Vanessa Maki with ten horror films that channel true crime… Throughout horror history, many horror films have been inspired by (loosely or otherwise) true crime cases. Whether it’s the mild inspiration that was taken from Ed Gein for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Kevin Williamson being so frightened by the Gainesville Ripper’s murder spree […]
100 Years of Horror: Unmissable Movies from 1924 to 2024
We’re diving back through a hundred years of horror and picking one unmissable film every ten years from 1924 to 2024… The history of cinema, from silent pictures to a stellar selection of horror films this year alone, shows that the horror genre has plenty to offer discerning viewers. If you want to add some gems […]
Nowhere Left to Hide: The Rise of Tech-Savvy Killers in Horror
Amy Watkins on the rise of the tech-savvy killer in the horror genre… A demonic, murderous doll. A deranged maniac set on revenge in a small town. A silent masked killer lurking in the shadows. These are the faces that haunt us. The faces that forced us to lock our doors, check the backseats of […]
Who is the Best Final Girl in Horror?
EJ Moreno looks at ten influential and badass final girls… Did Carol J. Clover think we’d have endless discourse around the term she coined in her 1992 novel Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film? God, no, but thankfully she’s given horror fans endless conversations about who is the real screaming queen […]
A Brief History of Christmas Horror | Flickering Myth Movie Chat
EJ Moreno and Allen Christian sit down to take a brief journey through the history of Christmas horror movies, from cult classics such as Black Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Gremlins and Jack Frost (the 1997 killer snowman one, rather than the 1998 Michael Keaton snowman one) to more recent offerings such as 2015’s Krampus. […]
Movie Review – Black Christmas (2019)
Black Christmas, 2019. Directed by Sophia Takal. Starring Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O’Grady, Aleyse Shannon, Lucy Currey, Madeleine Adams, Ben Black, Simon Mead, and Caleb Eberhardt. SYNOPSIS: A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer […]
Movie Review – Black Christmas (2019)
Black Christmas, 2019. Directed by Sophia Takal. Starring Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O’Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, and Cary Elwes. SYNOPSIS: A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy. Nobody […]
The Black Christmas reboot gets a new TV spot
With less than a month to go until the release of Black Christmas, a new TV spot has arrived online for Universal Pictures’ PG-13 remake of the classic 70s slasher, which we have for you here… SEE ALSO: Black Christmas screenwriter defends the remake’s PG-13 rating Just in time for the holidays comes a timely […]
Black Christmas screenwriter defends the remake’s PG-13 rating
With the MPAA officially rating Blumhouse Productions’ upcoming Black Christmas remake as PG-13 for “violence, terror, thematic content involving sexual assault, language, sexual material and drinking”, screenwriter April Wolfe has spoken out to defend the film for avoiding the R-rating of the 1974 original and the early 2016 remake. Here’s the deal: We wrote it […]
Blumhouse’s Black Christmas remake gets a poster and trailer
Earlier this summer it was revealed that Blumhouse Productions is remaking the 70s horror Black Christmas, and now we have a poster and trailer for this latest take on the slasher classic, which is directed by Sophia Takal (Always Shine) and features a cast that includes Imogen Poots, Lily Donoghue, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady, Simon […]
