The best horror films are often not so much about what is onscreen as about what they tells us about ourselves, expressing fears of isolation, or abandonment, of
There are few writers whose work has passed so unconsciously into common parlance that those who reference it do not know the origin. The phrase “the lunatics have
In a garish hotel room, Nicholas Eastman (Maleficent‘s Brenton Thwaites) receives a message from the individual who identifies himself as Nomad. Having already hacked into the systems of
It may have been John Carpenter’s Hallowe’en in 1978 which is generally regarded as the film which brought the slasher horror subgenre to prominence but it was far
Like Lost in La Mancha to Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote (which ironically is in production again, fifteen years after original thwarted attempt), there are
Released in 2010, Gareth Edward’s Monsters was “the little film that could.” His debut feature film, funded for less than $500,000, it toured the festival circuit to great
The male locker room of a small town American high school, driven by the twin tribal ethics of bravado and bullying; when there isn’t a predator to eliminate
It’s not enough to have a big budget; the major studios love to throw their money around, actively boasting about how much their latest tentpole picture cost as
Many of the best family animated features, no matter how entertaining, feature at their heart a child’s deepest, most fundamental fears. The loss of a parent ranks amongst