Movies - THE HORROR STREAM LIVE

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 09 June 2024

Boxing Day, 1973: Outside the theaters, people are lined up around the block to see The Exorcist. Inside the movie houses, viewers are shocked and terrified, some even fainting or leaving because the film experience is too intense.

The 50th anniversary of the release of The Exorcist is a natural time to look back on the making of the horror masterpiece and the remarkable hysteria during its first run. Exorcist: Untold is a 70-minute documentary that offers a glimpse into the film’s production and the life of author/producer William Peter Blatty.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 09 June 2024

A gory throwback to video store staples of the ’80s and ’90s, SCREAMBOX Original wrestling-fueled horror-comedy Here for Blood will invade select theaters, digital, and SCREAMBOX on February 9.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 07 June 2024

Probably the most wintry film this side of The Shining, Ghostkeeper may draw comparisons to the epic Kubrick classic as it also has a remote mountain lodge, characters who are snowed in, plus associated recreational vehicles – snowcats and snowmobiles.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 05 June 2024

You open your mailbox and begin rifling through your daily mail; bills, bank statements, credit card companies, but stuck in between the crap you find a postcard. It’s from a friend, one of the wild ones. You haven’t heard from him since he made off with his Burning Man crew and decided to actually “live the dream”, off the grid, unplugged. Ripples in your friend group broadcast that he’s “lost it”. That he’s joined a cult. You never believed it…until now.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 04 June 2024

Though I’ve seen this cult classic before, it’s been quite some time, and truth be told, I didn’t recollect too much of it before going in. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death isn’t an easy movie to describe, and I’m not even sure if it’s fair to say I enjoy it, but I do think it’s a special little movie that may well be worth seeing.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 03 June 2024

Baby boomers and Gen Xers are all familiar with the sensational films of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. In those pre-CGI days, animating moving creatures was done the hard way, capturing one frame at a time and minutely moving armatured miniatures for the next split second frame. It was a painstaking process that could take months of work to create a few seconds of film. While the techniques were developed by his mentor Willis O’Brien who created the original King Kong, Harryhausen would further develop and elevate those techniques to mesmerize audiences decades later.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 02 June 2024

On February 14, 1931, the film Dracula was released, with Bela Lugosi creating one of the most famous characters and iconic roles in cinematic history, Count Dracula. This groundbreaking horror film forever changed Hollywood and international cinema.