Nolan is joined by Emily von Seele, Ben McBride, Paul Farrell, and Philip Yount to discuss Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) and John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness (1995). The group catches up on recent horror discoveries and rewatches before the fabric between fiction and reality breaks down and the creations of a couple of masters of horror cross over into the real world.Read More »
By: Emily von Seele
Theo Maassen’s debut feature, Billy, is a black comedy that explores the darker side of art, fame, and creative partnerships. Ventriloquist Gerard de Groot (Bruno Vanden Broecke) initially leapt to stardom as the result of an altercation with a surly judge on a comedy reality show. Despite the 15 minutes of fame nature of his debut, he managed to stay on top of the entertainment business for the next decade with his act, a back and forth conversation with his overly surly, filterless dummy, Billy. Gerard and Billy built and empire together and it seemed that nothing could bring them down.
By: Emily von Seele
One of the highlights of the inaugural North Bend Film Festival, Nicolas Pesce’s sophomore effort is a twisted game of cat and mouse as two equally disturbed characters try to navigate a bizarre encounter that only gets stranger as time goes on. If you enjoyed The Eyes Of My Mother, you’re in for a treat.
Nolan is joined by Kat Adams and Thomas Foster, as well as special guest Adrian Torres from Horrorversary, to discuss Takashi Shimizu’s Reincarnation (2006) and Kenneth Branagh’s Dead Again (1991). The group recounts recent horror discoveries and rewatches before they’re murdered, then subsequently reincarnated in order to get justice against their killers.
By: Emily von Seele
I don’t usually review books, but, like the titular character of today’s topic, I’m going to try something a little different. Maury the Miserable Vampire is a children’s book that I wish had been around during my childhood. When I was a kid, horror-themed children’s entertainment wasn’t easy to come by — especially during the 11 months out of the year that didn’t revolve around Halloween. The closest I got to a book like this when I was young was probably the Bunnicula series, but even that (while rad) was for an older audience. In a market fully dominated by Pokey Little Puppy and whatever that thing in the Little Critter books was, there was a definite gap when it came to vampires, werewolves, and the supernatural.
Nolan is joined by Paul Farrell and Thomas Foster, as well as special guests Zack Long and Chris Vander Kaay from Scriptophobic, to discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and Mario Bava’s The Evil Eye (1963). The group shares recent horror discoveries and rewatches before witnessing a murder in a foreign land and getting caught up in a web of assassination and alphabetical murder plots.
By: Nolan McBride
When Unfriended arrived in 2015, the found footage subgenre was already on the decline, having saturated the market for the previous five or six years following the success of movies like Paranormal Activity. The format, it seemed, was wearing thin, prone to being too formulaic and one-note (though, to this day, I’ll still give most of them a shot). The movie reviewed well and grossed a ton of money relative to its meager budget ($1 million), but it seemed to exit the conversation just as quickly as it had arrived.
