As the horror genre becomes ever more mainstream, we here at The A.V. Club imagine that there are more of you than ever looking for something creepy to watch this Halloween season. And with streaming services on a similar upward cultural trajectory, we’re guessing that many, if not most, of you won’t be watching that…
It still feels way too early to be sipping Pumpkin Spice Lattes and wearing cozy sweaters outside, but it’s never too early to turn of all the lights, close the curtains, and spend a few days watching an endless marathon of horror movies. The cable networks have mostly backed away from their old month-long Halloween…
Joe Bob Briggs, horror’s resident good ol’ boy, literally broke streaming service Shudder when he commandeered the platform earlier this month for a live B-movie marathon. It was supposed to be a one-off appearance, but Shudder has announced that the former host of Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater and MonsterVision will be…
It’s no seven Robin Hoods in development at once, but Hollywood is piling on the horror anthology series like bloodthirsty creatures on a fresh corpse. It seems as though only Tales From The Crypt remains in its grave at this point: Jordan Peele is developing a new iteration of The Twilight Zone for CBS, Guillermo del…
Fans of Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater and MonsterVision, take heart. Your beloved host, Joe Bob Briggs, is back for one more go-round—sitting in an easy chair, drinking a beer, and playing host to some delightfully trashy B-movies. Get ready for one last weekend of entertaining discussion and films of questionable taste.
Welcome to Stream And Stream Again, a monthly column highlighting films and TV series new to streaming catalogs that are of special interest to The A.V. Club’s staff—and hopefully to you, our readers. Here are five new titles streaming this May.
Welcome to Stream And Stream Again, a monthly column highlighting films and TV series new to streaming catalogs that are of special interest to The A.V. Club’s staff—and hopefully to you, our readers. Here are five new titles streaming this April.
Mary Harron didn’t start her career as a film director until her 40s, after a wild and fascinating early life that included a stint as one of the first writers of Punk magazine and a brief romance with future British Prime Minister Tony Blair when the two were students at Oxford. And she hit the proverbial ground…
Following its premiere at last year’s Fantastic Fest, where we called it “a melancholy, ’70s-set lesbian romance/Gothic horror tale featuring a blond, a brunette, and a mad aunt locked away in her Victorian house,” A.D. Calvo’s atmospheric ghost story Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is becoming accessible to a wider audience…
Next to Orson Welles’ 1938 radio play of The War Of The Worlds, The BBC’s presentation of Ghostwatch is probably one of the best-known media-induced panics in broadcasting history. (And possibly more effective, as historians have recently concluded that the bedlam surrounding Welles’ broadcast was exaggerated by…
For years, an uncut version of Ken Russell’s delirious, provocative 1971 witchcraft drama The Devils has been a movie lover’s Holy Grail (no pun intended) on the level of Orson Welles’ unfinished later works. Well, cinematic miracles do happen, and the day after Netflix announced it was restoring Welles’ unfinished,…
Movies pitting two popular horror franchises (villains, whatever) against each other have been done before. But Sadako Vs. Kayako, a supernatural teen horror movie co-produced by Universal and Kadokawa Pictures, is Japan’s first crack at the phenomenon outside of kaiju movies. For those who have only seen the American…
With Halloween falling on a Monday this year, only the most hardcore revelers, and those of us with little monsters to take trick-or-treating, will be strapping on yet another costume and heading out into the night on All Hallow’s Eve proper. As for us, we’ll be turning off our porch lights, curling up with that big…
The A.V. Club is quite happy with the new French TV miniseries Beyond The Walls, giving it an A- and saying that it’s “a superlative example of open-ended and imaginative storytelling that nonetheless moves at an efficient and captivating pace.” It’s also a good reason to sign up for Shudder, the horror-based…
Lots of streaming services have some horror offerings, but they’re usually limited to recent stuff that wasn’t very successful or older titles that even the people starring in them never heard of. Thankfully, though, there’s the AMC-backed Shudder service, which is completely dedicated to movies that are spooky and/or…
Back in February, we told you about Shudder Labs, a new program from the horror-specific streaming service—which is still quite new itself, having launched last summer—designed to help up-and-coming horror filmmakers launch their careers by introducing them to mentors with experience serving in the horror trenches.…
With a large, passionate fan base and a history littered with examples of low-budget features that spawned massive multi-decade franchises, horror is one of the easier genres for an aspiring filmmaker to break into. That doesn’t mean that the future Carpenters and Cravens of the world couldn’t use a little…
No matter how terrible a year is, we can usually count on AMC’s Fear Fest marathons to ease us into the home stretch of the fall with some reliable scares. It has leaned a little hard on the Halloween series lately, but that’s like saying a soda store leans too hard on Coca-Cola. It’s just what you’ve gotta put up…
