Fright Club: Best Sound Design in Horror
Aside from maybe the musical, there is no genre in film more dependent on sound for audience response. From the creaks, groans and jangling chains of old fashioned haunted house…read more →
Alien
…And Let’s Give It Acid Blood!
Memory: The Origins of Alien by Hope Madden “The reek of human blood smiles out at me.” It’s an unusual opening line for a documentary about that icon of SciFi…read more →
Fright Club: Best SciFi Horror
Science Fiction and Horror are cousins—creepy, often slimy cousins. Cousins with pustules, often. There are so many utterly brilliant options to pick through that our omissions are bound to frustrate…read more →
Pretty Vacant
How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Hope Madden Oh, the fish out of water tale. What if X found itself in Y: a mermaid in New York City,…read more →
Shush!
A Quiet Place by Hope Madden Damn. So, John Krasinski. That big, tall guy, kind of doughy faced? Married to Emily Blunt? Dude can direct the shit out of a…read more →
Grasping for Resurrection
Alien: Covenant by Hope Madden and George Wolf “Do you want to serve in heaven or reign in hell?” That’s just one of the big, existential questions Alien: Covenant has…read more →
Life: It’s What’s for Dinner
Life by Matt Weiner Life comes at you fast. Real fast, when it’s a hyper-intelligent Martian lifeform hell-bent on survival. In Life, a seemingly unstoppable alien terrorizes the isolated crew…read more →
Fright Club: Best Final Girls
A staple of the horror genre – the final girl. She’s been beaten, tied up, duct taped, stabbed and generally misused, but she soldiers on. Whether through virtue, savvy, or…read more →
Fright Club: Best Creature Features
SciFi and horror don’t always play well together, but our one commonality will forever bridge the waters separating our nerdiness: creature features. For whatever reason, tales of oversized monsters, generally…read more →
Fright Club: Best Alien Horror Movies
Aliens tend to be very scary. Whether they’re sucking blood from some unsuspecting, love struck plant store employee or leaving crop circles out behind Mel Gibson’s barn, unleashing slugs who…read more →