Dorian at Postmodern Barney has an excellent – and hilarious – post today on why he hates vampires.
It boils down to sexual violence, Anne Rice, homophobia, and goth wankery. It’s a dead on article and funny, too.
He couldn’t be more right about why the vampire is such a worn-out archetype at this point and [...]

What is it with serial killers and music in movies? Has anyone else noticed this? Serial killers always always always listen to one of two kinds of music: classical or heavy metal.
What is this about?
There’s the refined version of the serail killer, the ultra-intelligent, Ted Bundy/Hannibal Lecter who creates his blood opuses to a [...]

The Believer, the very excellent monthly magazine about books and culture that spun out of Dave Eggers’ McSweeney’s about 18 months ago, features an interesting book excerpt in its October issue (the one with John Kerry on the cover).
The excerpt is from a book (to be published this spring by Believer Books) called H.P. Lovecraft: [...]

(or the Month of Horror Blogging is winding down)
Rick’s excellent Eat More People is continuing its month-long horror blogstravaganza. Go check it out.
He and his guest bloggers have covered werewolf movies, some Peter Jackson, zombies, haunted houses, and how Kramer vs. Kramer is a horror movie.
Only 9 more days. Eat More People before stores run [...]

2004/CanadaDirector: Miguel GallegoStarring: Allison Pill, Jessica Greco, Kerry SegalIMDB | Official Site
There’s an old Monty Python bit about how a king stands out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark. It’s an insult because they mean the king is like a stream of piss, but it doesn’t have to be rude.
When [...]

UK/2004Director: Christian JamesStarring: James Heathcote, Dan Palmer, Nicola Connell, Yazz FettoIMDB | Official Site
2004 is a good year for horror/comedy films from the U.K. First, megahit Shaun of the Dead took both the UK and the US by storm. Now, with a smaller budget and smaller release, comes Freak Out, a movie featuring perhaps the [...]

For any of you USers in the Central/Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Eastern Connecticut region:
The Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival starts tonight, Thursday the 14th of October.
I’ve never been before, but the schedule looks great, with a ton of short films (so hard to find short horror!), a night of Asian horror, German expressionist cinema, [...]

Adapted by | Artist: MeimuFrom the book by: Koji SuzukiPublisher: ADV Manga
Most of us have felt the stark, icy terror of not knowing what lurks in the ocean below us as we swim, what awaits us in the darkened, unfamiliar room as in we walk.
What we’re afraid of is the possibility that [...]

2004/CanadaDirected by: Grant HarveyStarring: Katherine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Nathaniel Arcand, JR Bourne, Hugh Dillon, Tom McCamus IMDB
Has there ever been a really good prequel? Does such a creature exist? Anybody? Beuller?
I can’t think of one. Of recent vintage, we’ve had The Exorcist: The Beginning, Red Dragon, and the most recent Star Wars trilogy. The best [...]

1961/USDirector: William CastleStarring: Jean Arless, Patricia Breslin, Glenn Corbett, and Eugenie LeontovichIMDB
Homicidal is a knockoff of Psycho that famed horror showman William Castle released the year after Alfred Hitchcock chilled the world with his tale of madness, murder, and crossdressing.
Castle, known for his crowd-drawing and -pleasing gimmicks (among the greatest of these was the Tingler, [...]