Horror

Stoner horror was everywhere in the 1990s. It was a sign of the times, and there’s something uniquely endearing about a classic piece of late ‘90s teen horror. Not to sound too old, but it was a simpler time, at least cosmetically, and there’s comfort in the familiarity. One of the strongest releases was Rodman

Have you checked out MadS yet? David Moreau’s French zombie masterpiece (really) is the shot of adrenaline the horror subgenre has needed for years in a post (kind of) The Walking Dead world. I know we all remember the 2010s. Zombies, or the undead, or the living dead, or some infected variant therein were everywhere.

Martin Scorsese is a master of cinema, not only in his own filmmaking output, but in his support of indie cinema across genres and decades. And he proved that in a recent interview with the Associated Press (AP). When asked about what films he’s liked recently, he named Jane Schoenbrun’s queer masterpiece I Saw The

Come the end of the year, I’m going to have the hardest time whittling down my Top 10 list. I loved The First Omen and maintain it’s the best franchise horror movie of the past decade. Longlegs lived up to the hype, and Oddity, oh, Oddity—that’s real scary stuff. The frontrunner, however, is likely Jane

The Halloween season is officially over. As we know, the mainstream has closed that chapter for the year and moved on to Hallmark Channel original Christmas movies. But the truly dedicated among us are still watching genre fare. You know who you are. Not only are die-hard horror fans still watching genre pictures, they are

Courtesy of ‘Eli Roth’s History of Horror’ – AMC We share many Stephen King recommendations here at Dread Central. The beloved author is well-known to fans for watching movies and TV and sharing his honest thoughts via social media. On that note, I recently came across one of King’s tweets championing The Stranger, a show based on

Few things scare me as much as spiders do. I know they’re an ecological keystone, a necessary evil in natural pest control, but they’re small, fuzzy, and generally untrustworthy. It doesn’t matter that most species aren’t venomous. I’m liable to keel over in terror before they even get the chance to strike. Naturally, spider horror

Courtesy of Good Morning America on ABC Nosferatu is undoubtedly my most-anticipated horror movie of the year. While The Lighthouse left me floating aimlessly in a dark sea, I’ve been supremely impressed with Robert Eggers’ filmography thus far (yes, including The Northman). More importantly, I simply love a good vampire story. This year’s long-delayed Salem’s

John Carpenter, on the set of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, 1986. TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. Courtesy: Everett Collection. I spend so much of my free time endlessly scrolling through streaming services in search of something to watch. Sometimes I strike gold. Other times I am much

Guillermo del Toro is a cinematic powerhouse whose films always reach a wide audience. But he understands not everyone can be so fortunate. Because del Toro is a considerate guy, he runs a recurring series on social media called ‘Righting a Wrong.’ Via this segment, del Toro defends a film that was unduly maligned by

If you’re from a certain generation, you grew up with Jenni “JWoww” Farley on your TV. One of the main cast members of iconic reality show Jersey Shore, she gained a reputation for drinking, fighting, and speaking her mind. Now, Farley is taking her experience in front of the camera and channeling that into her

Last month, I had the pleasure to attend a film shoot for a local indie horror feature, smack dab in the middle of Central Texas, my neck of the woods. It’s been awhile since I’ve been on any set, let alone a horror one, so this was an opportunity I wouldn’t allow myself to pass

Sometimes, when things aren’t going quite right in a relationship, a vacation or weekend away feels like the best method to reset and reconnect with your partner. Nothing better than getting away from work and other distractions, right? Well, in writer and director Justin Geldzahler’s directorial debut Glue Trap, that couldn’t be further from the

New artwork and a trailer have been revealed for MUBI’s upcoming The Girl With the Needle, directed by Magnus von Horn. Von Horn is a promising filmmaker and a Polish National Film School graduate whose previous films The Here After and Sweat were award-winning and well-received critically. His films often explore themes of isolation, criminality, and murder. With his next

Addison Rae, 2023. © TriStar Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection I’ve not historically been a big fan of Eli Roth. His films are often sophomoric and the humor doesn’t always land for me. However, the Cabin Fever director’s latest picture, Thanksgiving, shows a different side of the filmmaker. A more mature version, perhaps. I enjoyed

Chris Pine, Denzel Washington, 2010, ph: Robert Zuckerman/TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved./courtesy Everett Collection I’ve never met someone who dislikes Denzel Washington. And I hope such a person doesn’t exist. The actor has an unmatched level of appeal. In fact, he may be the most beloved thespian of our

Perdita Weeks, 2014. ©Universal Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection I have always felt that critics were dead wrong about As Above, So Below. It’s an intense and inventive spin on the found footage genre. It’s like National Treasure: Book of Shadows. See what I did there? I dig the film so much that I previously championed it

If you’re a fan on Wes Craven’s underrated airplane thriller Red Eye, then you need to add Bo Youngblood’s In Flight onto your weekend watchlist. Directed and produced by Youngblood, the film follows a woman who wakes up on a plane with no idea how she got there. What follows is a tense thrill ride

Time travel is all the rage these days. Maybe it’s because the present moment feels so… not great? Time travel is an angle, and today, it’s one of the key distinguishing elements that can successfully set a slasher movie apart. Not to go full Roger Ebert, but he was correct, broadly, when he noted a

Narrowing down the scariest movie of any given year is incredibly challenging. This year alone, I was chilled to the bone by Nicholas Cage’s turn in Oz Perkins’ Longlegs, and Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen yielded some of the most frightening, indelible horror imagery I’ve seen in years. Exhuma was another sensational addition to the

Damien Mc Carthy’s Oddity stunned the world when it premiered at this year’s SXSW film festival. Here at Dread Central, we couldn’t get enough of the film, writing in our four-star review, “This is a pitch-perfect tale about supernatural revenge, gross men, and freaky wooden men. Prepare to be scared.” Oddity did indeed scare, so

DOC OF CHUCKY – Still 3 Very few franchises maintain the same level of quality as Don Mancini’s Chucky Universe. With seven films and three seasons of the best horror show on television (#SaveChucky), fans still want more time with the beloved killer doll. This is why after the recent and unforgivable cancellation of Chucky,

Who doesn’t love Josh Hartnett? The teen-heartthrob-turned-adult-sex symbol has an incredibly impressive filmography. Not to mention, he has worked extensively in the genre space for much of his career. From Halloween H20 to Penny Dreadful, Hartnett has appeared in horror for the big and small screens. The actor’s latest foray into the genre scene, Trap,

Coralie Fargeat’s body horror masterpiece The Substance is one of the best movies of the past several years. It is also, understandably, one of the most polarizing. Following the film’s premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, critics were divided on Fargeat’s very blunt (and very French) take on modern body horror ethos. Does The

Sleeping is an essential part of our existence. But, it’s also a bodily process that remains a mystery to scientists, with its mechanisms and intricacies remaining elusive. Even though it’s something marvelous, in the truest sense of the word, sleep is so mundane that it is often taken for granted. The speculative science of Somnium

“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…” If asked to, I bet most of you could recite the rest of this nursery rhyme from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Released forty years ago this month, Wes Craven’s seminal slash-sterpiece entered our nightmares. That’s four decades of fantastical terror. Forty years of one of the

I am convinced that Stephen King does not sleep. The author has time to crank out bestselling novels left and right and still finds time to consume an obscene amount of media on the side. I think he watches more movies than I do and I watch movies for a living. Fortunately, he always takes

Quentin Tarantino, 2007. ©Weinstein Company LLC/Courtesy Everett Collection I have become so disenchanted with Hollywood over the past 20 years. Since Wall Street got involved with film financing, we’ve seen safe IP-based films dominate multiplexes. There’s very little originality or creativity getting past the gatekeepers these days. Whenever we see something unexpected, it comes from

Dating is hell and so are dating apps. In fact, dating apps may just be the ninth circle of Hell awaiting us all. Hyperbolic? Maybe. But not so much so in the new horror-thriller Love Bomb, directed by David Guglielmo and written by Kathy Charles. Three strangers just looking for a good time are brought

I am both a die-hard fan of giallo pictures and a relentless champion of underdog cinema. So, you know I jumped at the chance to speak to the merits of a film that checks both of the aforementioned boxes. The feature in question is Bruce Robinson’s Jennifer 8, a box office bomb that didn’t resonate with