Chad Collins

Last year, I wrote about the frightening, fascinating phenomenon of Halloween fan films. I watched 22 different fan films and had the pleasure of interviewing three different filmmakers who made remarkable, yet singular, pieces of Myers fan media. I…

My pawns and I had been trekking about for several in-game days when we (I) accidentally stumbled into a Griffin’s nest. I’d been playing the thief vocation, fully maxed out, thrilled with how it allowed me to nimbly maneuver around enemies and limit…

As a kid, I was obsessed with Darkness Falls. Jonathan Liebesman’s feature was a truncated, uneven hodgepodge of different horror stylings. Part slasher, part ghost story, part high concept January horror. And, well, I loved it, largely because I saw…

Sidney Prescott, for years, has risked regressing into self-parody. The first time she was targeted by two peers donning a Ghostface mask, she was almost killed. The strength of her resolve and unmatched capacity to exploit homicidal, adolescent…

After the monumental success of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to presume Hollywood was going to go all-in on dinosaurs. Sure, they might not all have the scale of Spielberg’s blockbuster classic (just look at…

I tried to die by suicide once. For readers of this site, that might not come as much of a surprise because I’ve written about it at least twice, maybe more. It was the springboard for my piece on I’m Thinking of Ending Things and the contextual…

One of my favorite things to do every year is look back at the collective horror genre and try to cull some meaningful, connective thread and expound on what it all might mean. Horror is reflective, a mirror if you will. While the task would…

More than most holiday horror outings, there’s something about the Christmas season that inspires unkempt cruelty and nihilism from filmmakers. Calvaire, Inside, and Krampus—among several others—subvert festive, jolly tradition, and punish their…

Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat is a Halloween perennial for good reason. It’s a deftly balanced mix of scares and laughs, a long-delayed project that hit every note it needed to when it finally released two years after it first premiered (and the…

Much has been made of the so-called slasher renaissance. But barring a few indie darlings, the trend has been almost exclusively of the legacy variety as long-dormant killers rising up for one final scare (with dollar signs in their eyes). It’s been…

Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a crimson-fueled nightmare. Its stark, beguiling descent into witchcraft, magic, and violent, radical femininity casts a spell all its own. Suspiria reinvents and restructures, it interrogates and dismantles. Horror…

Back in 2009, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity was something of a ghost itself. The infamous found footage movie spent years in development. A favorable festival showing, some Steven Spielberg lore, one Miramax Films Senior Executive Jason Blum (yes,…

The recent release (and $130 million worldwide weekend pull) of Five Nights at Freddy’s has reignited the longstanding debate about media properties ostensibly aimed at children. Earlier this year, we saw the same discourse slither onto social media…

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is my favorite sequel from the original timeline. Halloween III aside (because that’s an entirely different beast), Halloween 5 is the first time since the original that Michael Myers feels dangerous. While…

Over the Garden Wall remains a perennial autumnal treat. Equal parts scary and charming, this animated odyssey deserves to rank among the best of the best as standout gateway horror offerings. Inimitable in style and gorgeously Halloween-flavored,…

Lorraine is seated at the kitchen table with her son, Josh. Josh’s wife, Renai has been plagued by ghostly visions since her son’s coma, and Lorraine is there to buttress the anecdotes. She’s had unusual, frightening dreams, too, and she needs Josh…

Wes Craven was and will remain the greatest humanist horror filmmaker of our time. It’s an argument I’ve made countless times before, though it bears repeating. Craven fundamentally understood the ethos of the narrative paradigm, our capacity to…

My life is a horror movie. Just two years ago, my partner and I could grab coffee by the beach together. My hand might hold his. Our eyes might lock for longer than a passing moment. As the sun set and the tide ebbed back to the sea, we might not see…

Note: This article contains spoilers for Scream VI The Scream franchise is in the best hands possible with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett at the helm. As torchbearers for the inimitable Wes Craven’s iconic slasher franchise, they achieved…

Michael Myers is immortal. Not just in terms of his mythos or on-screen legacy, but as a character, as an icon of horror. Michael Myers is truly the perennial boogeyman. Mainstream audiences have seen as much. The oft-killed Shape returned from the…