He's extensively covered several film festivals including Sundance, Toronto, New York, SXSW, Fantasia, and Tribeca. He's a member of the LGBTQ critics guild GALECA. He loves slasher movies and Fassbinder and you can follow him on Twitter at @JAMNPP....
Izzy Von’s Sequel, 'I Collect Vile Things', Is Thought-Provoking Exercise In Brutal Horror Tuesday, April 22, 2025 Posted byDamascus Mincemeyer Books We’re all haunted by the past. Regrets and failings, the near-misses and might-have-beens. The trauma of abuse, too, whether it be ...
Directed by Gerard Johnstone, M3GAN not only boasted sensationally scary sequences that scratch that evil-kid itch, but also a biting sense of humor that had us rooting for this femme slasher, whether she was whispering pop songs, terrorizing a child bully, or threatening this film's ...
(Okay also the black goo/meaning of life stuff is a story element that fights against the format of a “claustrophobic slasher house” horror, as both Prometheus and Covenant discovered, and Ian Holm saying it’s a miracle cure isn’t enough to fix that here.) (I wanted moments of silen...
recast as a psychopath in a head-brace), casting decisions emblematic of a wider wedding of tones,Scream Queensfeels fresher and more focused than any of his previous work. A love letter to the slasher genre, or rather the very worst of the slasher genre, it’s shrill, schlocky and stupi...
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This is steamy -- and smart, too. 'April Fool's Day': This Mostly Forgotten 1986 Slasher Movie Walked So 'Scream' And 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Could Run By Jesse Hassenger April 1, 2025, 8:00 a.m. ET In the era of mid-'80s slasher saturation, the joke was mostly on the aud...
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Screambecame such a seismic pop cultural juggernaut that it quickly spawned its own spoof (and from the same distribution company, no less). The Wayans brothers’Scary Movie(which wasScream’s working title) sent up the meta slasher movie (which was, in its own way, a send up of classic...