Movie Category: A Nightmare on Franklin Street

Three gnarly, 17th-century Salem Witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) are unwittingly conjured up for a Halloween night in present-day Salem. While they tend to spruce up the party festivities with their outlandish…

Special LIVE pre-show with Barry Bostwick! Does The Rocky Horror Picture Show need any introduction? It’s a cultural artifact with unlimited lifespan — it creates new audiences for itself each screening, and will most likely…

The enormous animated hit Monsters, Inc. spawned a sequel, at least one amusement-park themed area, and a bevy of warmly held childhood memories. That movie, of course, is about the arcane rules and sprawling infrastructure…

HOSTED BY DR. PAUL BEARER None of the classic Universal monsters have had a history as meandering and confusing as the Mummy — in this case, specifically Kharis, the second and most memorable of the…

HOSTED BY DR. PAUL BEARER In 1974, Mel Brooks got together a bunch of his funniest friends and made a send-up of a film genre that he loved as a kid but that they just…

ONE OF THIS YEAR’S HOTTEST HORROR FILMS Director Jordan Peele has spent the past few years developing into one of the most original, creative minds in genre film of his generation. And even with stratospheric…

ONE OF THIS YEAR’S HOTTEST HORROR FILMS If there’s one thing indie paterfamilias Jim Jarmusch is good at, it’s making every project he does feel ineffably connected, in tone and style and approach to its…

Roger Ebert called Zodiac “the ‘All the President’s Men’ of serial killer movies, with Woodward and Bernstein played by a cop and a cartoonist.” And he’s right, though that’s maybe not the most exciting log-line…

Fair warning: if you think this is an animated feature with the voice talents of Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick, turn around now and never look back. Troll 2 is a famously horrible little flick,…

Psycho is based on a book of the same name by Robert Bloch. During its writing, Bloch was living 35 miles away from real-life murderer Ed Gein, a serial killer who flayed his victims in…

Did you know: David Cronenberg thinks The Brood is the only real horror movie he’s made? Let that sink in. He’s either got a really unusual conception of horror movies or a really unusual understanding…

This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre-Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle, The Dancer of Paris – now considered lost) was a super-duper-spectacular as only the Hollywood of…

Why did it take a million years to make a movie out of the R.L. Stine series Goosebumps – the best-selling book series in history until a certain boy wizard popped up? ‘90s kids didn’t…

Remember Scream? Scream was very popular. No complaints here, because it deserved that popularity; Scream was fresh and original and good. But “popular” in Hollywood often translates into “let’s do that same thing again,” and…

Fifty years ago, Michael Powell was the darling of British cinema, thanks to the movies he directed with Emeric Pressburger, including Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. And then he made Peeping Tom. It’s since been…

Film critic Mike D’Angelo once wrote that the ideal way to see Takashi Miike’s Audition is to have a trusted friend that knows your tastes hand you an unlabeled copy in a paper bag, so you have…

Spectacular soundtracks, grindhouse thrills, B-movie ingenuity, incredible style: there are plenty of good reasons blaxploitation took off like it did in the early 1970s. The simplest explanation, of course, is that these films served moviegoers…

Candyman turns on a well-worn urban legend: look in a darkened mirror, say a name three to five times, and whatever horror you’ve called up from the nether-whatever will appear. In this case, the monster…

The script for the original 1978 Halloween was written in 10 days, which, yeah, actually seems like plenty of time, come to think of it. It’s a pretty terse movie: silent killer menaces teens, travels…