By Steve Newton Scream Factory, the horror arm of the Shout! Factory home video and music company, is releasing a collector's edition Blu-ray of terror titan Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs today. Bonus features include: Audio Commentary With Writer/Director Wes Craven Audio Commentary With Actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen And Yan Birch House Mother … Continue reading Wes Craven’s 1991 horror hoot The People Under the Stairs gets collectible Blu-ray release today
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The Donnas love horror, wish Freddie Krueger would Spend the Night
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON OCT. 24, 2002 By Steve Newton When yours truly hooks up via cell with Donnas vocalist Brett Anderson, she’s in the band’s bus as it winds through the Colorado mountains en route to Salt Lake City and the first of four shows with New York City hotshots the Strokes. It’s movie time, … Continue reading The Donnas love horror, wish Freddie Krueger would Spend the Night
Meeting the men behind Freddy Krueger inside Wes Craven’s Nightmare Cafe
During my 13 years as a correspondent for Fangoria magazine I enthusiastically covered the horror beat in Vancouver, visiting the sets of such destined-to-be-awful films as Halloween: Resurrection and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. But it wasn't just big-screen projects that I wrote about. If there was a horror-related TV series (Poltergeist: The … Continue reading Meeting the men behind Freddy Krueger inside Wes Craven’s Nightmare Cafe
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 is a visual rollercoaster ride that is more fun than frightening
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON AUG. 25, 1989 By Steve Newton In the original Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger stole the show. As the new face of evil, Robert Englund's character was mean and menacing, and writer/director Wes Craven played up the unique look and style of Krueger in a film that few people expected to … Continue reading A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 is a visual rollercoaster ride that is more fun than frightening
Horror review: They
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON DEC. 5, 2002 By Steve Newton The makers of They thought that by throwing the name of horror master Wes Craven around—as in “Wes Craven Presents They”—they would garner interest in the film from the millions of moviegoers who made the Craven-created Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream series so successful. But … Continue reading Horror review: They
Horror review: The People Under the Stairs
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, NOV. 7, 1991 By Steve Newton Since blasting onto the horror scene in 1972 with the crude and shocking Last House on the Left, Wes Craven has had a few hits (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes), a few misses (Deadly Friend, The Hills Have Eyes … Continue reading Horror review: The People Under the Stairs
Horror review: House at the End of the Street
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, SEPT. 21, 2012 At the age of 20, Jennifer Lawrence became the second youngest woman ever nominated for a best-actress Oscar for her work in the bleak 2010 thriller Winter’s Bone. Two years later she starred in The Hunger Games, one of the highest-grossing movies ever. Here’s hoping that the gifted young actress’s … Continue reading Horror review: House at the End of the Street
Horror review: Scream 4
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, APRIL 13, 2011 By Steve Newton Compared to director Wes Craven’s previous horror outing, last year’s unforgivably awful My Soul to Take, Scream 4 is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Compared to anything halfway decent, it doesn’t come off as quite so special, but it’s still a fun, fast-paced homage … Continue reading Horror review: Scream 4
Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take could be his worst film ever
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON OCT. 12, 2010 By Steve Newton For his latest horror outing, writer-director Wes Craven tried to inject elements from his two best slasher flicks, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, but something went terribly wrong along the way. What he wound up with was a witless stab-the-teen time-waster that could be his worst film … Continue reading Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take could be his worst film ever
Horror review: A Nightmare on Elm Street
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, APRIL 30, 2010 I remember seeing the original A Nightmare on Elm Street when it was released in 1984 and thinking it was pretty decent as far as slasher flicks go. Its FX–heavy death scenes were a lot more inventive than the stalk ’n’ stab routine that defined most ’80s body-count films, and … Continue reading Horror review: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Horror review: The Hills Have Eyes 2
How much political allegory can you take while watching a mutant chop the forearm off a guy, then use it to wave bye-bye to him?
Alexandre Aja’s The Hills Have Eyes is one of the most engrossing Hollywood shockers ever made
Horror director Wes Craven has produced a remake of his 1977 cult fave that is a tour-de-force of terror and suspense.
High Tension director Alexandre Aja tackles Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MARCH 9, 2006 By Steve Newton The French are famous for a lot of things, but making horror movies isn't one of them. Just try to name one French fright flick that has caught your attention lately-besides Alexandre Aja's terrifying 2003 effort, High Tension. As Aja explains on the line from L.A., … Continue reading High Tension director Alexandre Aja tackles Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes