‘He has your keys’ The Super is a 2017 American horror thriller feature film directed by Stephan Rick (The Dark Side of the Moon) from a screenplay by John J. McLaughlin (Hitchcock; Black Swan). The movie stars Patrick John Flueger, Val… Read More ›
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Wildling – USA, 2018
Wildling is a 2018 American horror feature film directed by Fritz Böhm from a screenplay co-written with Florian Eder. It stars Liv Tyler, Brad Dourif and Bel Powley. Anna (Bel Powley) spends her entire childhood under the care of a mysterious man she only… Read More ›
Theater of Horror – USA, 2017
Theater of Horror is a 2017 American horror film directed by Will Collazo Jr. from a screenplay co-written with Lauren Marotta. It stars Caridad Rivera, Angie Hansen and Carl J Grasso. The film is currently in post-production. Filming locations: Under St. Mark’s Theater,… Read More ›
Central Park – USA, 2017
‘We came together, we leave together.’ Central Park is a 2017 American horror slasher film written and directed by actor Justin Reinsilber, making his directorial debut. The Feast and Bourbon Films production stars Grace Van Patten, Marina Squerciati and Ruby Modine. Six… Read More ›
Ascent to Hell – USA, 2014
Ascent to Hell is a 2014 American horror film directed by Dena Hysell (The Tribe; The App) from a screenplay by Golan Ramraz, based on Hysell and Isak Borg’s storyline. New York, present day. Kate Carpenter specializes in selling artist lofts, but when a… Read More ›
Rats – documentary, USA, 2016
‘Invading this October’ Rats is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Morgan Spurlocks (Freakonomics; Super Size Me). The film is based on the book by Robert Sullivan titled Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants…. Read More ›
Slime City – USA, 1988
‘A horror film with guts’ Slime City is a 1988 American comedy-horror splatter film written and directed by Greg Lamberson (Killer Rack; Dry Bones). The Psychotronic Video Guide has suggested that the budget was $50,000. The film stars Robert Sabin (Naked Fear;… Read More ›
Manhattan Baby – Italy, 1982
‘A soul engulfed by evil!’ Manhattan Baby is a 1982 Italian supernatural horror feature film directed by Lucio Fulci from a screenplay by Elisa Briganti and Dardano Sacchetti. The film’s original Italian title is L’occhio del male [“The Evil Eye”]. It was retitled Possessed in the… Read More ›
Street Trash – USA, 1987
‘Prepare for a molten hobo holocaust’ Street Trash is a 1987 American body horror exploitation feature film directed by J. Michael Muro (credited as Jim Muro), based on his short student film of the same name. Roy Frumkes (Diary of the… Read More ›
Maniac – USA, 1980
‘Run from this man!’ Maniac is a 1980 American slasher horror feature film co-produced and directed by William Lustig (Maniac Cop and sequels; Uncle Sam) from a screenplay by actor Joe Spinell (who also stars as the titular character), and C…. Read More ›
Shrunken Heads – USA, 1994
Shrunken Heads is a 1994 American film directed by Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone; Modern Vampires) from a screenplay by Matthew Bright. The movie is Full Moon Entertainment’s first theatrical feature, and the last production in which Julius Harris (Live and Let Die; King Kong… Read More ›
Necropolis – USA, 1986
‘Where they love New York to death.’ Necropolis – aka Necropolis: City of the Dead – is a 1986 supernatural American horror film written and directed by Bruce Hickey. Special effects were provided by Ed French (Nightmare; Blood Rage). Cast: LeeAnne Baker… Read More ›
Discopath – Canada, 2013
‘Disco isn’t dead, but you just might be’ Discopath is a 2013 Canadian comedy horror feature film directed by Renaud Gauthier, and starring Jérémie Earp-Lavergne, Sandrine Bisson, and Ivan Freud. In the mid-1970s, Duane Lewis is a man who transforms into a… Read More ›
Horrorcore: How Hip Hop Met Horror – article
Horrorcore is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from hardcore and gangsta rap artists such as the Geto Boys and Insane Clown Posse, who brought the genre into the mainstream,… Read More ›
Devoured – USA, 2012
‘You will be’ Devoured is a 2012 American horror movie directed by Greg Olliver – his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere on May 6, 2012 at the Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival and stars Marta Milans, Kara Jackson and… Read More ›
Rosemary’s Baby – novel by Ira Levin, 1967
Rosemary’s Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin (The Stepford Wives; Dr. Cook’s Garden; The Boys from Brazil; Son of Rosemary), his second published book. The Random House book sold over four million copies “making it the top bestselling horror novel… Read More ›
Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Paris – location
Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol [“The Theatre of the Big Puppet”] – known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, the… Read More ›
King Kong – USA, 1933
King Kong is a 1933 American fantasy monster/adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack for RKO. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar… Read More ›
The Refrigerator – USA, 1991
The Refrigerator is a 1991 American comedy horror film starring Julia McNeal, Dave Simonds and Angel Caban. It was written and directed by Nicholas Jacobs. Plot teaser: A couple drive drunkenly across the streets of New York to their squalid apartment…. Read More ›
The Driller Killer – USA, 1979
‘The blood runs in rivers… …and the drill keeps tearing through flesh and bone’ The Driller Killer is a 1979 American horror feature film directed by, and starring Abel Ferrara. The film was lumped together with other so-called ‘video nasties‘ released at the… Read More ›
Sukia – Italian comic book
Sukia is a vampire-themed Italian fumetti comics series by Renzo Barbieri and Fulvio Bosttoli published by Edifumetto from 1978 to 1986 over 153 issues. In the series Sukia faces people or creatures who are trying to do some form of harm to the world or other. Sukia is displayed as… Read More ›
The Colossus of New York – USA, 1958
The Colossus of New York is a 1958 American science fiction film produced by William Alland (Tarantula, Creature From the Black Lagoon), and directed by Eugène Lourié (The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Gorgo). It stars John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, and Robert Hutton…. Read More ›
The Bloody Ape – USA, 1997
The Bloody Ape is a 1997 micro budget American comedy horror exploitation film produced and directed by Keith J. Crocker from a screenplay co-written with George R. Reis. It stars the latter and Paul V. Richichi, Larry Coster, Arlene Hansen and… Read More ›
Angel Heart – USA, 1987
Angel Heart is a 1987 American psychological horror film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. It also contains elements of film noir and hard-boiled detective stories. The film is adapted from… Read More ›
Cropsey (2009)
‘the truth is terrifying’ Cropsey is a 2009 American investigative-crime horror-documentary film, written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The film and its title uses the urban legend of “Cropsey”, akin to the various incarnations of the Boogeyman,… Read More ›
Black Swan – USA, 2010
Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, and Mila Kunis. The plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky‘s Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The… Read More ›
Ghost Story – USA, 1981
‘The time has come to tell the tale.’ Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatual horror film directed by John Irvin based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Straub. It stars Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks,… Read More ›
House of Wax – USA, 1953
House of Wax is a 1953 American horror film starring Vincent Price and is largely responsible for him becoming a horror icon. It is a remake of Warners’ Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) without the comic relief featured in the earlier film, and was directed by André de… Read More ›
Lady in White (1988)
‘He witnessed the murder. Then he met the victim.’ Lady in White is a 1988 American supernatural horror film. The movie is based on the story of The Lady in White who supposedly searches for her daughter in Durand-Eastman Park in Rochester,… Read More ›
Rosemary’s Baby – USA, 1968
Rosemary’s Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel by Ira Levin (The Stepford Wives). The cast includes Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, Sidney Blackmer and Charles Grodin. It was produced by William Castle (director of House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler)…. Read More ›
Breeders – USA, 1986
‘ … they must be stopped!’ Breeders is a 1986 American science fiction horror film written and directed by Tim Kincaid [aka Joe Gage] (Robot Holocaust; Mutant Hunt; She’s Back aka Dead & Married). The film was shot in ten days for approximately… Read More ›
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms – USA, 1953
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 American science fiction monster film directed by Eugène Lourié (The Colossus of New York; The Giant Behemoth; Gorgo) from a screenplay by Lou Morheim and Fred Freiberger, based on Ray Bradbury‘s story ‘The Foghorn’. Lourié also served as… Read More ›
Cloverfield – USA, 2008
Cloverfield is a 2008 American found-footage style monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard. Before settling on an official title, the film was marketed as 1-18-08. The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night… Read More ›