In horror, sincerity stands as the most welcoming and, simultaneously, repelling factor for a genre filmmaker. Terror is forthright; this fundamental directness of the genre both
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Your 100 hardly un-thought of favorite books, per Facebook chain posts; ‘Harry Potter’ hailed #1
There is a notorious chain-post going around on Facebook, inspiring (seemingly) everyone to join in and list books that have stayed with or influenced them.
TSZ#1: ‘The Gifted’ (2014)
THE SPOILER ZONE is a haven (on a different dimension, perhaps? Erm, doesn’t matter…) in which one can further discuss a film most elaborate and
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Thank God it’s ‘Sabado’ [bukas]! The new music video from Eraserheads is here…
Taking to his Facebook profile this morning, Erik Matti shares the latest of his labors of love: a music video, in true laid-back E-heads spirit,
The Gifted
Besides the Blue Suede-sequence from Boy Golden, the epilogue in Chris Martinez’s Kimmy Dora: Ang Kyemeng Sequel is one of the cleverest things to grace
Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel ‘Hansel & Gretel’ lands film adaptation
Despite the timid success of the recent Jeremy Renner-starring Hansel & Gretel film, another one is being pushed through, this time taking Neil Gaiman’s same-name graphic novel
First-Look at ‘Thor #1’ Teases Female Thor
There is just about countless things to happen upon the emergence a brand-new Thor — “This is not She-Thor,” notes writer Jason Aaron. “This is
Watch: Bloody Red Band Trailer for ‘ABC’s of Death 2’
The crimson-blood, very red-band trailer for the much-awaited sequel ABC’s of Death 2 is upon us; and it must have been a painfully slow wait but it
Neil Gaiman releases new short story collection this February
My introduction to Neil Gaiman’s shorter works of fiction is his A Study in Emerald (featured in his collection Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders) from which point I
Great job, internet! Watch this amazing Saul Bass-inspired alt-title sequence for ‘Game of Thrones’
Now that Game of Thrones fans have yet to sit through another lengthy wait for the next season, the internet is conspiring in order to
Watch: Adam Levine makes Michael Jackson impression singing the ‘Sesame Street’ theme
If you’ll permit us to break character for some supremely shareable content: Adam Levine doing a Michael Jackson impression whilst singing the theme for Sesame Street.
Watch: Fast-foward to two years of ‘Uncanny Avengers’ so far in three-minute ‘Axis’ Primer
Only a little over a month before its slated release, Marvel has published online a primer for its upcoming major comic event Avengers & X-Men: Axis,
San Lazaro
In the occult film San Lazaro, the demons taking over its characters are only internal and untapped; one apparently does not need a soul-consuming entity in
Trailer: Alexandre Aja’s ‘The Pyramid’ Unearths Legendary Evil
We are only a few weeks from the release of the much-awaited adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel Horns, a film with which director Alexandre Aja rekindles fire
Watch: David Lynch’s Ice(d-coffee) Bucket Challenge takes an aptly Lynchian turn
Most are likely to think they have seen the best ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on the internet, but what we fail to understand is that
You can now play Bingo as you read Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami’s latest novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage has landed bookstores and readers all over the world are winding through the
George R.R. Martin is going to be more savage in killing off his characters, like it is news
The author of the series Song of Ice and Fire might be history’s first serial killer who openly does his craft and gets away with it — every
Talk Back and You’re Dead
There is but a single thread stringing together the story of Talk Back and You’re Dead, thus far the latest amongst the Wattpad-imports currently most ubiquitous
Trailer: ‘Amityville: The Awakening’ revisits a supposed-to-be unsalable estate.
Since the Lutzes were scurried away from the infamous haunted house in Long Island, New York, a handful of follow-ups and hopeful revamps have been
Wolf Creek
The smaller moments in Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek inspire liberation from the conventions of grotesque cinema: a slight, giggly yet sincere wedding of the lips; the
Diary ng Panget
The general observation for Andoy Ranay’s Diary ng Panget is that it can be viewed as a substandard Cinderella byproduct — and it is — where the youth revolt
We Need Votes! Help Make Filipino Horror Film ‘The Disturbed’ Happen!
Tyrone “Ty” Acierto, the acclaimed director of MMFF New Breed-sleeper The Grave Bandits, is trying to make his new horror film The Disturbed happen thru an online film-funding program
Barber’s Tales
For most of Jun Lana’s new film Barber’s Tales (alternatively known as Mga Kwentong Barbero), the women who live in the small rural town fraught
Ang Katiwala
Meant — rather explicitly — as a propaganda for the late President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Manuel L. Quezon, Aloy Adlawan’s Ang Katiwala (The
Les Revenants
In Les revenants (They Came Back, 2004) the threat posed by a vast river of bodies inexplicably risen from their recent deaths, is far more internal