Hot Shots of the Week: Screaming for Neve

Scream Queen—and Scream Queen—Neve Campbell celebrated a birthday earlier this month. I love when Scream Queens have October birthdays. It’s deliciously perfect isn’t it? As Sidney Prescott in the Scream movies, Neve has long been one of the most resourceful and enduring Final Girls in horror. Unrelated but equally cool, she also looks pretty damn … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: Screaming for Neve →

Random Image Dump # 28: Femme Fatales Magazine

The magazine Femme Fatales paid loving tribute to film and television actresses during its years in circulation, between 1992 and 2008. The articles and interviews with screen goddesses covered the gamut, from low to high brow, and everything and everyone in between. It was probably the only magazine on the stands that was just as … Continue reading Random Image Dump # 28: Femme Fatales Magazine →

The Gothic Horror Art of Bruce Timm

Artist, animator, writer, producer, and director: Bruce Timm has been an integral creative force across popular culture for decades now. He’s worked in comic books and television, primarily, and is probably best known for co-creating the landmark program Batman: The Animated Series, and his art style has been integral to DC Comics’ animated branding for … Continue reading The Gothic Horror Art of Bruce Timm →

She Slays

Back in the ‘80s, you had already established what would be a lifelong love of butt-kicking heroines across multiple genres and subgenres—scintillating superheroes, fabulous Final Girls, interstellar space babes, atomic action stars, sexy spies, etc. So it’s no surprise that a blonde high school cheerleader by day who moonlights as a high-kicking, ass-whooping vampire slayer … Continue reading She Slays →

Hot Shots of the Week: Double Trouble

The 1971 Hammer horror film Twins of Evil is one of my favorites the studio ever produced. It’s wonderfully schlocky, creepily atmospheric, and about as sexy as Hammer horror ever got, thanks largely to the bodacious, identical twin sisters Madeleine and Mary Collinson, who play very thirsty vampires. Poor Peter Cushing is barely a match … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: Double Trouble →

“You Know You Want It”: The Slumber Party Massacre

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) has always been one of my favorite slasher movies. The premise is a straightforward Halloween (1978) ripoff—a seemingly fun night turns terrifying for teenagers are picked off by a deranged killer—but that’s part of its charm. Writer Rita Mae Brown and director Amy Holden Jones seem to have had a … Continue reading “You Know You Want It”: The Slumber Party Massacre →

Lost and Found: Hell Night

In which the always spunky Linda Blair and a motley crew of likable teenagers spend one "Hell Night" in a haunted mansion and, you guessed it, horror ensues! The supernatural slasher Hell Night (1981) is weirdly underrated. It’s rarely mentioned among other great slasher films from the genre’s peak years, circa 1978–1982. Halloween kicked off … Continue reading Lost and Found: Hell Night →