Chad Collins

Wind Chill, for all intents and purposes, accomplished exactly what it was meant to when released back in 2007. Given a limited release in the United States before being dumped into a pile of similar genre shovelware, it had a cool poster and a nice…

Bad horror movies have a way of sinking their claws into an audience. They’re like the hooks from the Lament Configuration. No matter how painful, how poorly produced, the pleasures are transcendent, unmatched by any number of arguably better horror…

Happy 20th birthday, FeardotCom! I was nearly scared to death the first time I watched director William Malone’s FeardotCom. I was in second grade, and to commemorate my brothers and me getting Pokémon Sapphire for the Game Boy Advance, my mom…

Anyone else scared of snakes? Sara Mornell killed a giant python and all she got was a stupid t-shirt. Richard Clabaugh’s Python has the enviable honor of just two critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, both negative, and over 5,000 audience scores, the…

Hell might be a teenage girl, but an evening with Jennifer's Body is heaven. Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body rocks. If you don’t agree, you’re lime green Jell-O and you can’t even admit it to yourself. Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body was unfairly maligned at…

'Darkness Falls' is a time capsule of early aughts scares. In many ways, Darkness Falls doesn’t even feel like a real movie. It’s some kind of Novocaine-induced dream, a splotchy, haphazard assemblage of disparate parts that suggests a movie without…

A calvaire, or calvary, is a kind of monumental, public Christian cross, erected in the wilderness, nestled against the woods, often—though not always—encased in an open shrine. There are typically three crosses– that of Jesus Christ and two for both…

Among the pantheon of great horror subgenres, Thanksgiving is more often than not shafted. Like a plate of leftovers for some sixth cousin thrice removed, it’s an almost unwelcome holiday setting. It has to be, given just how few horror movies take…

The Nicole Kidman-led 'The Invasion' might be rotten online, but in retrospect, it's a chilling remake that deserves another look. Horror movies are, almost by their very nature, polarizing. It’s an expectation at this point that, beyond a microcosm…

In July and October of last year, I highlighted five “rotten” contemporary horror movies I genuinely enjoyed. Rotten, of course, is a misnomer. Aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes might consider them flops– and some of them have scored almost…

If you know anything about me as a horror fan, it’s that I champion the underdog. While I certainly love the most acclaimed and successful genre entries, both indie and theatrical, I have a soft, mushy spot in my heart for those horror movies that…

Things are kind of rotten right now. The general state of the, well, world doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, and even the most optimistic of outlooks suggest that things will stay rough, and perhaps grow considerably rougher in the weeks and months…