As with a full-fledged horror movie, a horror-based comedy doesn’t quite need to reinvent the wheel. It merely needs to appeal to horror nerds and comedy fans alike — a shockingly delicate balancing act to maintain. Look at perhaps the most famous examples of the genre: the Scary Movie franchise. To the creators of the Scary Movies, merely pointing out obvious horror benchmarks is high comedy. It doesn’t appeal to a majority of horror nerds, because it simply puts the […]
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The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 6 & 7: Night of the Living Dead // Dawn of the Dead
First things first: I apologize deeply to the ten or so horror-starved souls out there who went unfulfilled yesterday. It won’t happen again, and today, we have a delightful Halloween twofer for you to make up for it. Zombies are fashionable. Werewolves and vampires have lost a bit of their cache since they became heart-throbs — and you all know who’s fault that is, kids — but in terms of monsters that are almost universally respected by horror fans, zombies […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 5: Them
Against all odds, it seems as though modern-day French horror has a keen grip on what is truly frightening. It can be intense — Pascal Laugier’s eviscerating Martyrs taps into difficult notions of pain and existentialism, while Alexandre Bustillo’s equally trying Inside puts an expectant mother through the ringer to horrifying effect. David Moreau and Xavier Palud’s Them is a lot simpler than either of those movies, but it’s still a potent horror thriller, and it taps into something a […]
The Singles Bar: Adele, “Skyfall”
Man, what can’t Adele do? 2011 saw the British soulstress release her sophomore album, 21, winning six Grammys, spending 79 weeks in Billboard‘s Top 10 (24 of them at No. 1) and selling nine million copies in the U.S. (an unheard of number by today’s sales standards – it’s the best-selling album of 2011 and 2012). Now, Adele ends her post-21 hiatus from the music industry this month with, of all things, a soundtrack song – a career move rarely taken since Lionel Richie said it for always (that’s the way it should be) . […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 4: Night of the Demons
As I sit down to sell you on Kevin Tenney’s little-respected Night of the Demons, I find it important to reiterate once again that this series is not designed as a treatise on the best horror films of all time. There’s going to be some overlap, sure, particularly as we get closer to the holiday, but this month we’re looking to direct you towards flicks that embody the fun, eerie nature of the holiday. It’s not important that each film […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 3: The Descent
For the third day of Halloween, we take a look at crippling fear and claustrophobia in Neil Marshall’s UK nail-biter “The Descent”.
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 2: The Night of the Hunter
For the second of Popblerd’s 31 Days of Halloween, we look at Charles Laughton’s “Night of the Hunter”, a Gothic, deep-south potboiler starring Robert Mitchum.
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 1: May
Popblerd’s countdown of 31 great Halloween movies kicks off with Lucky McKee’s twisted, bloody character study “May.”
bLISTerd Presents: Back To School: The Honorable Mentions
Here are a few movies that just missed the cut on our best school movies list. Is your favorite still missing?
bLISTerd Goes Back To School! The 10 Best School-Related Movies
It’s back to school time! The Popblerd staff (joined by the Popdose staff) counts down their favorite school-related films of all time.
The Viewfinder: Stellar Corpses, “Vampire Kiss”
Are you a fan of The Lost Boys and AFI? Then the video for “Vampire Kiss” from Stellar Corpses is for you!
Blerd Radio: August 2012, Episode 1: Those Damn Kids
It’s podcast time again…among the many topics we turn over this time, we anoint a new heroine–Paris Jackson!