“Well, we fucked up.” –Burt Reynolds’s character of Lewis Many would initially quibble with including John Boorman’s Deliverance in a horror listing.1 However, once the division is made between the supernatural and the naturalistic, the 1972 classic becomes...
Alexandre Aja’s 2006 remake of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes bears the tagline “The Lucky Ones Die First.” The slogan for Mark Allen’s debut film, Delirium–which also revolves around a group of individuals stranded in the desert–is “The Lucky One Dies...
DELICATESSEN is a film that I only really caught pieces of it when it was on cable, but always ended up coming into it, halfway into or toward the end of the film. It’s always been a film everyone always said I should sit down and watch, as it’s a film...
John Landis mixes dark humor and gore in Deer Women, one of the better Masters of Horror episodes in my opinion. It’s not really a scary film, but it does have some pretty gruesome scenes including dead bodies that are pretty much stomped into bloody pieces. Its...
“This young Italian guy is starting to worry me.” –Alfred Hitchcock referring to Dario Argento Dario Argento (Suspiria, Tenebre, Opera, Phenomena, Inferno), the foremost visual auteur of the Italian horror directors (more consistent than his often-cited...
