halloween

The Madness Returns: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Poster

In August David Blue Garcia was hired to replace Andy and Ryan Tohill in the directing seat of Texas Chainsaw Massacre after one week of filming because of creative differences. The production then went quiet but now the first poster has arrived. [...]

October 20, 2020

Behind The Scenes Photograph From HALLOWEEN Shows The Shape In The Kitchen

The success of John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 inspired a slew of imitators (and sequels) throughout the 1980’s, but none would come close to matching the genius of Carpenter’s taut film. With very little gore, the film relies on [...]

October 17, 2020

25 Great Horror Movies To Watch This October

October is the month where people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies in the lead-up to Halloween. Movies In Focus has put together a list of 25 great horror movies. Some of them are classics films and others [...]

October 4, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Bryan Bertino’s THE STRANGERS Is A Modern Horror Classic & Second Sight Films Gives It The Release It Deserves

Writer-director Bryan Bertino made a hugely impressive and incredibly assured directorial debut with The Strangers. A home invasion horror, the 2008 film is loaded with a building tension and it’s definitely not one for the faint-hearted. [...]

September 30, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Douglas Schulze’s DARK FIELDS

We live in a world where horror films are seen as an inexpensive and simple product for filmmakers to make and market – and because of this, the quality of such entertainment is often questionable at best. What director Douglas Schulze has managed [...]

September 22, 2020

Who Goes There? Do We Need A New Version Of THE THING From John Carpenter & Blumhouse?

The word on the street is that Blumhouse Productions and the mighty John Carpenter are working on reboot of Carpenter’s classic 1982 horror The Thing. Variety is reporting that the film is in the very early stages and there are [...]

August 25, 2020

HALLOWEEN KILLS Delayed Until October 2021 – Watch The First Teaser Trailer

The good news – here’s the new teaser for David Gordon Green‘s Halloween Kills. The bad news is that anyone excited about the Halloween sequel is going to be disappointed because it has now been delayed a full year due to the [...]

July 9, 2020

John Carpenter’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

Released in 1976, Assault On Precinct 13 was John Carpenter’s second feature film after the low budget science fiction film Dark Star. The film is a homage to the great Howard Hawks and it’s a riff’s on the director’s 1959 [...]

June 29, 2020

Behind The Scenes: Hitchcock Directs The Infamous PSYCHO Shower Scene

It’s no understatement to claim that Alfred Hitchcock is one of cinema’s greatest directors. Some might argue that Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho is a thriller, but in actuality it is a serious piece of horror cinema. Bernard [...]

May 23, 2020

Road To Hell: Halloween’s David Gordon Green Taking HELLRAISER To HBO

Horrormeister Clive Barker‘s Hellraiser continues to impress more than thirty years on. Barker’s own 1987 adaptation of his novella The Hellbound Heart offers-up a baroque gothic horror wrapped within the confines of a warped family [...]

April 28, 2020

Notebook Reviews: HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER

Steve Miner – 1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is the seventh entry in the Halloween franchise. Steve Miner’s film lacks the suspense of John Carpenter‘s 1978 original, but it’s good to see Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie [...]

March 27, 2020

Blu-ray Review: CRAWL Delivers Everything You Want From A Horror/Thriller

There are really only two golden rules for making a good horror movie. One: have characters that you care about. Two: Keep the plot simple. That’s all you need in order to craft a horror which resonates. That’s why films like Halloween and The [...]

December 16, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Jamie Lee Curtis Is The Final Girl In 1980 Slasher Horror PROM NIGHT

The box office success of John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 led to a slew of slasher films throughout the 1980s. Paul Lynch’s Prom Night is probably one of the first to follow in the heels of Carpenter’s classic. Like Halloween, Prom Night [...]

November 28, 2019

Review: Michael Myer’s Returns To Haddonfield In David Gordon Green’s Follow-Up To John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN

John Carpenter’s Halloween is as near to perfect as any slasher film can be and the 1978 horror is a masterful exercise in suspense, augmented by come exceptional camera work (the opening is still stunning) and a wonderful score. A multitude of [...]

October 27, 2018

Review: John Carpenter’s THE FOG Is A Classic Ghost Story

After taking a break from horror to make Elvis in 1979, John Carpenter returned to the genre with The Fog, an atmospheric ghost story set in the fictional Californian town of Antonio Bay. When The Fog starts rolling-in, so does the crew of [...]

October 16, 2018

Review: John Carpenter’s Horror Classic HALLOWEEN Is Still Great 40 Years Later

The horror genre can often (rightfully) be maligned. Many of the films within the genre are cheap exploitation films, whose filmmakers care more about monetary return than crafting a great movie. However, John Carpenter constructed an instant [...]

October 3, 2018

Jamie Lee Curtis Is Ready To Protect In The Second HALLOWEEN Trailer

Halloween is nearly here. Jame Lee Cutis is back as Laurie Strode in David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot/sequel/continuation – which drops on 18 October. Movies In Focus, a long-term John Carpenter fan (the Master Od Horror produces [...]

September 5, 2018

DVD Review: JACKALS Is Dark, Bloody And Very Entertaining

With an creepy opening ripped straight from John Carpenter’s Halloween (with a touch of Michael Mann’s Manhunter), Jackals gets off to a good start. This home invasion/siege movie gives you everything you could want from a genre film – [...]

June 10, 2018

It’s Time to Go Back To Haddonfield: New HALLOWEEN Trailer Is Here – And It Rocks

The Halloween franchise has had a long and convoluted history, but now David Gordon Green and Danny McBride have cleared the board and reset to near zero (with the help of Jason Blum and John Carpenter). Halloween 2018 pitches itself as the true [...]

June 9, 2018

New HALLOWEEN Poster; John Carpenter Confirmed For Score

The poster for the David Gordon Green’s Halloween sequel has dropped – and it shows a familiar face. Old Michael Myers is back to bring terror to the leafy streets of Haddonfield, Illinois and it has been confined that John Carpenter [...]

April 21, 2018

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