Scare Package

Horror-comedy anthology pays tribute to the golden age of VHS

"...a tribute to the golden era of low-grade VHS horror and a comedy about the inherent nerdiness of VHS..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Black Christmas

Redo of horror classic rejects subtext for political message

"...tricky film for some to read. The history of horror can also be seen as the history of subversion;..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Greta

Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler

"...thought underpinning the film’s outrageous acts. Like a B horror movie in which we know the group shouldn’t drive..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boy Erased

Joel Edgerton goes to gay conversion therapy's heart of darkness

"...on contemporary social issues, often in the form or horror films. The Purge movies and Get Out are two..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director. His award-winning 1993 feature debut Cronos, an..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

The Grudge

A new haunting from the J-horror franchise

"...you’re looking for the dead bodies of abandoned studio horrors, January is the ultimate dumping ground. The last few..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

God Help Us

Austinite Stephen Romano's psychotic collaboration with Don Coscarelli launches Showtime's 'Masters of Horror' series

"...own accord, breeze or no. Inside, it's wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling horror-movie madness: one-sheets, stickers, props, vertiginous stacks of dusty VHS..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

May

"...mayhem takes over, May is a spunky little low-budget horror movie that knows its antecedents and conventions and tries..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Urban Legends: Final Cut

"...was perhaps not the world's biggest fan of the horror film genre, based on my less-than-rapturous review of The..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Five Nights at Freddy's

Horror game adaptation is just teen-friendly fan service

"...the 2014 smash hit game known for its creepy horror atmosphere, extensive lore, and jump scares, has finally made..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

The Boogeyman

Can Hollywood just knock it off with the trauma horror?

"...favorite and made Savage a rising star in the horror community. Years later, Savage has been given an actual..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Slash/Back

Smart Canadian horror sets Indigenous teens against alien invaders

"...remains the case with the current wave of international horror cinema. This mode of culturally specific storytelling on page..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Don't Look at the Demon

Malaysia-set horror film employs skill and style to scare

"...With the explosion of international horror over the past two decades, audiences have their ears..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Blood Fest

Comedy-horror provides plenty of GIF-able gags

"...Blood Fest is the name of a Renaissance-faire-style horror festival – a secluded, outdoor gathering for the world’s..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Cabin in the Woods

Cabin in the Woods is the most intoxicating morsel to hit the horror circuit since Scream or, at least, Paranormal Activity.

"...who hail it as the second coming of the horror picture, and scale it up from the opinions of..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

Tracing horror's evolution from the camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman to the post-countercultural killing fields of The Last House on the Left and on

"...Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horrorby Jason Zinoman Penguin, 272 pp., $25.95..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Ruins

Four friends on a Mexican vacation discover something evil among the Mayan ruins.

"...Machen's theosophistic bent with his own brand of cosmic horror, ran with it, all the way to the Arkham..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When a Stranger Calls

Simon West’s do-over of Fred Walton’s 1979 creepfest – in which babysitter Belle menaced by a stranger with a phone who probably isn’t that guy from Verizon – is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.

"...masturbatory tedium. I’d have given up entirely on American horror as a viable genre years ago if it weren’t..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A History of Violence

Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?

"...Holmes. Throughout his career as a director of high-minded horror films, David Cronenberg has focused on the linkage between..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

They See Dead People, Too

The story of a young blind woman who undergoes a corneal transplant and begins to see visions of the dead, The Eye may sound familiar to fans of The Sixth Sense, but the Pangs' film is a far more creepy affair than M. Night Shyamalan's crowd-pleaser.

"...finally begin catching up on all the import Asian horror films that Pedazo Chunk video specializes in, something I'd..."

June 27, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Return of the Revenge of the Final Girl in Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge

Zoe Graham and the new rules of horror in Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge

"...at the end of Scare Package, the Austin-made anthology horror-comedy set in the world of VHS chills and silliness...."

Dec. 30, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

ATX TV Festival 2022: Queer for Fear

New Shudder series gives queer audiences a genre to call their own

"...panel on Queer for Fear, the upcoming docuseries from horror streamer Shudder, was an event for queer people, by..."

June 4, 2022 Screens Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood

Slender Man

Creepypasta's most iconic creature hits the big screen

"...Slender Man. The defining monster of the online story-swapping horror phenomenon Creepypasta, he's the child-snatching shadow in the corner,..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...deep, but they are far from lovely. In Irish horror The Hallow, they are the wild places, the ancient..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...of the miserable weather to look through some recent horror releases...."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil Inside

A woman tries to determine whether her incarcerated mother is criminally insane or demonically possessed.

"...like this one. It's not just a dull, witless, horror film, it's also an incredibly lazy one, the kind..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slither

Writer-director James Gunn knows what makes horror fans howl, and is one heck of a writer to boot.

"...Henry and Tanya Saulnier. James Gunn knows what makes horror fans howl – both in delighted repulsion and, just..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Tale of Two Sisters

Dread and mystery are the hallmarks of this South Korean psychological thriller.

"...South Korean psychological thriller than in all the American horror films of the past 10 years. Let’s face it,..."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Halloween at the Movies

Your ultimate guide to spooky season screenings in Austin

"...Halloween and horror movies go together like eyes of newt and toes..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge

Horror-comedy anthology has a mild case of sequelitis

"...Rad Chad's Revenge, the delightfully chaotic sequel to 2020's horror-comedy anthology side-splitter Scare Package, answers those questions in a..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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