Badass Digest Episode 28: The Future Of Horror
Devin assembles a roundtable of experts to discuss the direction of horror in a world where THE WALKING DEAD and EVIL DEAD bring gore to the masses.
Devin assembles a roundtable of experts to discuss the direction of horror in a world where THE WALKING DEAD and EVIL DEAD bring gore to the masses.
Join BC and live out your own slasher in the woods story this June.
A smart, original horror film that more than holds up on repeat viewing.
BC takes a look over the year's genre fare and names his faves.
A collection of creepy, spooky Windows 95 tips.
German horror comic Gespenster Geschichten had some damn incredible covers.
Every month we stop and appreciate a great badass still among the living. This month: Richard Matheson, possibly the most influential genre writer of the 20th century.
A list of the best licensed artworks, commissioned pieces, and personal projects in movie-based art.
Maybe now it’s Monster Television.
A weird ass horror movie trailer forces us to ponder who The Bunnyman is, and what he wants.
A weird ass horror movie trailer forces us to ponder who The Bunnyman is, and what he wants.
Tony Todd returns to the franchise in the new trailer for the August horror film!
Another look at the movie that finds Hitler using Victor Von Frankenstein’s notes to create an army of the dead!
A staggeringly disappointing and silly second half mars INSIDIOUS’ strong, scary first half.
Devin asks the director ‘Why remake SUSPIRIA?’
BAD’s Devil Week continues with a look at an obscure blaxploitation gem - the almost impossible to find William Girdler-directed zero budget EXORCIST riff, ABBY!
Lucky McKee’s new film, THE WOMAN, causes a huge stir at Sundance, including breaking one man’s very mind. We have the video.
Your next horror themed party won’t be complete until you’ve made a human head cake that melts under a heatlamp, revealing a royal icing skull.
Kanye West’s new album is incredible and it looks like he wants to make the video match the music in sheer greatness. The video for MONSTER is like a survey of modern horror imagery and tropes, and it’s awesome.
Holiday-themed horror movies were in vogue for a while there, but NEW YEAR’S EVIL is one of the few about December 31st. After watching it Brian Collins might have some idea why.
Before there was TWILIGHT there was DARK SHADOWS, the original inexplicably popular sexy vampire story. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are making a feature film out of the cult classic soap, but they’re telling the wrong tale. They shouldn’t be adapting DARK SHADOWS - they should be telling the behind the scenes story of DARK SHADOWS.
Yeah, CGI-splosions are kind of weak, but Henri’s down with shower montages. And it’s nice to know that these characters really do exist in a world that’s been overrun and aren’t just trapped near a decimated and quarantined Atlanta. The end of season one was as bumpy as the episodes that came before it, but it could still be a great prologue to a full season next year.
One episode left in the season and our sad little campers finally make it somewhere this week. Is it too little, too late? Meredith hopes not.
Almost entirely comprised of public domain titles, the Mill Creek packs have been a godsend over the past 3 (almost 4!) years, offering 50 movies per set, many of which are horror films that were produced during the years of the dreaded Production Code (and thus wouldn’t have any nudity or gore anyway).
Jim got a hickey on his tummy! The CDC has advanced doors and shower systems, but really, really dated video camera technology! Really, though, Henri thought it was a solid episode of zombie TV.
The second to last episode of the first season of THE WALKING DEAD has aired and Devin has seen it. What did he think? Most importantly - what do you think? Join the TV Talk in the comments!
Give us this day our daily trailer! On Black Friday turn your attention to the greatest tale of horror ever told about a shopping mall…
This week Brian examines HOME SWEET HOME, a Thanksgiving-set slasher starring none other than the guy from BODY BY JAKE as the killer.
Give us this day our daily trailer! In memory of the recently departed Hammer goddess Ingrid Pitt, let’s revisit one of her most famous films - COUNTESS DRACULA, where she plays an aging crone using the blood of young beauties to stay young!
New to the Giallo stylings of Italian master Dario Argento? Brian leads you through five films to get you up to date.
The director of the American version of the modern French horror classic assures us that his movie will have a much happier ending than the original.
With horror, the first is usually the best when it comes to sequels, but it applies to the current 3D craze as well. Since MY BLOODY VALENTINE debuted in early 2009 (long before the “game-changer” known as AVATAR), we’ve had a handful of horror films in 3D, and surprisingly, many of them were shot that way. SAW 3D, THE FINAL DESTINATION, and RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, like BLOODY, were shot with actual 3D cameras. The only two horror post-converts were MY SOUL TO TAKE and (ironically) PIRANHA 3D. Considering the glut of 3D films clogging the marketplace (over two dozen in 2010 between real and converts), that’s not a bad ratio. But should horror stick to 2D?
Give us this day our daily trailer. No, not the goddamned Rob Zombie version!
Today Deadline informed a stunned nation that Francis Ford Coppola has been hard at work shooting his next film, which nobody even knew existed. To be fair, very few people know that Coppola’s last couple of low budget, arty indie films existed either. But this film, called TWIXT NOW AND SUNRISE, could be a touch more mainstream than YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH or TETRO.
The first PARANORMAL ACTIVITY was made for no money. Paramount bought it with the intention of remaking it, and it sat on a shelf for years. When it was finally released it was a huge hit; the studio rushed a sequel into production so that it could have another one in theaters just a year later. How did that work out?
One of the most underrated modern great trash films played at the New Beverly Cinema this past week, and the screenwriter, producer and star came by for a Q&A. We have the video of the entire thing. Watch and celebrate that truly weird movies still get made!
Black Francis is one cool guy. I mean, he’d earn that just from his time with The Pixies, one of the greatest bands of all time, but he doubly earns it by doing cool stuff like writing a score for the silent horror classic Der Golem and then releasing it free on the internet.
Once upon a time zombies were featured in semi-underground, unrated movies that only the die hards saw. Now they’re being used to sell clothes at Sears.
Sears has a ‘zombified’ version of their website up right now (for Halloween) and it’s actually pretty cool, to be honest. I mean, sure, zombies have lost all their bite once Sears - SEARS! - is rebranding their website with the shuffling undead in mind, but they did a good job. And maybe the argument to be made here isn’t that our beloved cannibal dead have been coopted by the system but rather that the system has been devoured by the unliving.
There are bad movies and then there are movies that leave you crying ‘Make It Stop!’ First up: Stephen King’s directorial debut, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.
Greg Nicotero’s United Monster Talent Agency played to great success at Fantastic Fest this year, and now the short is online for you, the home viewer, to home view!
The premise is simple: a Movietone newsreel from the Golden Age of Hollywood (read: Universal) monsters reveals that Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man and Gillman are all actual beasts - and they’re all repped by the United Monster Talent Agency. It’s a fun, winking homage to some of the greatest creatures to ever grace the screen, and it’s filled with terrific Nicotero takes on the most famous monsters of all time.
What’s scarier - the Whitney Houston song or the freakish lip syncher? Who am I kidding, it’s the lip syncher, hands down. Yikes.
If you could stop groaning about M. Night for one minute Devin can explain to you why DEVIL is worth seeing.