Everything about Horns is broad: the comedy, the horror, the acting, the suspense, the romance, and the gore.  It works far too hard to please, playing to the rafters when it should be more focused on the people in the front row.  All the elements are in place for a great genre bending movie but each element...

I love horror anthologies for the same reason I love horror short story collections: they provide a quick fix for a junkie.  Horror fans like me have sat through so many movies, read so many novels, and sat through so many TV episodes that it’s nice to have a film that gives you five...

Are we ever going to get tired of zombies? I keep waiting for us to reach our zombie threshold but it doesn’t seem to be anywhere in sight.  The Walking Dead’s ratings are higher than ever, there’s a spinoff show on the way, and it seems like there’s a new zombie video game on the...

I like punk rock a whole lot. It’s the music I grew up on, it’s the music I make with Bad Mary, and it’s the music I listen to the most. While some bands have diverted from those origins, East Bay superheroes Rancid keep producing quality record after quality record. 2009’s Let the Dominoes...

Ok everyone, as you know the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer just hit the web this evening. I’m both terrified and ecstatic about the release of this film. Over the past six years Marvel has released hit after hit, building an incredible connected universe between it’s films and television shows. As Marvel’s phase 2...

The vampire is one of the most reliable movie creatures.  What zombies, werewolves, and demons lack in personality, vampires more than make up for.  They have style, charisma, and class even when giant fangs are protruding from their hideous mouths.  Well, they did anyway until Twilight and True Blood came along and sanitized them.  What those two pieces of...

Halloween is an opportune time to break out the cinematic horror goodies – either the ones that you’ve accumulated over the years or maybe just the ones you’ve just never had the time or the inclination to take a look at before. For the benefit of the Pop Chomp reading community, I have compiled my personal...

I’m in the Halloween Spirit! It could be that I’m in Washington State right now taking in the beautiful foliage and the cool, grey air; or maybe it’s Graves’ excellent series of posts about horror films! While I’m not entirely sure, my specialty is video games, so I sat and thought about the best...

In 1978, a low budget horror movie called Halloween snuck its way into theaters and changed the face of the genre forever.  It was the most successful independent film of all time when it came out, wound up on many critic’s best ten lists of that year, and is still considered one of the scariest...

I read a lot of thrillers. They’re usually an easy read because they aren’t filled with deep, meaningful prose and the best ones move at a fast pace with surprising twists and turns. You can polish off a good thriller in a night or two. Frequently though, they are somewhat hollow at their core...