2016 was a year primarily known for breaking tradition. The status quo was broken many times during this year, mostly to troubling affect. This brazen lack of regard for normalcy seeped into many of the cinematic highlights of the year. Horror is about challenging the perceived norms, so it’s only normal to expect that horror […]
I’m just going to state it openly and without hesitation — 2016 was one of the best years for horror in quite a while. For the first time since the Grue Crew and I have been doing these lists — I actually had to put some thought into my choices — past years have […]
The Grue-Crew are at it again, counting down the best horror films of the year. 2016 was a bastard of a year stealing the most talented from us way too soon and shaking up politics and popular opinion. Yet, horror films ruled supreme winning at the box office and surprising horror fans on Blu-ray and […]
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Seemingly out of nowhere Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures released 10 Cloverfield Lane, a tangentially related film to Cloverfield (2008) from J.J. Abrams and director Dan Trachtenberg. The sci-fi / thriller hybrid features a tour-de-force performance from its cast, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr., and a tense Hitchcockian approach to the […]
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The first thing 10 Cloverfield Lane does is draw its audience into its surprisingly intimate tale, shakes every member a little senseless and then drops them off just as lost as the film’s lead, Michele (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The result is an outstanding, memorable experience. The story forces its audience to be as paranoid, puzzled […]
A24 distributors release the serious horror film The Witch into theaters this past weekend to decent box office and critical praise, for the most part. The Grue-crew are on board to examine the slow-burn thriller that – small spoilers – features…a witch. Is it scary? Is it authentic? Is it any good? Ha! HNR is […]
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The adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith parody hit Pride and Prejudice and Zombies stumbles into theaters this weekend making barely a dent in the box office. While the horror-fied version of the Jane Austin classic was a hit with Vixen and Doc Rotten, it did not impress Thomas Mariani and the Black Saint much at […]
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First, a HUGE thank you to the early Patreon Grue-Believers and the Grue-Crew for participating in the very first Gruesome Magazine premium survey. The results were a revealing and surprising. The magic is just beginning too. Below I will go into the numbers from the survey as provided by Grue-crew member Jeff Mohr, but I […]
Blumhouse delivers MARTYRS, a remake of the French film of the same name from 2008 from Pascal Laugier – a film that helped usher in the “extreme” genre of European films. Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz direct the new version from a script by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) with a watered down US slant. […]
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