fear fare. Producer Kieran Nolan Jones, the filmmaker behind TEEN SCREAMS (which he told us about here), got in touch...
Vikings get violent in the trailer for “THE NORTHMAN,” from Robert Eggers (“THE WITCH,” “THE LIGHTHOUSE”) By MICHAEL GINGOLD It’s the filmmaker’s most lavish period piece yet, but still dark as hell. Focus Features has released the trailer and poster for THE NORTHMAN,...
Staring into the Dark: Re-evaluating 2020’s “THE GRUDGE” By PATRICK BRENNAN “I should never listen to you. You told me Nicolas Pesce’s THE GRUDGE was not good. I just watched it. You were wrong.” Filmmaker, musician and former Fangoria editor Chris Alexander wrote...
