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Screenshot from the trailer for The Conjuring, featuring the exorcist couple doing a little peekaboo in a spooky basement

Horror’s Path Through Christian Cosmology

By Lyana Rodriguez • March 17th, 2023

Howlikely is it that you find a monster justifying something truly dangerous and soul-crushing with a bit of Scripture? How easy is it, especially now, to discover a religious bigot justifying the shedding of blood for the sake of their own personal crusade?

A screenshot from the trailer for Black Sunday (1977), featuring a split shot with two closeups of some very tense looking agents

Bombs Bursting in Air: The Other Black Sunday (1977)

By Orrin Grey • March 15th, 2023

The movie’s producer, Robert Evans, quotes Henry Kissinger in telling him, “You can’t make it a political picture. You can’t take sides. You can’t make it anti or pro anyone.” How much they succeeded or failed at that is up for debate.

A poster for Santo contra Cerebro del Mal, with the white-masked Lucador on the left with a machine gun facing off against a black-masked wrestler and another scene of a man in a suit punching another man

For the Good of All Mankind: The Two Earliest Films Starring the Silver Masked Man

By Orrin Grey • March 2nd, 2023

The state of these pictures can be attributed to the fact that they were the first of their kind, filmed simultaneously, on a shoestring budget and in quite a hurry.

The title card for Invaders for Mars, featuring the text of the title over some planets and stars

Dreams & Nightmares: Invaders from Mars (1953) Painstakingly Restored on 4K

By Orrin Grey • January 26th, 2023

Ignite Films has planted their flag as a company to watch for what their own logline calls “classics for the future.”

Run It Back

A black-and-white photograph of a Black woman standing in front of a Senegalese mask hung on a wall. Her hands rest on the wall to either side of it, and she turns to look over her right shoulder towards something or someone behind her.

1966

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 25th, 2023

Freedom is one of those fundamental and recurring items in how we think about the world we live in and our place in it. There are few times where this was clearer than in 1966.

A still from the trailer of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, where the three young adults are dressed in their 70s weirdo finest, in front of some wood paneled walls, caressing a corpse and laughing at their hijinks

It’s a Boneyard: Revisiting Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) on 4K

By Orrin Grey • January 19th, 2023

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is a fairly accurate portrait of what macabre weirdos like us got up to – or imagined ourselves getting up to – in the days before we had the internet to distract us.

Rookie of the Year

Rand Peltzer, inventor patriarch of the family featured in the film Gremlins, sits at the kitchen table with a face full of shaving cream while his son Billy looks on, laughing.

Ranking the Gremlins Gizmos

By Matt Marrone • January 6th, 2023

In honor of Rand Peltzer, we have decided to rank the unappreciated genius’ six greatest gizmos, from worst to first.

Interlinked

Greta, the female gremlin from Gremlins 2, poses in a sequined red gown and pink feather boa, a large red flower pinned to her shiny green mane of wavy tresses. Her makeup is flawless on her scaly green face.

Gremlin Girl Energy

By Phoenix Simms • January 5th, 2023

Greta is both a problem and a potential solution to that problem, but when read under a more feminist-revisionist lens, she’s charmingly camp, she’s a 90s icon and she’s absolutely that bitch.

screenshot from Nightmare at noon, with four characters hiding out in a starkly lit police office. A giant framed collection of patched leans against the wall, while the officers lean on various bits of furniture and look forlorn

Meat and Potatoes Country: Nightmare at Noon (1988) on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2022

To an enormous extent, your enjoyment of (and even tolerance for) Nightmare at Noon will rely largely on how much affection you have for these actors, since they’re the beating heart of the film.

Past Presence

The title screen for the movie Gremlins. The word "Gremlins" is superimposed in red over the the snowy idyll of Kingston Falls, Pennsylvania.

Enter the Gremlins

By Emily Price • December 23rd, 2022

Emily’s (live) reactions to the movie, time stamped if you want to watch along.

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