By Horror has always been philosophical, even when it pretends otherwise. Its monsters test the boundaries separating human from animal, living from dead, natural from supernatural, and self from other. Horror asks what remains of morality when ordinary social rules collapse. It also forces us to confront an especially peculiar aesthetic
Blu-ray Review: Deadly Kung-Fu Factor
I’ve been thinking a bit about “lost movies.” A lot of silent films are lost because nitrate film is dangerous and self-destructive. Other movies have become lost because nobody wants to watch them anymore. One of the fun features for the Cinema Overdrive movie series was they’d run a few
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence Stars Prepare Us for the War on Vegetables
Those pesky killer tomatoes have been quiet for a while, but like many of our cult franchise faves, they were way overdue for a reboot! Enter this year’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a fifth film in the Killer Tomatoes series that follows a young biotech prodigy developing
Mike Flanagan Joins Cavill’s “Warhammer”?
Beloved horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan, who directed “Doctor Sleep” and created Netflix’s “Midnight Mass” and “The Haunting of Hill House” mini-series, has found a new gig. It appears that Flanagan has already joined the long-in-development “Warhammer 40,000” adaptation in the works at Amazon, one which has Henry Cavill heavily involved.
Disney, Culkin Discuss More “Home Alone”?
Actor Macaulay Culkin was recently spotted on the Disney lot, sparking talk about a potential relaunch of the “Home Alone” franchise. The Town podcast’s Matt Belloni says “Disney is salivating” over the possibility of another sequel with Culkin returning, something the actor has refused to do for over three decades.
