RED STATE (2011)

Comedy legend Kevin Smith made a famous pivot to horror with RED STATE (2011), loosely inspired by the fear mongering whackos from the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. John Goodman stars as Cooper, a radical church leader who sets up and violently apprehends the sinners he deems immoral. When three boys are lured to their location […]

SOCIETY (1989)

A tacky takedown of the wealthy elite, SOCIETY (1989) uses class conflict to create one of the sickest body horror romps in horror history. What if the rich were so rich, they were an entirely different species? Billy resents his privileged upbringing and admits to his therapist he doesn’t trust his own family. When he […]

THEY LIVE (1988)

John Carpenter’s movies are famously politically charged, having taken on conversations about police violence, colonialism, governmental treachery and in the case of THEY LIVE (1988), a mocking satire of Reagan-era policies in which a homeless man discovers aliens are secretly working with the ultra rich to overtake the citizens of Earth. Nada arrives in LA […]

THE FIRST OMEN (2024)

Much like our country’s political tendencies, we’ve been seemingly stuck in a cyclical era of remakes for decades. But every now and again, one of these money-grubbing franchise extensions will hit hard if placed in the correct hands. In this case, TV director Arkasha Stevenson stepped up to the plate to helm her feature horror […]

THE DEAD ZONE (1983)

Directed by David Cronenberg and based on Stephen King’s 1979 farsighted novel, THE DEAD ZONE (1983) tells the story of a schoolteacher named Johnny who awakens from a five year long coma with newfound psychic abilities that allow him to see the past and future of anyone he physically touches. Johnny’s abilities are used to […]