Horror Archive

  • Scream-A-Thon: Behind the Mask

    Posted on June 2, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Ever since Wes Craven decided to hack to pieces the slasher genre he helped (in part) to create with 1996′s Scream, various filmmakers have attempted to make ironic or “clever” films that expose the now trite cliches that string hapless slasher films together. Don’t say...

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  • [Review] Insidious (2011)

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I first saw the trailer for Insidious a couple of months ago, and I was torn over whether or not I wanted to see it. I like Patrick Wilson (previously Nite Owl in Watchmen and Raoul in Phantom of the Opera), but the association with...

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  • Scream-A-Thon: Dead and Breakfast

    Posted on March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
    The pop culture appetite for zombies shows no signs of abating, and it’s amazing how many zombie-related movies have flown under the mainstream’s radar over recent years. How many people remember Plane Dead (also known as Flight of the Living Dead) or Zombie Strippers? So...

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  • Highest Grossing Horror Movies: 15 through 11

    Posted on March 10, 2011 | No Comments
    The other day I came across an article on CNBC.com that focused on the fifteen highest grossing horror movies of all time. This piqued my interest, because I have loved horror movies since I was a kid. Now that I’m older, I’ve even expanded to...

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  • Scream-A-Thon: American Psycho

    Posted on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
    With Christian Bale overcoming his primadonna reputation and winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The Fighter, I thought it would be prudent to use today’s spotlight on horror to dig up what I believe to be his finest role to date...

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  • Whisper Hungarian in My Ear Meets White Zombie

    Posted on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Once upon a time, Bela Lugosi starred in a film called White Zombie. As previously noted on the Bunker, this 1932 Universal horror classic is widely considered to be the first full-length zombie movie. In 2010, Le Serpent Rouge, a dance-performance ensemble starring Rachel Brice,...

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  • Cutting Room: 13 Horror Films Slashed From Other Lists [Archive]

    Posted on October 28, 2010 | 7 Comments
    13. Cabin Fever (2002) Writer director Eli Roth has a well known bromance with Quentin Tarantino. I personally think that QT spends way too much of his time promoting and helping inferior filmmakers like Roth and Robert Rodriquez. Roth went on to kick off the...

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  • TMZ Video: Danny DeVito's Blood Factory Buffet

    Posted on July 15, 2010 | 3 Comments
    If y’all will indulge me in a moment of personal pride: My husband‘s been featured in a short film with Danny DeVito. Sadly, TMZ’s not giving me the option to embed the video, but if you’d like to see the lengths to which Mr. DeVito...

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  • Undead Nazis in the Dead, Dead Snow

    Undead Nazis in the Dead, Dead Snow

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | 9 Comments
    Although a few authors and filmmakers have attempted more nuanced portrayals of Nazi soldiers (such as Ian Tregellis’s recent, and beautiful, novel Bitter Seeds, or – to some extent – the more venerable and (let’s be honest) less admirable The Keep), “Nazi” has long been...

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  • Classic Horror: White Zombie

    Classic Horror: White Zombie

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | 7 Comments
    Zombies, as if you haven’t noticed, are one of the mainstream’s new darlings. Long a staple of low-budget horror films, they have more recently groaned, stumbled and lurched their way onto the A-list. (Rumor has it that Natalie Portman will star in the film adaption...

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