Alright, this one is special. This one is really special. If you know me at all (and I mean at all) you know two things: I love John Carpenter, and I love the drive-in. And when those two things come together? That’s not just an event. That’s heaven. So I am beyond thrilled, honored, and honestly a little giddy to be hosting Carpenter Fest 2: Dusk-to-Dawn at the legendary Midway Drive-In in Dixon, Illinois on Saturday, May 16th. This is a full-on, all-night celebration of Joh

You know, it’s funny, every time a new movie gets announced now, your first reaction is, “Oh, great…what are they rebooting this time?” Because that’s where we are. Everything is a reboot, a sequel, a reimagining, a “new take,” and originality in Hollywood is, let’s just say…not exactly thriving. I’ve complained about it a million times (on the podcast, on the socials, on this very site) but every once in a while, every once in a while, one of these reboots or revivals or wha

Alright…let’s talk about one of my favorite, weirdest, most ridiculous and honestly kind of hilarious chapters in movie history…Video Nasties. Because this is one of those things that, if you grew up in the ‘80s, if you were a horror fan, if you were even remotely curious about movies that your parents told you not to watch, this was like…this was the holy grail of forbidden fruit. And it all starts, really, with this perfect storm. Early ‘80s. VHS explodes. Suddenly everybod

So with Scream 7 in theaters, I thought, okay… this is the moment. Not to talk about whatever corporate committee is keeping Ghostface on life support like a horror franchise CPR dummy, but to talk about the guy. The guy who mattered. The guy who actually had a brain, a point of view, a sense of humor, and a real filmmaker’s instinct for how to scare you and also how to mess with you while he’s scaring you. Wes Craven . The real deal. The master. And yes, before anybody ge

What is there to say about Sam Raimi except that I love him. I love him as a filmmaker, I love him as a human being, and I love the fact that he is one of those rare directors whose personality is stamped on every single frame. You watch a Raimi movie and you don’t need the opening credits, you don’t need the title card, you don’t need somebody leaning over and whispering “this is a Sam Raimi movie.” You know. You can feel it. It’s in the camera movement, it’s in the editing

Alright, here we go. Zombies. One of my favorite subjects, one of my favorite subgenres, and honestly one of the reasons I fell in love with movies in the first place. As you probably already know, horror is my favorite genre. Always has been, always will be. Horror movies were my gateway drug into cinema. They were the first films that really grabbed me as a kid, scared the hell out of me, thrilled me, confused me, and made me realize that movies could do things nothing else