Bad Influence
Shook by Hope Madden People really hate social media influencers. I mean, somebody must love them or who is it they influence? But horror definitely does not love them. Influencers…read more →
Shook by Hope Madden People really hate social media influencers. I mean, somebody must love them or who is it they influence? But horror definitely does not love them. Influencers…read more →
The Queen of Black Magic by Hope Madden Filmmaker Kimo Stamboel resurrects 70s exploitation horror with The Queen of Black Magic. Not a remake or really a sequel or reboot…read more →
Hunted by Hope Madden It’s hard to tell a new story. People have been telling stories since the beginning of people, and eventually – probably millennia ago – we realized…read more →
Porno by Hope Madden Have you seen Lamberto Bava’s 1985 horror Demons? I can’t help but wonder if writers Matt Black and Laurence Vannicelli have. It’s a low rent affair…read more →
32 Malasaña Street by Hope Madden What is it about haunted houses that always sucker in big families? We saw it in The Conjuring and The Amityville Horror before it.…read more →
The Cleansing Hour by Hope Madden Almost a decade ago, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz locked a couple of fraudulent online “ghost hunters” inside an abandoned hospital in the entertaining…read more →
Scare Me by Hope Madden Writer’s block—it is a common theme in all writing, especially horror. Think about The Shining, for example. Fred (writer/director/star Josh Ruben) certainly is. And at…read more →
Spiral by Hope Madden How many films, horror or otherwise, open as a moving van leaves a fresh faced family unpacking in their new dream home? Kurtis David Harder and…read more →
La Llorona by Hope Madden Another timely Shudder original plays upon the madness that can creep into a period of lockdown. The righteous anger of a population, the chanting and…read more →
Host by Hope Madden It was bound to happen, and no doubt the inanely titled Host is the first in a succession of films to tap into quarantine and pandemic…read more →