The Fourth Kind was one of the scariest things I've seen in years. I'm going out to see it again, which tells you how much I care.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Happy Samhain, everyone, if that isn't an inherent oxymoron. For those of you who expected (and were, of course, waiting for with bated breath... what...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
With Halloween just around the corner, some folks in the White House are getting into the spooky spirit. Namely, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment
Horror films work best when you realize that you cannot trust the filmmakers. But writer/director Oren Peli crafts a low-tech chiller that almost plays too fair with the audience.
Brad Balfour | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment
Questions for Lars von Trier: "You had a a researcher on misogyny in the credits. In the writing or making of this film did you learn something about misogyny in yourself, in your work?"
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment
Trick 'R Treat is a stunningly lifeless and seemingly aimless would-be horror comedy. It is a muted and rushed affair, seemingly edited without discipline and constructed without purpose.
Dan Persons | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
I Sell the Dead has pretty much nothing going for it except a neat cast, plus the visual inventiveness and sheer, audacious wit of its director, Mr. McQuaid. Fortunately, that's more than enough.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment
Drag Me to Hell is a throwback to a time, in the mid-1980s, when horror films were fun first and scary second, it's a trashy B-movie blast.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 04.12.2009 | Entertainment
What's that you say? No one cares about the story, characters, or acting? They just came to see 3D slasher killings and R-rated blood and gore? Well, fair enough.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
[Today's Hallowe'en column is in two ghastly parts -- one frightful, fingernail-chewing tale for each side of the corpse-ridden and zombified politica...
Jenna Busch | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment