In Gruesome’s ongoing survey, see what horror hits left some of our favorite fear personalities—and today’s genre practitioners—Scarred for Life! Skip that summer vacation and watch a scary movie today! Mali Elfman, writer/director (Fun Size Horror: Volume One and Next Exit, playing the Tribeca Film Festival) “I have a favorite horror film that I saw […]
You’re gonna freak out with Gruesome’s exclusive clip from co-writer/director Gabriele Mainetti’s wild dark fantasy Freaks Out, which launches the 21st edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema at NYC’s Lincoln Center (playing the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street). The fest runs June 9 to 15 and will screen 15 acclaimed Italian films […]
Italian writer/director Gabriele Mainetti reinvents the superhero movie with supernatural audacity and…freaks! Though the homegrown genre scene in Italy has been on life support for decades, one Italian filmmaker is slowly making a difference. Gabriele Mainetti made his feature film debut with his 2015 superhero farce They Call Me Jeeg. The movie took the festival […]
If you are a fan of Giallo and Italian horror, there is only one place to be this summer… From June 17-29, NYC’s Lincoln Center and Italy’s Cinecittà will be unveiling Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective. The two esteemed institutions will co-present the iconic Italian horror director’s influential feature films, 17 of them […]
In Gruesome’s ongoing survey, see what horror hits left some of our favorite fear personalities—and today’s genre practitioners—Scarred for Life! You’ve been warned! Joseph Bishara, composer (Insidious trilogy, The Conjuring trilogy, Annabelle, Malignant) “Dawn of the Dead [1979] played at my local drive-in when I was 8. I remember seeing the ads, and the invitation […]
We’re halfway to Halloween, and by August the stores will already be selling their spooky wares for the fall season. For we horror fans, however, Halloween is every day. But what movie lit the spark? We all remember the one which cemented our love for the genre. In Gruesome’s ongoing survey, see what horror hits […]
ULTRASOUND starts off like countless horror films. During a stormy night, Glen’s (Vincent Kartheiser) car breaks down. Seeking help, he’s welcomed into the house of an overly-friendly couple, Art and Cyndi (Bob Stephenson and Chelsea Lopez). But when Art insists that Glen sleep with his much younger wife, things start to get a little weird. […]
Wanna see something really scary? Then let’s March right into another month of classic terrors guaranteed to sabotage your sleep. Read on as Gruesome continues its regular survey to see what fright flicks left today’s genre practitioners Scarred for Life! Sam Walker, writer/director (The Seed, premiering on Shudder March 10) “An American Werewolf in London […]
New year, old fears. What classic horror films still give you the willies? Let’s continue our regular survey to see what fright flicks left today’s current genre practitioners (and a few past favorites) Scarred for Life! Neal Marshall Stevens, writer (Monsters, Hellraiser: Deader, Thir13en Ghosts) and author (A Sense of Dread: Getting Under the Skin […]
New York City’s Film Forum www.filmforum.org (209 West Houston; [212] 727-8110) will be presenting a double dose of great genre films as part of its Winter season repertory program. Best of all, you can catch the stars themselves talking about their work after these special shows. First up is Otto Preminger’s 1965 mystery thriller BUNNY […]
For this month’s installment of Scarred for Life, we’re trying something a little different. The new lockdown-inspired anthology ISOLATION debuts this week on VOD from Gravitas Ventures, uniting the talents of 11 genre directors telling nine unique terror tales. To celebrate ISOLATION’s release, we enlisted 13 of the omnibus’ directors, screenwriters and producers to tell […]
“Beware the spam mail” is just one of the messages inside THE BETA TEST, the clever new thriller from writer/director/actor Jim Cummings. The filmmaker behind THUNDER ROAD and THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW has teamed with his acting partner PJ McCabe on the movie, with McCabe co-writing and co-directing alongside Cummings (also in the current […]
’Tis the season…to scream for your life! Everyone watches horror films and TV during the month of Halloween fun. But what about the movies that latched onto our brains at a tender age and refused to let go? Let’s continue our regular survey to see what scare flicks left today’s current genre practitioners Scarred for […]
Everyone loves a good horror film, right? And we all can name the one we saw at a tender age that set us on a path of terror worship, that obsessed us, that messed us up, that scarred us for life… In recent years, I’ve been on a mission to assemble an ongoing list of […]
Chicago-born actor Pat Healy has been a welcome presence in horror films over the years, including memorable turns in Compliance, Cheap Thrills, The Innkeepers, The Pale Door and Velvet Buzzsaw. The 50-year stage-trained performer frequently plays excitable, edgy characters, both on big screen and small. In We Need to Do Something, Healy dials that persona […]