12 Must-Have Songs for Your Halloween Playlist
Before you go out to your favorite haunted house or visit your favorite witchy woman, be sure to have the proper monster music handy.
24 Oct 2019
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John Carpenter's New 'Halloween' Is a Father-Son Bonding Activity Remembering Times Past Rather Than Finding New Places to Go
John Carpenter revisits his most iconic work of horror with a brand new soundtrack for the 40th anniversary of Halloween.
31 Oct 2018
The Darkness Within: 13 Films That Burrow into Our Psyches
These 13 films help us understand horror as an important mode of cultural expression, as a means to explore the dark inner recesses of ourselves and our society.
29 Oct 2018
Clowns Are Up to a Different Kind of Funny Business, These Days
"Creepy clowns" have become the rule, not the exception. How and when did clowns change from entertainers to tormentors?
03 Nov 2017
The Past and Future of 'Sin City' 'Deadpool', 'Alien', 'Predator' and 'Halloween'
Flops, superheroes, monsters and noir in The Next Reel.
20 Sep 2016
"Come Again, Little Girl": 32 Films That Begin With Someone Leaving a Mental Institution (1904-2012)
These 32 films make the case for the recently-escaped-or-released-mental-patient narrative as its own subgenre, replete with a language of recurring themes, plot devices, and character archetypes.
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17 Mar 2016
'Ghosts: A Haunted History' Is Sure to Grip the Believer and the Skeptic Alike
Comprehensive, fascinating, and eye-catching, Lisa Morton's Ghosts: A Haunted History is the only book you'll ever need about the world's most notable supernatural entity.
17 Nov 2015
The Moving Pixels Podcast Spends Halloween with 'The Music Machine'
The Music Machine tells a story about evil, both of an intentional nature and of more awful, more accidental kind.
26 Oct 2015
The Narrative of the 'Halloween' Saga Gets Confused Over Time
The message of John Carpenter's Halloween is simple: "Evil is here!" To expect any sequel to enhance that idea is to miss the point.
17 Mar 2015
New York City's Village Halloween Parade 2014 Photos
Cute and cuddly or grim and gorey, all can revel at the Halloween Parade.
07 Nov 2014
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals: 31 October 2012 - San Diego, CA
Potter is sort of a sonic bridge between pop rock and jam rock, a relatively unique place to reside.
21 Nov 2012
Memory Tapes – "Walk Me Home 2" Minimix (MP3)
Memory Tapes have kindly dropped a new Halloween mix on us right in time for the spooky festivities. This comes in advance of their new LP, 'Grace/Confusion', releasing 4 December on Carpark Records.
29 Oct 2012
The Hellbilly Comes Clean: An Interview With Rob Zombie
When not releasing a new remix album, starting a co-headlining tour with Marilyn Manson, or working on his fifth full-length feature film, Rob Zombie sits down with PopMatters, talking about all of his projects as well as revealing, rather interestingly, just how much he hates clutter ...
11 Sep 2012
'Poltergeist': Home Sweet Hell
James Kahn’s version of Poltergeist is a rare example of a book written after a movie is released, which results in a riveting read.
27 Oct 2010
Does the Suit Make the Iron Man, or Vice-versa?
Tony Stark has a big personality that far outsizes his Iron Man 2 suit of armor, but sometimes our movie men are "made" by their suits.
05 May 2010
A Ghost Story of Dubious Origins
No matter the vercity of the tale, The Haunting in Connecticut has just enough creep quotient to keep me engaged, especially since I grew up a few miles from the house.
27 Oct 2009
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