Articles tagged with horror

By insisting that all plot details be shrouded in secrecy, I worried that 20th Century Fox and X-Files creator Chris Carter were merely providing a likely excuse for their decision not to offer advance press screenings of the new film, a usual sign of a studio’s lack of confidence in a product. If this had been their reasoning, it would have been unnecessary, as X-Files: I Want to Believe is not a bad film and is far better than others that have received press screenings in...

Alexandre Aja’s remake of my favorite Wes Craven film is nothing if not faithful to the original. For the first hour of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), it even seems to use the same script as The Hills Have Eyes (1977), with the exception that these characters have cell phones. Of course, cell phones don’t work in the desert, so there is little to distinguish this film from that. It is this, the film’s inability to become its own movie, which keeps The Hills Have Eyes (2006) from being one...

Every year in mid-February the Entomology Department at the University of Illinois sponsors an Insect Fear Festival, free to the public and showcasing the film industry’s portrayals of insects, using, if the past two years are anything to go on, a few animated shorts, an episode of a television show, and a movie. What ties these together is a theme insect; last year’s was ticks, this year’s...