Tough Films For The Rough Crowd

    A director’s statement for Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary has been released via Rue Morgue. The video features original music by legendary horror composer Simon Boswell (HARDWARE, Clive Barker’s LORD OF ILLUSIONS), who has also been announced as an interviewee. Watch the video: Also announced by Rue…

  Last year’s Chattanooga Film Festival was a glimmer of hope in the middle of a pandemic summer. It was an incredible online festival experience that truly emulated the sense of community that arises when we’re all together. Thankfully, it’s back this year, and the festival has announced its full…

It’s time for me to make a concession that’s probably going to result in my losing some major horror cred, but, I’m tired of hiding. I’ve long thought of myself as someone who’s unashamed of the stuff I’m interested in, and have encouraged others to have the same attitude, so…

For a generation of film lovers, the word “Blockbuster” is something of a litmus test. For roughly half the population of the United States, it conjures up nothing but the happiest of memories– neon blue-and-yellow decor as far as the eye can see illuminating many an idyllic childhood Friday night,…

The mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 shocked and horrified the people of the United States. Promises were made to stop it from ever happening again, to keep our kids safe. In the time since that horrible day, there have been more than 230 school shootings…

    Franchises have been synonymous with the horror genre for nearly a century now. Universal lit the torch with its stable of iconic monsters, and it’s been passed down through the ages to series that have endured for decades, their numerous sequels stretching across multiple generations. So the fact…

  In 1996, the Resident Evil series had its first of many iconic moments: zombie dogs jumping through the window to attack the player. This started a design philosophy that would become a core pillar of the franchise for 25 years: the concept of temporary safety. Your first lesson: you…

  Troma — you know them, you love them, perhaps hate them, but cannot ignore them. They’re a legendary exploitation film production company that has launched the likes of cult classic monster icon The Toxic Avenger and creator of the upcoming SUICIDE SQUAD reboot James Gunn through the watchful, batshit-crazy…

From the moment of its release on the first PlayStation console on March 22nd, 1996, RESIDENT EVIL had been stirring the imaginations of its many players, making them wonder just how they planned to adapt the gripping survival horror saga to the screen so that audiences who didn’t dig into…

  Welcome to the Daily Grindhouse Bizarro Oscars. This is our way of celebrating less conventional aspects of popular films, but even better, to spotlight those films we love that most definitely won’t be recognized at the “real” Academy Awards tonight.   This is the Somethingth Annual Bizarros — an…

As someone who’s been writing about movies for almost a decade now, I’m often asked what’s the worst film I’ve ever seen. The question isn’t necessarily asked to get my honest opinion: The pastime of watching bad movies is so widespread now, and so many even casual filmgoers have an…

  We don’t often get the time to run news at DG, but occasionally it’s time to make time. As if Salem Horror Fest wasn’t already doing enough important work, here comes the news of this partnership with the George A. Romero Foundation to support the development of indy filmmakers….

    Directed by Rodney Ascher and David Lawrence from VHS footage shot by Ryan Sexton, THE EL DUCE TAPES is a well put together documentary about an insufferable “rape-rock” musician. The man’s name, as you might guess, is El Duce (real name Eldon Hoke). During a short time in…

  There’s a whole lot of strange business right up from the very start of THE STUNT MAN, Richard Rush’s brash, bawdy, throroughly virtuosic “lost film” from 1980. It begins with the image of a buzzard, which literally comes to life off the title logo, swooping down to a busy road,…

  If you’re in the market for some punk witches and vampire bikers — and really, who isn’t? — Vault Comics has the book for you. WITCHBLOOD is a neon- and blood-soaked saga that is equal parts BIRDS OF PREY, NEAR DARK, and a mixtape from your friend who used…

  Comics are a medium uniquely suited to stories that terrify, shock, disturb, and disgust, and as such I’m thrilled to bring regular comics coverage back to Daily Grindhouse. I’m a lifelong horror fan who became obsessed with comic books in college, so a horror comics column is a dream…

    We can all agree that giant monster fights are some of the best cinematic moments to grace the big screen. Whether it’s mechs fighting creatures from the ocean’s depth a la PACIFIC RIM, or watching the King Of The Monsters himself wiping out creatures from land, sea, and…

    With GODZILLA VS. KONG arriving this week, we thought it was important to finally answer a question that maybe nobody has been asking. What makes an individual a “kaiju?” First: What is a kaiju? So… again: What makes an individual a “kaiju?” Is it just their height?  …

  Boogeymen have haunted horror since time immemorial. They’re perhaps our most elemental fiends: shadowy, malleable “others” hailing from the nether-reaches of our unconscious, avatars giving form to our most inexplicable fears. Their elusiveness makes them frightening and compelling in equal measure: a boogeyman exists in the space between fact…

For a long time, cult films were those that weren’t initially successful, financially and/or critically, but which, over time, time naturally attracted audiences that loved the misfit movie without any coaxing by studios, influencers, or the like. While every filmmaker would love to have a group of devotees praising their…

    Folk horror is one of the most nebulous subgenres in horror. While modern folk horror like THE WITCH and MIDSOMMAR wear the moniker on their sleeve, there are dozens if not hundreds of films throughout the history of horror that have been discussed or labeled as such retroactively…

It’s a foregone conclusion that we’ll be inundated with COVID-19 media for, at minimum, the next five to ten years. How could we not? It’s the worst pandemic that many of us have seen in our lifetimes; a swath of ongoing death and the growing fanaticism and death cults that…

There were a lot of conversations/debates about subverting expectations when THE LAST JEDI came out—some praised the sequel for taking bold strides while others were frustrated by its anticlimactic curveballs. PAUL DOOD’S DEADLY LUNCH BREAK is built on subversion, finding new ways to zig at every opportunity to zag. The…

   One of the best things about SXSW Online 2021– and all previous SXSW Film Festivals– is that it puts human faces on issues the audience may not necessarily know about. Reading statistics, seeing the names of the dead, footage of the aftermath—these acts all inform people but do very…