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…
Everything in the world has seemed more terrifying in the past few hundred days, so of course it makes sense that 2017 would be the highest grossing year in the history of horror films.
Horror movies: They tickle as much as they terrorize. At least, that’s my experience—it is often a film’s silliness that I recall much more vividly and hold onto more fondly than its scariness (or attempt at it). Hammy acting, baffling dialogue, stupidity beyond your wildest high-school highs—these help fuel my…
Just when you thought music festivals were horrifying enough on their own, Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver is helping to write the forthcoming horror movie, Survive the Night, a movie adaptation of the YA book of the same name which takes place at a music festival.
Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen’s Flower Films is set to produce a horror anthology series, Black Rose Anthology, for the CW according to Deadline. The series is expected to be written and directed entirely by women but is still in its early stages—it’s in development and it seems that not even its pilot has been…
Like most makeup bloggers with hundreds of thousands of followers, Kiana Jones gets stressed out over the never-ending task of increasing her views and likes. With more than 152,000 followers on Instagram and over 427,000 subscribers on Youtube, the 28-year-old vlogger from Perth, Australia, thinks that the views on…
