If we stop for a moment to think outside of our own lives, whether your food wasn't made how you requested it at the restaurant or that your coworker's slacking is making your day more difficult, there are people whose lives are a living horror movie. It is easy to get wrapped up in our [...]

It is rarely spoken in a positive sense when people say “it has everything and the kitchen sink” when talking about movies. Much in the same way a movie with too many tones can give audiences a feeling of emotional whiplash, there are sensations and visuals that cannot be excessive for the sake of cohesion. Malignant puts [...]

When being a first-time filmmaker there is nearly constant pressure to make your project ambitious as to stand out in the crowd. It has to be the most clever, the most interesting, and the most unique if it ever has a chance of being noticed by a studio. What that tends to lead to though [...]

Subtle horror is the subgenre that can haunt the adults in the audience in the same way that outward horror movies scare the young and inexperienced. The difficulties with these films though is with little happening the audience needs to be given something to keep their interest. This can be characters or an interesting location [...]

Within the genre, horror has always reveled in revealing the uncomfortable truths to its audience and unexpecting first timers. If horror has always been built on a foundation of shocking and horrifying the viewers, few things do that as effectively as the reality of the world. Sometimes this can be through the minimal realities that [...]

Much in the same way a trapeze artist must balance during their act or become quickly familiar with the ground, films have to balance tone if they are going to try multiple moods or risk falling flat. Of the possible genres you can mash together, adding comedy is difficult but making a comedy horror has [...]

There are many things to be frightened by in the horror genre, in the same way, that there are many ways to frighten the audience with a horror film. One way that has been slowly but surely returning to the genre after a hiatus is slow dread-inducing horror. Alfred Hitchcock said “There is a distinct [...]