Suspiria

  • The Rundown

Louis C.K.’s Fourth of July; Dario Argento Returns; a Rapper Gets Rural

Louis C.K. suddenly has a new movie called Fourth of July; Suspiria director Dario Argento returns with his first film in…

2 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Looks That Kill: Eleven Horror DPs Reveal the Tricks and Tech Behind the Year’s Scariest Shooting Schemes

Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and they all have one…

5 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Going to Extremes: To Create Horror That Shatters the Senses, Be Sensitive to Emotional Extremity

Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Fantastic Fest 2018: Peak Programming and Premieres and a Self-Reflective Tone Shape the Austin Hotspot’s 13th Year

At its heart, Fantastic Fest is not simply a film festival: It's a weeklong experience of controlled extremity, in which…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Festival Beat: Beyond Fest Founders On Building A Genre Festival From Goblin to Cronenberg

Among their many eccentric counterparts over the years, insect politicians, Haddonfield historians and bitchin’ scary German guys are three of…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

2018 Beyond Fest Preview: Five Screenings to Catch at Los Angeles’ Expertly Programmed Genre Festival

Returning for the sixth time, Beyond Fest continues to build on its reputation as the home to all of Los…

6 years ago
  • Directing

"Let Actors Lose Themselves, But Give Them Love and Desire": Luca Guadagnino and Walter Fasano on Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name was hailed by many at January's Sundance Film Festival as this edition's best, and given…

6 years ago
  • Best Of

The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018

The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

MovieMaker Minute: Why Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name Was Shot Using Just One Lens

Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers.…

7 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Undying Classics: Nicolas Winding Refn’s 10 Favorite Horror Films

Noted genre aficionado Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive) names his 10 favorite horror films, in no particular order. 1. The…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

The End of Your Trope: Three Gendered Horror Conventions and Ideas for Putting Them to Death

When MovieMaker first asked me to write a piece about female tropes in the movies, I misread the email and…

8 years ago