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Whatever Happened to the Horror Icon?

July 4, 2025 by EJ Moreno

Where Have All the Boogeymen Gone? The Rise and Fall of the Horror Icon… There was a time when Freddy Krueger could outshine Batman on a Halloween aisle. Jason Voorhees sat comfortably on talk show couches. Chucky wasn’t just a killer doll; he was a walking, talking merchandise machine. These characters weren’t just villains, they […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Art the Clown, Child's Play, Chucky, Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th, halloween, It, Jason Voorhees, M3GAN, michael meyers, Nosferatu, Saw, Scream, Stranger Things, TERRIFIER, The Conjuring, The Exorcist, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Trick 'r Treat

The Must-See Movies of 2015

June 1, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the cinematic offerings of 2015 with ten must-see modern classics from ten years ago…  The last few years have seen a nice upswing in the amount of creatively ambitious and interesting auteur indie films. Sure, the tentpole market has been a tad dour, but the rise of enthralling indie cinema […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bone Tomahawk, Green Room, Mad Max: Fury Road, Our Little Sister, Sicario, Tangerine, the gift, the lobster, The Survivalist, the witch

7 Mad Movie Doctors Who Deserve More Recognition

June 29, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong profiles seven mad doctors who deserve more recognition for their contributions to crazy cinema science… Movies about mad doctors have been around for the longest time, stretching way back to the black-and-white film era such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein. They have continued to dominate […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: altered states, Corbin Bernsen, dr. giggles, Extreme Measures, frankenhooker, Gene Hackman, James Lorinz, John Lithgow, Larry Drake, Mad Love, Peter Lorre, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Dentist, william hurt

7 Cult 90s Teen Movies You May Have Missed

June 29, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong with seven cult teen movies of the 1990s that you may have missed… The 1990s saw many teen movies spreading across different genres from comedies to horrors and thrillers. Commercially successful ones like Clueless, American Pie and Scream were all genre classics, but plenty of other teen movies went under the radar and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Drop Dead Gorgeous, Empire Records, Idle Hands, Jawbreaker, Pump Up the Volume, the doom generation, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael

Psycho at 65: The Story Behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Masterful Horror

June 22, 2025 by admin

Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho as it turns 65… Psycho is without a doubt Alfred Hitchcock’s most influential and well-known effort in spite of helming such masterful films such as Vertigo, Dial M for Murder and North by Northwest. The movie, which stirred much controversy at the time of its […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, bernard herrmann, Janet Leigh, Psycho, robert bloch

Ranking Reese Witherspoon’s Romantic Comedies

February 1, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong ranks the romantic comedies of Reese Witherspoon… Much like Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, Reese Witherspoon is synonymous with the rom-com genre, even though the actress has explored different genres such as biographical dramas (Walk the Line, Wild) and thrillers (Freeway, Fear). And yet, it was the rom-com genre that skyrocketed Witherspoon’s career, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Four Christmases, Home Again, How Do You Know, Just Like Heaven, Legally Blonde, Overnight Delivery, reese witherspoon, Sweet Home Alabama, This Means War, Your Place or Mine

Batman Begins at 20: How it reinvented franchise filmmaking

June 17, 2025 by Chris Connor

Chris Connor on Batman Begins as it turns 20… It is hard now to think that Batman had become somewhat of a laughing stock in the late 90s through the early 00s, supplanted by the likes of Spider-Man and X-Men who had both launched their own successful franchises in the years following the Dark Knight’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Chris Connor, Movies Tagged With: Batman, batman begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, DC

Ten Unmade Film Masterpieces

June 16, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson looks at the story behind ten great unmade films… “What if…?” scenarios are something which truly gnaw at the human psyche, in almost every context. Socially, romantically, and professionally human beings constantly mull over things that they didn’t do or say, and how they would play it if they had a second chance […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Simon Thompson, Top Stories Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Blood Meridian, Clair Noto, David Lynch, Dune, Gershwin, Kaleidoscope, Leningrad: The 900 Days, Martin Scorsese, napoleon, night train, Ridley Scott, Ronnie Rocket, Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, The Defective Detective, The Tourist, William Friedkin

10 Great Movies About Twins

June 15, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Twins in films have always been a staple; here are ten essential movies about twins… Twins in the movies. It’s a well that’s been drawn upon innumerable times, and that’s just on sites with Hub in the address bar. As far as proper cinema, twins as central characters, whether identical or not, have seen an […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Zed and Two Noughts, Adaptation, blood rage, Dead Ringers, double impact, Double Trouble, Gemini, It Takes Two, Legend, sinners, Sisters, The Parent Trap, Twin Dragons, Twins, Twisted Pair

7 Sci-Fi Horror Movie Hidden Gems You Have To See

June 14, 2025 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at seven overlooked sci-fi horror movies you have to see… Get ready to add a gang of fantastic sci-fi horror films to your watchlist as we explore the sub-genre’s hidden gems that keep us up at night. If you’ve heard of these films or are learning about them for the first time, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Detention, eXistenZ, hardware, Lifeforce, splinter, The Crazies, Village of the Damned

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