MOVIES MADE ME

  A few years ago, I decided to write a followup to my 2004 book Nightmares in Red, White and Blue , a cultural study of A...

A few months ago, I published an article on Wes Craven's 1986 film Deadly Friend in an online horror journal.  As far as I can tell, th...

Horror movie fans are sharpening their knives this week, in anticipation of SCREAM 4. Uncle Lancifer over at Kindertrauma does a good j...

Wes Craven has said that his earliest filmmaking influences were not horror movies but European art-house cinema: Antonioni, Bergman, Bunuel...

I have a confession to make. The first time I encountered Freddy Krueger, it wasn’t in the film A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. It was in a chi...

This weekend, we took a roundabout way to Palm Springs. “Roundabout way” means (for me) taking frequent detours to check out some familiar ...

A little over a month ago, I saw a new documentary on the making of the classic horror film Halloween . “Halloween: 25 Years of Terror,” dis...