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Photos: Rock & Shock 2010 Horror Convention

Rock & Shock Horror Convention | DCU Center | October 15-17, 2010
Attendees, vendors, and horror-themed merch on the convention show floor of the seventh annual Rock & Shock.
By ANDY WARE | October 18, 2010

Review: My Soul To Take

Craven's worst?
The killer looks a bit like the strung-out version of Hagrid, the dim-witted giant from the Harry Potter movies.
By ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | October 13, 2010

Point of no return

The end justifies the meaning in Don DeLillo's Omega
Don DeLillo's novels have been shrinking, like a star collapsing into itself, perhaps, or vapor fading on a glass.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 02, 2010

Video: 2010 horror movie previews

Hollywood Splat Pics and Horrific Indies
Will 2010 be a festive romp of eye-gouging, throat-slitting, and disemboweling?
By MICHAEL NEEL | January 28, 2010

Play by Play: January 1, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings: January 1, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 30, 2009

Review: The House of the Devil

The '80s revival hits the horror genre
Have you walked near a college campus lately? You might notice that the ’80s are creeping into fashion, the way the ’70s did a few years back, and with the same lack of irony. It’s happening in cinemas, too — something that’s not entirely unwelcome when it comes to the horror genre.
By BRETT MICHEL | December 02, 2009

Hip-hop from Hell

Horrorcore salutes Ice Cube and Alice Cooper
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds.
By CHRIS FARAONE | October 29, 2009

Hip-hop is dead

. . . or undead, rather — just ask Zombie Death Squad
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds — and not just in redneck pockets, where rap music hardly reached before, but in suburban enclaves where acts like Twiztid and Tech N9ne sell out shows with ease.
By CHRIS FARAONE | October 30, 2009

Review: The Last House on the Left (2009)

Instead of subversive shocks, it's more of the same torture we've seen a thousand times before
Critics and audiences reviled Wes Craven's 1972 original, but its raw power gave it an enduring, endearing legacy.
By PEG ALOI | March 18, 2009

Mystery Somerville Theatre 3000

Hey, Up in Front!
One film you probably won't see honored retrospectively at Sunday night's Oscars is Blood of the Vampires , Gerardo de Leon's schlocky 1966 Filipino horror flick, in which a family of revenants engage in badly dubbed mayhem.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 19, 2009

Review: Friday the 13th (2009)

A suspense-less rampage
Jason Voorhees's bloody hands have developed green thumbs.
By BRETT MICHEL | February 12, 2009

William Friedkin at the Harvard Film Archive

William Friedkin, the New Hollywood’s most daring pulp-realist provocateur.
However we may still praise, and therefore bury, the American New Wave, we do still run the genuine risk of slipping down the wormhole slicked by present-moment techno obsessions and amnesiac entertainment-media narcissism.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | February 11, 2009

Tiger by the tail

The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman
The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman
By STEVE VINEBERG | November 18, 2008

A 'beautiful life'

Center Stage's Cabaret is in top form
In the context of today's new political dawn, Cabaret , the Kander and Ebb musical about 1930 Berlin, is like one of those silly horror movies that couples go to for an excuse to cling together and shriek. Isn't it great that the mayhem isn't happening to us is the unspoken message.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 12, 2008

Drowning in a sea of red

Seeing Saw
As a film critic, I'm obliged to approach every film with an open mind.
By BRETT MICHEL | November 07, 2008

Saw V

The previous entries have bled dry every variation on tormenting a victim
As always, several unluckies get to squirm through a maze of death; meanwhile, a rogue FBI agent (Scott Patterson) tries to make sense of it all.
By TOM MEEK | October 31, 2008

Fiend footage festival

“Feast Of Flesh VII” at the Coolidge
We’ve got a formidable line-up here: Banana Zombie and Housewife Zombie are joined Bike Courier Zombie, and a mangled-shirt-and-tails zombie Cannibal dubs “Dr. Teeth.”
By SHAULA CLARK | October 01, 2008

The House Bunny

Cheap gags and the requisite amount of T+A
Once again Anna Faris, the only reason to see the Scary Movie franchise, adds undeserved riches to an awful premise.
By TOM MEEK | August 27, 2008

Prom Night

A bloodless slasher flick
The original Prom Night (1980) wasn’t all that original.
By TOM MEEK | April 16, 2008

Horrror fans to mark ‘Lovecraft Rising’

Literary life
The man famously wrote, “I am Providence,” so it just wouldn’t be right for folks in this town to say, “H.P. who ?”
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 26, 2008

The power of love

A respected music critic contemplates Celine Dion and has a crisis of conscience
Carl Wilson’s recent entry into Continuum’s esteemed 33 1/3 series — a series of books by critics and musicians devoted to canonical pop albums — is framed by an irresistible concept.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 19, 2008

Let me see your grill

The origins of the vagina dentata
If there’s one thing the new horror flick Teeth teaches us, it’s that nothing sours a romantic soirée like a vagina dentata.
By GREG COOK | January 25, 2008

Colony collapse disorder

Covered in Bees Kill Louder Than Fire
If you get a chance, check out the trailer for the movie 2 on YouTube.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 05, 2007

P2

A sex-gore flop
Bentley and Nichols do wonders with a property otherwise as appealing as an empty parking garage on Christmas Eve.
By TOM MEEK | November 14, 2007

30 Days of Night

Hoary high-camp clichés
Poor Danny Huston leads them; his hissed Nietzschean ripostes are tiresome and laughable, leaving him about as scary as Count Chocula.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 17, 2007

Cutting edge

Cronenberg’s twisted mirror
Some who’ve watched the on-line videos of al-Qaeda executions may suffer a shock of recognition at some images in Eastern Promises .
By PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Hatchet

A classic slasher eye roller
One misshapen maybe-man/maybe-ghost stalks a group of pretty young things and rips their limbs off with generous plumes of blood spray and strewn entrails.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 05, 2007

Gangsters

Nave exhibit rounds up Somerville collectives
Somerville has become a bastion for the wild and woolly.
By GREG COOK | July 24, 2007

Playlist: July 6, 2007

Ben Sisto’s five favorite YouTube videos
The Pointer Sisters, Escape from New York , Squids, and more.
By BEN SISTO | July 03, 2007

Paris je t'aime

A whirlwind tour of 18 arrondissements in 120 minutes
The concept for this anthology was a short film representing each of Paris’s 20 arrondissements, from the Jardins des Tuileries (#1) to the Cimitière du Père Lachaise (#20).
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 23, 2007