Tag: Paul Farrell

“The first monster that must frighten you is the filmmaker himself” —Wes Craven In the earliest days of my horror movie explorations, there were a handful...

Every movie-lover, at their core, has a small collective of films and viewing experiences that define them. Films that forever altered their path in...

Werewolf movies are often defined by their transformation sequences. They can live and die in those handful of seconds when the human form is...

By the time I finally sat down and watched Trick ‘r Treat (2007), I had been living in hyped anticipation for it for close to two years....

The first time my young, horror adverse mind even considered the Halloween franchise was over a decade before I would ever see even a...

The young woman at the ticket counter smiled politely as my mom handed over the money for the tickets. She didn’t ask questions— she didn’t...

This week's episode was originally going to be 1998's Spiral with Andrew Roebuck but due to a medical emergency, the discussion on George Iida's...

The teenager at the register gave my friends and I a decidedly inquisitive look as he held the clear box containing the R-rated cassette...

I suppose I knew Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) was a sequel, but for all intents and purposes in my eight-year-old mind, that was definitively...

As the decade shifted and the 90s became the 2000s, my taste in movies was shifting too. I was in high school then, taking...

As a high school student in the late 90s and early 2000s who was only peripherally aware of horror, even I knew the name...

A haze of red and purple light fades in and out of the blackness, their source becoming more and more distinct as the hues...

Much like the seemingly indestructible nature of their antagonists, the slasher sub-genre has a way of resurrecting itself every generation to terrorize a new...

I avoided the Jaws sequels for many years before I finally succumbed to the inevitable franchise marathon that lies in wait for all horror...

I had this friend growing up who was known for his Dad’s VHS collection. His living room was lined with wooden cabinets containing every...

I was a nervous kid. I had a knack for finding ways of being afraid. If I rode a bike, I could fall off....

One afternoon in college, I found myself alone on a lazy Saturday with nothing at all to do. As was customary for me at...

Sequels are tricky. On the one hand, they exist because the property they’re based on has some degree of popularity; people, places, and things...

Holiday slashers are a time-honored tradition. A subgenre of great renown amongst horror fans, these entries become some of the most rewatched titles in...

There are some movies that just feel dangerous. As if they’re capable of anything. Movies that seem to be constructed more of dread than...

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with movie trailers. On the one hand, they can be exciting, short-film quality creations, enticing me to see...

In the early 2000’s, for my friends and I, Friday nights were reserved for the movie theater. It didn’t matter what movie it was—...

The pop culture zeitgeist is a machine that can metamorphose its icons into something digestible. Safe. Crowd— and therefore family— friendly. The more press...

There’s this place in horror that exists somewhere in between the innocent and wholesome and the brutal and disturbing. A place that feels so...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: as a kid who was terrified of the mere idea of watching a horror movie,...