31 Days of Fright: We Are Still Here
“Nobody knew what was under this house until it was too late!” Retro-style horror is a curious thing. Sometimes – and this is a compliment – it can play like….
Author: T. Dawson
Trevor Dawson is the Executive Editor of GAMbIT Magazine. He is a musician, an award-winning short story author, and a big fan of scotch. His work has appeared in Statement, Levels Below, Robbed of Sleep vols. 3 and 4, Amygdala, Mosaic, and Mangrove. Trevor lives in Denver, CO.
31 Days of Fright: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
“The saw is family.” How would you even begin to make a sequel to a document as perfect as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Why would you even try? There’s a….
31 Days of Fright: Session 9
“It’s going to get ugly.” If I were to describe Session 9 to you, it would sound like the most insipid montage of cliches: a horror movie set in a….
31 Days of Fright: Castle Freak
“There’s somebody in the castle!” Even for a Stuart Gordon film, Castle Freak is a tough watch. Gordon was a director renowned for his unhinged excess – look no further….
31 Days of Fright: Emelie
“Sometimes it’s okay to destroy something for fun.” Emelie, like its title character, is a nasty, insidious thing. At its best, Michael Thelin’s film is unsettling and deeply uncomfortable, producing….
31 Days of Fright: Suspiria (2018)
“I am she.” There are some movies that are generally considered too sacrosanct to remake. This is why we’re never getting a Casablanca with Zac Efron, and why The Social….
31 Days of Fright: Suspiria
“Hell is behind that door!” A few years back, when reviewing the wretched, incompetent Friday the 13th, I wondered if a movie can be considered a classic if it isn’t….
31 Days of Fright: Frozen
“You’re gonna be okay, baby. You’re gonna be okay.” The setup for Adam Green’s Frozen is a horror lover’s dream: two snowboarders and one skier, trying to fit in one….
31 Days of Fright: Phantasm
“You play a good game, boy, but the game is over. Now you die.” Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm is a lot of things. It’s incoherently plotted, poorly edited, the acting is….
31 Days of Fright starts tomorrow!
I know, I know. I’ve screwed this up the past couple times I’ve tried to do it. But thanks to this stupid pandemic, I got laid off, so now I’ve….
Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways is a puzzling, captivating masterwork
By age 79, most musicians are either dead, retired, or content to just play the hits. Most musicians are not Bob Dylan. Not only is he still producing new material,….
The Quarantine Playlist: Apocalypto
Every criticism of Mel Gibson as a person is valid. He’s racist, homophobic, sexist, and anti-Semitic. By any conceivable metric, he is a piece of shit. This isn’t the place….