The Legend of La Llorona is yet another dive into the folk-horror tale of La Llorona, or The Weeping Woman. A ghostly figure who weeps and wails as she seeks her dead baby (or babies, depending on the story and region), La Llorona has become a very familiar character in horror lore in recent years. [...]

For the uninitiated Goosebumps was a series of children's horror books that were popular in the 90s that spawned a TV series and more recently a movie starring Jack Black. While certain episodes could be surprising and indeed frightening to a young audience, to adults they are just spooky kids' horror that is often comical [...]

The thing about the horror genre is, it's hard to feel tension and peril if you really don't like any of the characters and don't find the antagonist (whether it's a slasher or an environment or the inside of someone's mind) interesting. They're Outside starts with some potential. It's a framed found-footage film. At the [...]

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 [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Folk Horror derives its roots from folklore - cryptids, oral traditions, and ancient folktales. In the 1960s, folk horror suddenly hit its stride as a crucial part of horror film history, particularly as films from Britain were making their mark all over the world. As television became the [...]