Say what you will about Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (and if you see it, you’ll undoubtedly have a lot to say about the provocative film)—even its detractors would agree that the movie is audacious. It rips out the skeleton of Dario Argento’s 1977 witch flick of the same name and piles on new narratives about Nazism,…

We only have so many Purge nights ahead of us, so get out all your murder fantasies while you can!

The new Halloween sequel is such an astonishing success, grossing $76.2 million its opening weekend against a $10 million budget, that more of its ilk is inevitable. (Good thing they left the door open for a sequel even though much of the vibe of the movie and chatter surrounding it suggested that this was the final…

Jason Blum is the CEO and founder of Blumhouse Productions, which has become one of the more prominent outlets for horror these days with movies and franchises like Get Out, Paranormal Activity, The Purge, and more. There’s just one problem: they don’t make horror movies directed by women. At all.

“Sometimes dead is better” goes a line from Pet Sematary, but Pet Sematary no longer practices what it preaches. Stephen King-devised tale about a burial ground that rejuvenates the dead with murderous and at times unintentionally hilarious consequences is being resurrected in a remake due in April (30 years after the…

Selena Gomez seems to be fully pivoting to arthouse chick, a conclusion I’ve drawn after watching clips from A Love Story, her latest collaboration with Petra Collins. In three short Instagram videos, each under 40 seconds long and directed by Collins, Gomez does creepy-ass shit like writhe around in a murky bathtub,…

Last week, I met Ari Aster, the writer and director of the horror film Hereditary, in the A24 office. For about 20 minutes, we talked about genre (he originally shopped Hereditary as a “family tragedy that curdles into a nightmare”), subverting expectations (undoubtedly a reason the film has proved so divisive), the…

“H’aw’ya?” Toni Collette asked me as I entered the conference room at A24's New York City office on Monday. It’s hard to say which was weirder: hearing the actor’s natural Australian accent or seeing her warm and smiling. She spends much of the movie she was in town promoting—Ari Aster’s familial tragedy/horror hybrid …

A dialogue-free teaser for Luca Guadagnino’s riff on Dario Argento’s 1977 classic Suspiria has arrived. While both take place in the world of dance, Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, I Am Love) has been adamant that his Suspiria is not a “remake” (“The word ‘remake’ gives the impression that we want to erase the…

You may be thinking, who on hell or earth would finance or produce–oooohhh, the producer is French. Yes, “master of the erotic thriller” Brian De Palma–whose directing credits include Carrie and Scarface and whose writing credits include Body Double and Femme Fatale–has announced that he is “talking with a French…

There’s trouble in paradise, and by paradise, I mean the discussions about marketing for the upcoming horror film Slender Man. The issue right now is between the producers and Sony Pictures, the studio that’s expected to release the movie later this summer.

“Women always have to put up a fucking fight,” Revenge’s main villain, a chiseled, wealthy businessman, at one point spits at the movie’s heroine Jen while the two are locked in a violent duel. French director Coralie Fargeat’s new movie, released May 11, is the story of one blood-drenched, bullet-drilled, goretastic…

Ever since Jordan Peele released his Academy Award-winning Get Out (and, frankly, set off 2017's incredible horror renaissance in the process), he’s had a slew of projects lined up.

The quiet place is about to get much, much quieter.

A fun but admittedly bleak game to play while watching the countless movies that depict the impending end of the world (or the disastrous results of coming so close to it), is to ask yourself: Could I survive this? When forced to roam for safety, would you find yourself eating human flesh as the roving cannibals of …

Toward the end of my brief chat with Christina Hendricks, on Tuesday, came a moment of such irony, it felt like a contrivance in an undergrad short story about #MeToo. When I attempted to ask Hendricks about this cultural moment in which speaking out—something she’s been doing for years now—has become part of…

Ever since Stranger Things, which felt like watching a mash-up of Stand By Me meets Carrie, everyone’s been thirsty for more ’80s-era Stephen King nostalgia. And after 2017 gave us adaptations of It, Gerald’s Game, and The Dark Tower, the adaptations just kept coming. Now we’re getting a TV show that ties together…

The only sell you need for this movie is that Nicolas Cage scream-sings “Hokey Pokey” while cursing and wielding a sledgehammer in one scene. Mom and Dad is set in a crazy dark-comedy fantasy world where parents become murderous toward their children in droves, almost like the opposite of Boss Baby, where babies got…

In a fitting symbol of the times in which we live, Brett Talley, a 36-year-old lawyer, has been nominated by the Trump administration to a lifetime position as a federal judge, despite having never tried a case and being unanimously deemed “not qualified” by the American Bar Association. This week, many of us learned…

Boo! Pizza! Scared yet? Well, you will be. A trailer for Slice, a somewhat mysterious project from Austin Vesely, has dropped. Before this, his film debut, Vesely previously directed Chance the Rapper videos like “Angels” and “Sunday Candy.” Slice finds him reteaming with Chance, one of the movie’s stars, as well as…