When I was a kid, I never got why the Borg were bad guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I mean, I understood that, within the context of the show, they were essentially space-zombies transformed entire races to join them on their endless quest across the universe, but, I never got why the writers would give them villainous motivations. They were part man, part robot.
Read MoreSarah Habel (2017) #audio
Sarah Habel isn't a household name just yet, but with a slew of notable films under her belt, it's obvious she knows what she's doing. Lately, Sarah has made the most of her face time on the hit CW series, Riverdale, but it wasn't until I saw her forthcoming feature, Atomica, that I was absolutely sold. Riverdale is a modern retelling of the classic comic, Archie.
Read MoreTami Stronach (2017) #audio
Growing up, I wasn't really one of the kids that was obsessed with The NeverEnding story. I mean, I had seen it, multiple times, but it wasn't the first thing I'd grab off the shelf when digging through our hefty VHS collection. So, to prepare for this interview I figured it was time to give TNS another shot, thirty-three years later seems fair enough, right?
Read MoreAndrea Subissati (2017) #WiHM
To bring our first Women in Horror Month Celebration to a close, CineDump is proud to present Andrea Subissati. Now Editor in Chief at Rue Morgue magazine, Subissati’s roots in horror go back to a scholarly origin. While many critics and academics have long maligned horror movies for their violence, sexuality, and the uncomfortable mixing of those two, Subissati looks at how horror movies are often a comment on our world.
Read MoreAlex West (2017) #WiHM
When it comes to reputation, horror… well, horror isn’t exactly the class president. When I was a sophomore in high school, my English class was assigned an argumentative essay. I had yet to become the massive horror aficionado that I am today, but, for whatever reason, I chose to argue that horror films had just as much artistic merit and social conscience as “real movies.”
Read MoreHannah Neurotica (2017) #WiHM
Without Hannah Neurotica, there’d be no Women in Horror Month. That’s not hyperbole, though it may sound like it. The fact of the matter is, though, that the movement can be traced to the efforts of one enterprising young woman in the early days of the 2010s who looked out at a horror landscape dotted with so many female bodies, yet far too many women responsible for putting those bodies there; so it was that Ax Wound Magazine was born, and with it, the entire ethos that would become the Women in Horror Month movement.
Read MoreNickyXX (2017) #WiHM
In the Creepypasta kingdom, NickyXX reigns supreme. It was a cold January afternoon when I first made her acquaintance, riding shotgun on the road to Dallas, during one of those peculiar Texas winters when the weather shifts from balmy to arctic in the blink of an eye and tropical sunrises give way to gray, frozen dusks. Pennie and I were en route to a business function, and to kill the time during the four-hour slog—made even less interesting than usual by the endless vistas of frozen, grey grass and naked trees—I googled “best Creepypastas of the year.”
Read MoreCK Walker (2017) #WiHM
Hey, True Detective fans—did the resolution of Season 1 leave you cold? Disappointed in the reveal of the King in Yellow and the non-reveal of the evil cult’s machinations? Upset that you invested that much time into something for so little a payoff?
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