Robert Pattinson began his career as a Hollywood heartthrob, thanks to the success of the Twilight movies, but the British star has unexpectedly become one of the most impressive actors working in the industry today.
While many such films fall into the category of body horror, several other horror movies aim to gross out their audiences as much as they do to frighten them.
There is a unique pleasure in seeing what a new pair of hands, eyes, and sensibilities can bring to an established property. At their best, horror remakes manage to pay homage to the original while also putting a fresh spin on it.
Coralie Fargeat tells IndieWire how films by Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers, John Carpenter, and Darren Aronofsky left their imprint on her and "The Substance."
"Really, I don’t know why [they] thought I should do it," Cronenberg said of being courted by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer to direct the 1983 feature.
Horror is the movie genre most positioned to take advantage of the fears and desires in the deepest parts of the human psyche. These films stay in the mind long after the final scene, demonstrating horror’s enduring power.
Given the biological realities of pregnancy — in particular, how it influences the female body in many strange and unexpected ways — it’s unsurprising that this phenomenon should have proven to be a favored subject for horror movie directors.
People like to poo-poo remakes of any kind. “Phooey and pshaw!,” they seem to say with their words. Well, ever hear of a little movie called Star Wars?
The latest Alien franchise film, Alien: Romulus, is being released as a limited edition VHS on Dec. 3. This is very unexpected, especially in today’s physical media market.
Summer camp slashers and stories with dreary fall settings dominate the horror genre. Still, the colder months don’t get nearly as much attention — especially once holiday horror films like “Black Christmas” and “Silent Night, Deadly Night” are out of season.
Sandra Oh will also chair the fundraising gala, which toasts "Nightbitch" star Adams and "The Shrouds" director Cronenberg. Both films will play the festival.
After seven years and five seasons, Star Trek: Discovery has ended with the episode “Life Itself.” As the series headed into the homestretch, the writers decided to reveal one prominent character on the series has actually been around for a lot longer than most Star Trek fans watching ever knew.
Cannes: Cronenberg tells IndieWire about the close-to-home story of grief that drove him to make his biotech horror movie "The Shrouds," and why it shouldn't matter to audiences how personal it is.
Cannes: Vincent Cassel plays a widower who buries his wife in a live-streaming coffin in this subtle but enormously rewarding movie from the master of body horror.
The best horror films allow the viewer to develop an emotional attachment to a particular character or characters before finally shuffling them off this mortal coil. When a horror film nails the sadness factor, it can make for a triumph of scary cinema.
Body horror is one of the most unsettling sub-genres of horror filmmaking. Often focusing on the permeability of the human body, these films aim to make the viewer squirm in discomfort. In the universe of the body horror film, sometimes one’s worst enemy is one’s body.
If there is one thing that Hollywood seems to love, it’s stories about itself, and films about Hollywood and its stars have regularly appeared. These movies remind the viewer of the glamor and magic associated with the industry itself.
The twenty-five movies on this list eschew such half-measures. They go hard. They leave you battered, if not completely broken. So pull out a box of tissues, and let's relive some of the most traumatizing endings of all time.