Tag: Script-to-Screen

“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...

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’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,...

Sequels come with a certain degree of baggage. That is to say, the sequel’s greatest enemy is expectation, more often than not brought on...

Horror is a genre of fear, in all of its forms. Fear of the unknown, fear of the self, fear of the other— the...

For years I thought my earliest theatrical experience belonged to Duck Tales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990). Even in my hazy,...

As were most teenagers in the late 90s, I was a Tim Burton fan. It was hard not to be given his striking aesthetic...

When it comes to the movies, comedy was my first love. Sure, horror has my heart these days, but I can’t deny that for a...

In the summer of 2004, I spent my Friday nights shilling concessions to people trying to catch the latest blockbuster releases. As they are...

The soft glow of multi-colored florescent lights was the only thing polluting the darkness. The shadows from the limbs of the faux-evergreen which they...

Long before I had ever seen a horror movie in full, I was well aware that a man wearing a hockey mask and brandishing...

As a burgeoning horror fan in the mid-2000s, it became rather apparent fairly quickly that not everyone in the world was as into the...

Everything transforms eventually, in one way or another. But, let me back up… While 1981 saw the release of three rather large in scope werewolf...

My imagination was running wild. The menacing heads of encroaching zombies stretched as far as the yellow and black horizon, under the shadow of a...

Growing up, my house tended to be the spot where most of my friends hung out. We had video games, a pantry stacked with...

In my fledgling days of horror fandom, browsing the new release aisle at the local retailers was a weekly tradition. Every Tuesday, I would...