horror
Video: How Carl Dreyer Created a ‘Cinematic Uncanny’
Investigating one of the creepiest films of all time, with insights inspired by one of the world’s leading film scholars.
The Film 100: Lon Chaney, no. 24
The child of deaf-mute parents, Chaney learned to master the art of pantomime and became a legendary chameleon known best as ‘the man of a thousand faces.’
The Film 100: Roger Corman, no. 49
Corman’s mastery of the low-budget production has had a tremendous impact on independent filmmakers, documentarians and studios alike.
Sundance: Eight to Anticipate
As the typical Sundance ‘success’ has moved from the art house to the Oscars, the festival garners a whole new kind of attention.
The Film 100: Georges Méliès, no. 26
Méliès’ need to explore his dreams through the art of filmmaking is the fundamental force that today drives such visionary directors as Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg.
The Film 100: Alfred Hitchcock, no. 6
Hitchcock’s uncommon talent, it seems, was his ability to compel onlookers to project themselves into the shoes of the bumbling innocents he engulfed in sinister situations.
Video: The Power of Padding in First Films by John Carpenter and Monte Hellman
Scenes built specifically to ‘fill time’ for theatrical release offer a surprise peek at the auteurist genius of John Carpenter and Monte Hellman.
Video: Modern Underground Horror Awaits
Looking back at Damon Packard’s DAWN OF AN EVIL MILLENNIUM, the horror ‘trailer’ reads like a prescient manifesto on what shape horror’s second century mutations should take.
Video: Return of the Classic Zombie Movie
The blank-eyed stare, the slow walk, the curse, the rot: The greatest zombie movies have something both inhuman and superhuman to teach us.
FRANKENWEENIE Warning: Films Within Films May Bring on Monstrous Results
On Frankensteins: Reconstitute, rinse, repeat? Tim Burton offers notes on how not to refresh a seasonal favorite.
The Art of Filmmaking: William Friedkin
KILLER JOE, the latest from 77-year-old movie legend William Friedkin, looks like the brazen, energetic work of a young director having too much fun. A candid interview with the director finds Friedkin in top fighting form.
Horror Down Under
Australian horror films span the horror genre, from telekinetic to vampiristic to black comedic to just plain peculiar.
