The chief of the four horsemen, the pale rider Death, finally galloped into town last night on Supernatural. You can be sure with the season winding down and the apocalypse on the way that Hell is surely following with him. While some other notable genre shows are taking their sweet time stirring up Armageddon, the [...]

If you are a horror fan, you probably already know the pleasures to be found in Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero’s outbreak thriller [REC]. The Spanish-language film took the concept of a zombie infection, ran it through the lens of a first-person, hand-held camera perspective, and then unleashed a ghoulish parade of prickly, low-budget thrills. [...]

Breck Eisner’s The Crazies is a movie unashamed of what it is; a zombie-centric gallery of jump-scares and gore moments. There’s the quaint little town where things start to go horribly wrong, the erstwhile sheriff who wrings his hands with each new terrible discovery, and of course, an endless number of scenes where characters wander [...]

Horror comedy enthusiasts, behold! First your patron saint Raimi returns with Drag Me to Hell, and now Norwegian Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow comes shambling onto DVD to revive the slap-stick scare routine of the incomparable Evil Dead 2. And for anyone with a zombie fetish or just a plain weird sense of humor (or both), the film’s ’big idea’ is that [...]

It takes skill to make a franchise of movies that remains consistently good from the original movie to each subsequent movie. The Resident Evil franchise is one that I feel has managed to do this. However, this may be due to a personal bias that Resident Evil‘s character ‘Alice’ is one of the best female [...]