Monster Mashup: Superman vs. Dracula
Superman #120 Written by Jeph Loeb and Geoff Johns Art by Ian Churchill May 2002 DC Comics Unlike Marvel, with its successful Tomb of Dracula series, DC never integrated a specific iteration of...
View ArticleHow to Revive a Slasher Villain ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child’
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Written by Leslie Bohem Directed by Stephen Hopkins 1989 USA The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise has nine films spread across three timelines (granted,...
View ArticleWhy Tim Burton’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ is Kind of Terrible
I spent my Halloween attending the tale of Sweeney Todd. Though I did go out later (I’m not a total shut-in), most of my day consisted of watching four versions of the Stephen Sondheim’s razor sharp...
View ArticleChildhood Film Fascinations That Became All-Time Favorites
In celebration of Sound on Sight’s 7th anniversary, writers were asked to come up with articles that present their childhood favorites in the realm of films, TV shows, books or games. I chose films...
View ArticleRyan Murphy’s ‘Scream Queens’ casts Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts
Ryan Murphy’s horror-comedy anthology series on Fox, Scream Queens, has cast its first two major leads. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis have been cast, but...
View Article‘Halloween Returns’ in the works from ‘Saw’ writers
Michael Myers is back from the dead yet again, with another Halloween sequel/reboot in the horror franchise reportedly planned from Dimension and The Weinstein Company. Moviehole first broke the news...
View ArticleHow Wes Craven Taught Me to Love Horror
When I was a kid, I was taught that horror movies were things to be avoided; Violent, sadistic, even satanic items made by sick people. Which of course only made them more intriguing. On our trips to...
View Article10 Commonly Overlooked Horror Films Worth Seeing
When I was a kid, I used to love a scary movie. I remember catching the original The Haunting (1963) one night on Channel 9’s Million Dollar Movie when I was home alone. Before it was over, I had...
View ArticleThe Things That Make Gamers Scream
Horror in video games is not the same as horror in books or movies. There’s a certain artistic realism to horror in games that makes players more immersed in the nightmare the developer creates. In...
View Article120 Essential Horror Scenes Part 6: Stalkings
Horror films are built on our voyeuristic impulses. Our desire to witness or experience the obscene, the taboo, and the grotesque draws us into films about crazed killers or unseen forces. We don’t...
View ArticleHow ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ Became the Newest, Most Unlikely, Halloween Tradition
The dream came true on October 28th, 2013 at Los Angeles’s Egyptian Theater, where the 2013 Beyond Fest was being held. Trick ‘r Treat (2007) was appropriately closing out the evening, but the...
View ArticleInterview with ‘Tommy’ Artist Juan Navarro
Juan Navarro is an artist and co-founder of the small press indie comic book company Creature Entertainment located in Miami, Florida. He writes the supernatural crime drama Rez and draws the...
View Article200 Greatest Horror Films (20-11)
– 20. The Innocents Directed by Jack Clayton Written by William Archibald and Truman Capote UK, 1961 Genre: Hauntings The Innocents, which was co-written by Truman Capote, is the first of many screen...
View Article120 Essential Horror Scenes Part 10: Legends & Omens
Almost every horror movie stops for a moment of exposition that sets up or explains the horrors that await or that have been endured. These are the scenes where directors can either conjure their inner...
View ArticleThis Podcast Came From the Moon #15
All Hallows’ Eve is upon us once more, and with it all things spooky. The chills and thrills have even made their way in to Destiny in the way of a two week even, Festival of the Lost. Listen to...
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