Horror in Frame: Alexandre Ottoni (The Flesh Itself)Horror in Frame: Alexandre Ottoni (The Flesh Itself)
The script writer behind one of Fantastic Fest's best entries discuss everything about how the little indie came to be. [...]
The script writer behind one of Fantastic Fest's best entries discuss everything about how the little indie came to be. [...]
Spider One’s Big Baby makes a case for one of the year’s best slashers. For slasher fans of the classic ’80s style, the indie film perfectly captures the spirit and[...]
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and[...]
Influencer Horror is all the rage these days. Especially on the indie circuit, the subgenre is easy to tap into and exploit for some good frights. And who doesn’t love[...]
Paul Etheredge changed the game with Hellbent, the first gay slasher. While it may have been overlooked or dismissed in the early 2000s, it has only grown in popularity over[...]
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and[...]
While everyone’s obsessed with Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (for good reason!), folks are seriously sleeping on Daniel J. Phillips’ Diabolic—or at least severely underappreciating the work. In[...]
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and[...]
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums,[...]
If you spend any amount of time on TikTok, specifically, you’ll likely stumble across Tradwife-Tok. It’s a very real thing—women teaching their viewers how to be a tradwife, or teaching[...]
Scary muppets wasn’t something I really needed until I saw The Fuzzies (review) earlier this year. With his new short film, Tasty Bones, writer/director Ronald Short keeps the frightening, fuzzy[...]
Three years ago, I wrote a piece for Flood detailing the Slasher Renaissance. I never expected how much the subgenre would balloon out since then. Today, slashers are all the[...]
During the ongoing Slasher Renaissance, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of knockoffs and retreads. Eric Huskisson and P.J. Starks’ New Fears Eve feels both fresh and familiar.[...]
Surrealist horror takes monstrous shape in Justin Streichman and Gustine Füdickar’s Lady Puritan. It’s a film that injects a David Lynch sensibility directly into the veins. And that’s no easy[...]
Horror has a serious horror/musical problem. Where are all the horror musicals?!? In a genre that has such foundational films as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Little Shop of[...]