In the world of horror if there is a family moving into a house that has a reasonable price range, it is guaranteed to have a seeded past and or be haunted. The cornerstone of this film trope is to watch how the horror seeps in and slowly begins the whittle down the groups trust [...]

Of all the horror sub-genres out there one that has to be the absolute hardest to nail down in a coherent or successful way would be dream-like horror. When people discuss their nightmares most of the horror comes from a perfect mix of disturbing visuals/ scenarios and the nonsensical dream logic. What makes it scary [...]

Anxiety, for the many people that experience it, is a disorder that is hard to explain let alone capture on film. In a thriller, the audience can be put on the edge of their seats with stressful situations and high stakes, but anxiety is a different beast entirely. It is a boiling below the surface [...]

In any movie that brags about a body count, there is bound to be a plethora of underdeveloped characters. Such has become a staple of the slasher genre, when our killer needs to slash his way through victim after victim we're hardly going to get the time to know all of them. This has become [...]

People's passions are something that are so unique to each individual and so fascinating to trace back especially when they have surprising origins. For some, it is something that caught their attention from a young age whether it was art or space, and these are passions fostered through years of love. Others have an experience [...]

As time goes on it feels like creators are struggling more and more to tell an original story, or at least avoid direct scene comparisons to other films. Considering that the medium of film has been around since the 20th century it is easy to make a case that everything has already done but it [...]

If there is a debate that will rage on in every medium, for all time, it will be "How much of an effect does a bad ending have on a project as a whole?" How bad does the ending have to be before it undoes all of the good the film has set up and [...]