WATCH THE SERIES: Fright Night
Fright Night was the first modern horror film I ever watched. I remember painting in my parent’s kitchen and my father telling me not to be afraid and just watch it with him. It’s a great start — combining the Hammer films that I loved that didn’t scare me with new school special effects and metacommentary. […]
Ken Foster (2016)
According to CBC, “In some circles, Ken Foster is a well-respected artist with a unique style and an international following. To others, he is known as the guy living in alleys who has been hawking his work on city’s streets for more than 20 years.” For over eighteen months, documentary filmmaker Josh Laner followed Foster, known to locals as […]
Channel Zero: Candle Cove (2016)
Our frustration with so-called “elevated horror” and television tripe like American Horror Story made us really tentative toward even giving this series a try. Luckily, we overcame our fears of it being pablum and discovered something truly unsettling. The beauty of Channel Zero is that each season is short — six episodes with the same cast — and […]
The Void (2016)
Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, who also worked on Manborg, created this ode to all that is wonderful and slimy and bloody and gross about 80’s horror. Seriously, this film feels like a spiritual cousin to Prince of Darkness by way of Halloween 2, with an army of cultists surrounding an understaffed hospital which becomes a gateway to […]
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