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Release Date: February 24th, 2017 Director: Jordan Peele | MPAA Rating: R | LeavittLens Rating: 9.5/10 Throughout Hollywood history, it has often taken filmmakers multiple years–sometimes decades–to effectively hone the ability to immerse an audience into a character’s mind. The vicarious eye of film, as Jon Boorstin would term it, is one that can take […]… Continue reading Get Out — The Leavitt Lens

If you’re a horror movie fanatic like I am you must have seen this symbol tons of times. This symbol is called a pentagram, having a pentacle (the five-pointed star) enclosed in a circle. You might have seen it in horror movies, mostly while some satanic ritual is being performed. I have always associated this […]… Continue reading Things I Never Knew about Pentacles [before reading Da Vinci Code] — BookHub

The trailer has arrived for Murder Manual, the new horror film anthology starring Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke. Synopsis: Each segment of the anthology is connected and comes together to create a murder manual. Its eight tales featuring multiple classic horror tropes including zombies, masked killers, and the paranormal. Creepy, terrifying chapters from a… Continue reading Murder Manual Is Out Now — INDIE HORROR REVIEW

Unfairly resigned to silly shorthand for Blaxploitation horror, “Blacula” is essential vampire cinema that, like its tragic hero, hasn’t aged a day. It’s not hard to imagine white flight audiences at the local drive-in giggling in their station wagons when Dracula dooms Prince Mamuwalde to suffer for all eternity with an insatiable thirst for blood […]… Continue reading Shudder Sunday: Blacula (1972) — Morbidly Beautiful

I watched Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse last night…twice, and I think I can articulate what I love about this film now. The Lighthouse is a masterpiece in my eyes, the first viewing offered an atmospheric tale of two lighthouse keepers slowly going insane due to their isolation, and even as only that, it’s a brilliant […]… Continue reading Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse — Sonny Cooper

IFC’s horror movie “The Wretched” passed the $1 million mark after a month of drive-in movie theater buzz. The indie film took in $162,000 at 95 sites over the weekend. After premiering at the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival, it launched on May 1 at just 11 drive-ins, including the Mission Tiki in Montclair, Calif., […]… Continue reading ‘The Wretched’ Passes $1 Million Mark After Strong Drive-In Theater Buzz — Flower Mound, Texas News

Cast and crews are eager to return to work after they were sideline by the coronavirus pandemic, but the industry wants to ensure sets are as safe as possible. Studios in states that have allowed nonessential businesses to reopen have begun to ready their lots for production crews. The hope is that shooting can resume […]… Continue reading How movie industry execs see sets changing as filming resumes during coronavirus pandemic — COVID-19 World News

A few friends and I were looking for a budget weekend trip, so we booked two days in Krakow, Poland. After a childhood of reading books like Number the Stars and Night, and finding out student tours and transportation were relatively cheap, I finally had a chance to pay my respects and learn more about […]… Continue reading Lessons Learned at Auschwitz — Kiana Duncan

Vampire hates Summer! But Temptation was a summer setting where vampires actively hunt human. This book featured Goodnight Kiss, Goodnight Kiss 2 and a short story of The Vampire Club. via Temptation by R.L. Stine — BIBLIO LEVIOSA

Oftentimes, when attempting to convince our white colleagues, families or peers of the horror of a particular racial injustice, we ask them to put a loved one in the victim’s place. We ask of them the impossible task of placing their white child in a park with a toy gun or walking home with Skittles […]… Continue reading The Great White Myth Part 1: The Abstraction of a Simple Truth — True Alchemy