When I was a 16 year old and reading Dante’s The Divine Comedy in my high school English class, I was playing a lot of video games. Nothing against Dante, but it’s safe to say that Half Life and The Legend of Zelda had a more profound effect on my intellectual upbringing than he did. [...]

The term “Vampire movie” always seems to be changing on us. Sometimes it means bloodthirsty monsters, sometimes it means Kiefer Sutherland circa 1984… and sometimes it means British heartthrobs with glitter on their face (for those of you playing at home, that would be now). But despite women’s misappropriated feelings toward vampiric romanticism as of [...]

Bram Stoker never lived to see the popularity of Dracula.  And when the novel was considered public domain, the rest of his family rarely received any money or were allowed creative input on film adaptations or literary sequels.  This year, the novel Dracula: The Un-Dead brings the character back to the Stokers, with Dacre Stoker, Bram’s [...]

On January 8, 2010, Lionsgate will release Daybreakers, a film written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig (Undead), in which vampires have taken over the world and are running out of human blood to survive.  Recently, I was able to read a 2006 draft of the script, courtesy of a kind source, and see [...]

Earlier this month, Adam Green and ArieScope Pictures released their annual Halloween horror-comedy short for 2009.  This one stars Green’s friend and collaborator, director Paul Solet (Grace), in Jack Chop, a spoof on Vince Offer’s notorious Slap Chop commercial.
Solet is great at mimicking Vince, as well as adding his own unique spin on his salesman, [...]

According to Dr. Andover, “Fear is the little death that consumes you.”
In the webseries, Fear Clinic, Andover, played by the great Robert Englund, who spoke to HorrorCrush recently, is so determined to cure phobias that he forces all of his patients to hallucinate their worst nightmares.  But when the line between reality and fantasy gets [...]

In his interview with HorrorCrush, John Dies At The End author David Wong shared that he set out to make an unpredictable horror novel. “Every time the reader thinks they know where the story is headed, it goes crashing through the guardrails and rolling down the mountainside.”
Wong has quite the sense of humor, but he [...]

Tomorrow, September 15th, the horror film Grace will hit DVD and Blu-Ray.
If you live in Burbank, California, you may want to visit Dark Delicacies tomorrow night where writer-director Paul Solet, actress Jordan Ladd (Cabin Fever), and producer-director Adam Green will appear for a special signing at 7PM.
Grace follows the story of Madeline Matheson (Ladd), who [...]

Milla Jovovich trades in zombie-killing boots for beachwear.
Since 1997’s ‘The Fifth Element’, movie goers have enjoyed watching Jovovich kick ass in spandex. With Resident Evil 4 in production and rumors of a Resident Evil 5, it’s no wonder she needed to take a vacation. To Hawaii. For new release The Perfect [...]

Sam Raimi has returned from the wilderness of the summer blockbusters to make a movie for his devoted horror fans. Though not exactly lighting the boxoffice on fire, Raimi has made a movie that hits every horror button and then some.  Alison Lohman plays an earnest young gal who makes the mistake of insulting a [...]