GUEST POST: Author Ronald Kelly’s Ten Creature Feature Books for Frightful Halloween Reading By RONALD KELLY Halloween. For some kids, All Hallows Eve is as magical as Christmas and as redeeming as Easter Sunday. The planning, the anticipation, and finally, the...
Interview: Composer Robert Ellis-Geiger Dissects His Haunting “Raven’s Hollow” Score By JORDAN VON NETZER Last September Shudder announced that it had picked up Christopher Hatton’s gothic mystery, Raven’s Hollow. Almost a year later, the wait is finally...
TIFF ’22 MOVIE REVIEW: Tilda Swinton Delivers Another Haunting Performance in A24’s “THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER” By DANITA STEINBERG Starring Tilda Swinton, Carly-Sophia Davies and Joseph MydellWritten and directed by Joanna HoggA24 Directed by...
Homemade Horrors: An Evolution By MATT CARLIN Prologue: Genesis What is it about the DIY filmmakers producing homespun horror films that inspires delight and continues to attract an audience? I trace my interest back to Charles Band’s 1992 Full Moon opus, Demonic...
ARCHIVAL HORROR: Cinephilia and Chaos in John Carpenter’s “CIGARETTE BURNS” By MICHAEL BROWN Archives hold the allure of rarity. In an age of seemingly endless access to vast quantities of cultural material at our fingertips – books, music, films, games,...
