Tag Archives: horror

Two separate times in David Middel’s horror film The Ritual, title cards pop up declaring that you are watching the most well-documented case of demonic possession in history. A final message then asserts that “debate persists” over whether this instance — the 1928 exorcism of Emma Schmidt — was a case of …

Shannon Hanmer still remembers the first scary movie she saw in a theatre — the R-rated teen vampire thriller The Lost Boys starring Kiefer Sutherland as the blood-thirsty villain. She was four years old.  “My mom thought it was about Peter Pan,” she said. Instead, a young Hanmer watched in horror as the 1987 film served up …

Veep‘s Sam Richardson stars as park ranger Finn Wheeler in the comedy/horror/whodunnit Werewolves Within. After so many years of zombies dominating the horror genre, it’s nice to see the classic werewolf making a comeback. Last year’s sleeper indie film The Wolf of Snow Hollow was a wry, clever take that mixed elements of …