Stephen King is one of the most beloved American authors of all time. I mean, the guy is the  King of Horror. His name is so ubiquitous that even people who don’t read books know who he is. He’s written over 65 novels. Over 200 short stories. That’s not even counting screenplays, essays, nonfiction, the Richard Bachman books. The man has basically written enough material to fill multiple libraries, and the sheer output is staggering. Some of it’s horror, some of it’s fantas

With the release of the latest Conjuring  movie: The Conjuring: Last Rites , I thought I’d sit down and bang out a little article, a little essay, about one of my favorite weird corners of horror cinema: those movies that are actually based on true incidents. True stories. Real-life events. And sometimes that’s really hard to believe, because when you watch these movies, they’re so over the top, so insane, so terrifying, you’d never in a million years think, “Oh yeah, that to

Flashback Weekend Dusk to Dawn HorrorFest at the Historic Midway Drive-In Hosted by Nick Digilio – Saturday, September 20th – Dixon, IL I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting Flashback Weekend ’s Dusk to Dawn HorrorFest at the legendary Midway Drive-In  in Dixon, Illinois. This event is always one of the best nights of the year, and if you’re a horror fan, a drive-in lover, or someone who simply wants to spend a magical night under the stars watching wild movies with great pe

With the Peacock premiere of Night of the Zoopocalypse happening this week, I thought I'd write a bit about the one and only Clive Barker . Clive Barker is one of my favorite creative geniuses. Not just in the world of horror but in the larger world of literature, film, theatre, comics, visual art, and culture in general. He is a true renaissance man of the dark and strange. He writes novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. He directs films. He paints, illustrates,

Katherine Bigelow, Me, Jamie Lee Curtis. 1990. I was just a bit happy. Jamie Lee Curtis is one of my favorite actresses of all time. No question. Period. End of sentence. She was my first massive crush as a teenager. I’m talkin’ about full-blown, head-over-heels, heart-goes-thump-thump level stuff, from the moment I laid eyes on her in Halloween  in 1978 when I was 13 years old. I mean, come on. The minute she stepped on screen as Laurie Strode, I was done. Cooked. Smoked. H

With the recent release of the new horror film Clown in a Cornfield —which, by the way, is absolutely terrible (and yes, you can read my review for all the painful details )—I started thinking about clowns. Not the kind that ruin horror movies by being dull, derivative, and dumb (looking at you, Terrifier  fans), but the kind of clowns that actually work. The ones that are funny, creepy, iconic, strange, and unforgettable. So I decided to put together a list of my 10 favorite