DOOMSDAY
The apocalyptic DOOMSDAY is mindless, trashy, derivative and furiously entertaining—and in the end isn’t that the whole point?
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
An impressive exercise in erotic delirium by England’s Peter Strickland, who takes quite a few elements common to grade-B auteurs like Jess Franco and Walerian Borowczyk and creates a tightly controlled fever dream of a movie
THE DEAD NEXT DOOR
This no-budget eighties zombie epic isn’t much from a technical standpoint but has a real low-rent charm, and enough creative bloodletting to fill a dozen mainstream gorefests
WES CRAVEN’S LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT: THE MAKING OF A CULT CLASSIC
A solid, readable account of the making and reception of the original LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT as told to author David Szulkin
Richard Matheson: 1926-2013
What made the late novelist/screenwriter Richard Matheson great? A number of factors, I’d say
HATCHET
A loving, gore-packed tribute to 1980s slasher cinema. Fun, but also excessively lightweight and wildly overhyped
R.I.P. H.R. Giger
The death of Swiss artist Hans Rüdi Giger on May 12, 2014 was an incalculable loss to the horror field, the art world and all lovers of the fantastique
A Tribute to Danny Elfman
It’s no exaggeration to state that Danny Elfman is the most skilled and iconic film composer of our time
2004: The Year in Bedlam
2004: it’s been quite a year
2003: The Year in Bedlam
2003 is over, meaning it’s time once again for my year-end horror movie wrap up