Horror

  • Directing

Metamorphose Reveals Sci-Fi Horrors of the Transcendent Flesh

The newest trailer for filmmaker Dallas Harvey’s upcoming sci-fi body horror film Metamorphose dropped this week, and it’s gloriously upsetting.…

5 months ago
  • Movie News

My Baby Teeth Reignited My Creativity in ‘Tooth’

My short film "Tooth" came out of nowhere. For me, the COVID years were full of heaviness, and not for…

6 months ago
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Telluride Horror Show Founder Ted Wilson Wants Indie Horror Filmmakers to Throw Restraint Out the Window

Ted Wilson founded the Telluride Horror Show 14 years ago. So, it's safe to say that he knows what to…

7 months ago
  • Movie News

In ‘My Scary Indian Wedding,’ Ramone Menon Smartly Merges Tradition and Superstition

Ramone Menon grew up in what he describes as a "fairly modern and liberated household" in India — but it…

8 months ago
  • Podcasts

Slash’s Love of Old-School Horror Led Him to Executive Produce and Score The Breach

Early in The Breach, the new horror film from Rodrigo Gudiño, a body turns up on the Porcupine River and…

2 years ago
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She Will Director Charlotte Colbert Was Inspired By Real 18th Century Scottish Witch Trials

Director Charlotte Colbert makes her feature directorial debut with horror-thriller She Will, which was draws on the true stories of…

2 years ago
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How the One-Man Show Behind Indie Horror Flick Sator Suffered His Way to Success (Video)

Jordan Graham has truly suffered for his art. He's the writer-director-and-everything-else one-man show behind Sator, a 2019 indie supernatural horror…

2 years ago
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X: Ti West’s Two Rules for Making an Authentic, Never Kitschy Period Piece

X writer-director Ti West has a knack for period pieces: His breakout horror feature, 2009's The House of the Devil cataloged…

2 years ago
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A House on the Bayou Director Alex McAulay Deconstructed This Horror Movie Trope

A House on the Bayou writer-director Alex McAulay is a big fan of classic horror movies. But that doesn't mean…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Lamb Started Out as an Experiment in Filmmaking

The seed for the horror film Lamb was planted when moviemaker Valdimir Jóhannsson and author-poet-screenwriter Sjón met up at a…

3 years ago
  • Interviews

George Romero: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker (From the MovieMaker Archives)

This filmmaking advice from George Romero was originally published on May 26, 2010. He died on July 16, 2017. Romero's…

3 years ago
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Crimes Against Your Ears: Inside the Auditory Slasher Sound of Violence

To create the murderous soundscapes of Sound of Violence, Jussi Tegelman first tried to scare himself. The sound designer used…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall Want to Be Judged by Their Work — Starting With The Reckoning

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/charlotte-kirk-and-neil-marshall-the-reckoning If you've read anything about Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall in the last two years, it's hard not to…

3 years ago
  • Interviews

John Carpenter Talks Remakes and the “Insane Business” of Horror Moviemaking

In Hollywood these days, it sometimes seems easier to find an actor who’ll admit to having had plastic surgery than…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

What Lies Below: 8 Red Flags That Pointed to Stepdad's Abuse — Before the Lizard Stuff

What Lies Below is a horror-thriller about a girl who comes home from summer camp to discover that her mother…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How Much of Amazon's Them Is Based on a True Story?

Them, the new Amazon Prime horror series about suburban racism, begins with some truthful background: "Between 1916 and 1970, roughly 6…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Vigil: How Keith Thomas Created His Authentic Jewish Horror Film (Exclusive Clip)

Keith Thomas got the idea for The Vigil when he was at a synagogue and overheard two men discussing a…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Vigil: How Keith Thomas Created His Authentic Jewish Horror Film (Exclusive Clip)

Keith Thomas got the idea for The Vigil when he was at a synagogue and overheard two men discussing a…

3 years ago
  • 2020 Genre Fests

The World’s 50 Best Genre Festivals 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway

This list of the World's 50 Best Genre Fests originated at a dinner in Park City, Utah last winter, at…

4 years ago
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  • Podcasts

Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand on the Thrills of Devolving Into ‘Just Complete Chaos’ in The Rental (Podcast)

At the start of The Rental, we see characters played by Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand trying to book a…

4 years ago
  • Directing

“The Best Approach is a Calm Approach”: Welcome to Mercy Screenwriter and Star Kristen Ruhlin on Forging Your Own Moviemaking Path

Kristen Ruhlin knows a thing or two about perseverance. The screenwriter and star of Welcome to Mercy—a trippy dive into…

5 years ago
  • Other

Stayin’ Alive: What Keeps You Alive‘s Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen on Surviving a Career Wearing Multiple Hats

Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are no strangers to multitasking. Now on the road with What Keeps You Alive, the…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Exclusive: Explore Postmodern Genre Moviemaking With Sebastian Gutierrez’s Visceral Elizabeth Harvest (Video)

It's like they always say: if your marriage isn't going the way you planned, try to spice things up. Maybe…

6 years ago
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Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web

In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic family to reconstruct genre…

6 years ago