In a fascinating conversation, author Alix Kingray sits down with award-winning editors Daysha Broadway, ACE, and Jon Higgins, ACE, to discuss their dynamic work on Your Monster, a film that artfully combines romantic comedy with horror. The duo shares insights on balancing these seemingly disparate genres, crediting the film's tonal shifts to the performances, Caroline [...]

I recently connected with acclaimed horror editor/producer Josh Ethier, ACE, who most recently cut together Adam Schindler and Brian Netto's Netflix horror-thriller Don't Move. The film follows a woman named Iris, who must fight for her life after a killer injects her with a paralytic agent. As her body begins to shut down, the stakes [...]

Natalie Erika James made a name for herself with the stellar, slow-burn horror movie Relic from 2020. Her latest feature, Apartment 7A, is a prequel to Rosemary’s Baby. While crafting a prequel to Ira Levin’s novel and Roman Polanski’s influential adaptation would seem like an insurmountable task, James, and her co-writers, Christian White and Skylar [...]

Stuart Ortiz made a name for himself in the horror genre with the Grave Encounters found footage films. His latest work, Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, uses a faux documentary story to detail brutal and grisly murders, committed by a mysterious killer named Mr. Shiny. While the film certainly has shock value, as [...]

The newest Blumhouse film AfrAId shows how easily AI can go from being a family’s biggest blessing to its most lethal enemy. AfrAId follows Curtis (John Cho) and his family, who are selected to try out AIA, an experimental AI home assistant installed in their home. After AIA is installed, “she” rapidly learns about the family’s routine and [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2024 -Remakes can be tough to get right. Witchboard, directed by Chuck Russell (Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob, The Mask), is a wildly inventive reimagining of the 1980s franchise. The film, which heralds Russell’s return to the horror genre, contains some gnarly practical effects and a bedeviling [...]

What do the horror titles Deadbolt, SurrealEstate, Slasher and Motherly all have in common? Composer Spencer Creaghan. While Spencer doesn’t solely work in horror, some of his other titles include Terry’s Car Gets Stolen & Quickening, he has definitely perfected his craft nicely for the genre. His latest film is the Tubi slasher, Killer Body [...]