Horror Movies

Silent House briefly ups the horror-film ante

The Innkeepers director Ti West doesn't try to be subversive, really

This is what happens when you go into the basement of an old haunted hotel in New England.At only 31 years old, filmmaker Ti West has quickly made a name for himself by challenging audience expectations and assumptions about the horror film genre with movies like 2009's the House of the Devil. His l ... More >>

The ten best exorcism movies

With the release of The Devil Inside, out Friday, the cinema gods are taking a moment to remind all of us that religion is scary -- It's all higher powers and judgments and abductions by beings of light and women turning into salt and beings of pure good offset by beings of pure evil, and all of tha ... More >>

Reader: Tim Tebow's incredible win streak like a pigskin version of Rosemary's Baby

Tim Tebow.​Our post about the Broncos' latest inexplicable Tim Tebow-led victory, this time over the Vikings, inspired one reader to wonder, tongue-in-cheek style, if there isn't something unholy about all the miracles. Horror-movie buffs, take note.

A few memorable quotes from last night's WFTDA roller derby championships

​Maybe it's because the skaters have names like Psycho Babble and Britches n' Hose, but the running commentary provided by roller derby announcers can at times sound like narration for an X-rated movie or a horror flick. Yesterday's bout between Denver's Rocky Mountain Rollergirls and the Nash ... More >>

It's Halloween! Take a shining to the Stanley Hotel.

​The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is a lovely old place. Built in the early 1900s at the mouth of what is now Rocky Mountain National Park from wood salvaged from the Bear Lake burn of 1900, it was best-known then for the Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered automobile invented by hotel owner Freel ... More >>

Be afraid! Be very afraid! Evil children are taking over the DPL

​If you're looking to get your fix of cinematic terror but are facing a frightening shortage of cash, the current Fresh City Life film series at the Central Denver Public Library, "The Kids Are Not Alright," is a real treat. The Tuesday night films, all scary movies featuring evil children, ar ... More >>

Aberrant

Complete Grindworks 2010
Criminal Attack Records

Mile High Horror Film Festival adds music component to this year's festivities at Bar Bar

The second Mile High Horror Film Festival is upon us, and in an effort to make it even bigger and badder, Timothy Shultz and company added a music showcase to the event at Bar Bar this Friday, October 7. "This is its own little entity to promote the festival," says event manager Melinda Piché. "Bec ... More >>

Miles of Horror

The second Mile High Horror Film Festival is upon us, and in an effort to make it even bigger and badder, Timothy Shultz and company added a music showcase to the event at Bar Bar this Friday, October 7. "This is its own little entity to promote the festival," says event manager Melinda Piché. "Bec ... More >>

Mile High Horror Film Festival will be full of the fright stuff

What's the scariest thing about Colorado? The haunted mountain resorts? The cemeteries-turned-city parks? The escort-loving, meth-using pastors? All of those may soon be trumped by the second annual Mile High Horror Film Festival, which takes over the Tivoli Starz Film Center October 7 through Octob ... More >>

Nancy Boy: Denver FilmCenter's Keith Garcia gets A Nightmare On Elm Street tattoo

Keith & Nancy.​When we chatted with Keith Garcia, Denver FilmCenter's Programming Manager, prior to last week's showing of I Am Nancy, he told us a secret: Garcia promised that in honor of the film's star, Heather Langenkamp -- who came out to Denver for the screening to talk about her role as ... More >>

Slashers and survivors: Horror's top 5 "final girls"

Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween​The "final girl" -- one of horror film's best-known genre conventions -- is the virginal and ostensibly pure heroine who either kills the monster, or at least lives to see the end of the movie. Some scholars, including Carol J. Clover (in her book, Men, Women and ... More >>

Heather Langenkamp thrice kicked Freddy Krueger's ass, but remains a second-class citizen

Freddy doesn't know that he's got it coming.​One of the horror-film genre's most iconic heroines, Heather Langenkamp (who played Nancy Thompson in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) kicked Freddy Kreuger's ass not once but three times. We spoke with the actor, who is in town for Denver Film ... More >>

And Justice for Nancy

Freddy doesn't know that he's got it coming.​One of the horror-film genre's most iconic heroines, Heather Langenkamp (who played Nancy Thompson in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) kicked Freddy Kreuger's ass not once but three times. We spoke with the actor, who is in town for Denver Film ... More >>

Tyrannosaurus Sex

Tyrannosaurus Sex Tape
Self-released

Win a signed movie poster for John Carpenter's The Ward

Full-size poster below!​In the free stuff file of Show and Tell today, we have a quick contest for fans of horror movies. We have five movie posters for The Ward, directed by legendary Halloween director John Carpenter. All five posters are signed by Carpenter, hopefully in blood, although we' ... More >>

Echo Beds

High Expectations From the Lowest Common Denominator
Self-released

Jonathan Tiersten & Ten Tiers

We'll See
Edward Records

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Five great actors that phoned in iconic roles for terrible sequels

This is the smug grin you make when you no longer give a shit.​Johnny Depp gotta eat. And pay his mortgage. And Disney pays very well. Maybe that explains why he looks so thoroughly bored in the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, opening tomorrow. Captain Jack Sparrow was endeari ... More >>

Comment of the day: Prove it

​The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of the most controversial horror movies ever made -- so controversial, in fact, that it was banned for many years in several countries. That statement wasn't really the point of my rant the other day about the upcoming remake of Texas in 3D, which ... More >>

Why 3D will ruin The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, just like it ruins everything

​When it came out in 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of the most violent movies ever made -- so violent it was actually banned in several countries -- but that's not what makes it so great. In fact, by today's CG-enhanced standards, it pretty tame. A long shot of a dude getting hit b ... More >>

Scare Tactics: The top five most horrifying acting performances by musicians

​Apparently Jack Osbourne (son of Ozzy) is going to appear in a new horror film due to be released in...wait, we don't care. The news did, however, spark our interest enough to take a look at what other rockers have squandered their reputation broadened their horizons by acting in horror movie ... More >>

Scream 4 is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​It's been fifteen years since Scream came along and changed the whole horror movie paradigm with its self-awareness, satirizing the cliches of a genre then in the throes of death by indifference and employing them as plot devices, in the process pretty much single-handedly breathing life back ... More >>

Ghost hunt! A weekend at the Stanley Hotel passes without haunting

Well, it looks pretty ominous.​It was partially by coincidence and partly by design that the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining had just started rolling when we flipped on the TV Saturday night in our room at the Stanley Hotel; the movie, of course, is based on Stephen King's nov ... More >>

The Roommate is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​There's no place like home. It's where you wind down, where you keep your stuff, where you can be away from the world and all the pressures that come with it -- it's the most intensely personal location in anyone's life, the ultimate refuge. The best horror movies play off that idea, either t ... More >>

Ten great Japanese horror movies

​This list might have just as easily been titled Ten great Japanese horror movies in the vein of Kuroneko, since we're only dealing with a certain type of horror film here. Kuroneko, which premiers at the Denver FilmCenter on Friday, is a more subdued, fantasy-driven horror than the type peopl ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, November 12-14, 2010

​The holidays are getting closer every week, but for those of us that aren't interested in shopping yet, there's still plenty to do on the cheap. Actually, you can even go shopping this weekend if you'd like to hit up the DIY goods fair, but if the words "party" and "drunk" are more your thing ... More >>

Midnight Maniac

​The holidays are getting closer every week, but for those of us that aren't interested in shopping yet, there's still plenty to do on the cheap. Actually, you can even go shopping this weekend if you'd like to hit up the DIY goods fair, but if the words "party" and "drunk" are more your thing ... More >>

Music for a Psycho

​The holidays are getting closer every week, but for those of us that aren't interested in shopping yet, there's still plenty to do on the cheap. Actually, you can even go shopping this weekend if you'd like to hit up the DIY goods fair, but if the words "party" and "drunk" are more your thing ... More >>

Check, please: Rack & Rye's happy hour falls abysmally short

​Happy Place: Rack & Rye Gastropub, 1320 15th Street, 720-620-4920 The Hours: Monday through Saturday, from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $4 house wine and cocktails; $2-11 draft beers and pitchers; $5 Washington caramel apple shooters; $2-4 small plates What did we think? Flip the page. The Digs ... More >>

More Gore!

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OH, THE HORROR!

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Flick Pick

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Bong Joon-ho lets his freak flag fly

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Cinema on the Edge

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The Avenue Theater's Die! Mommy Die! is the perfect summer camp

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Flick Pick

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Dead Scary Fun

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St. Mark's in the Dark

Watch weekly horror movies in the basement.