Netflix’s ‘The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping’ Offers Disturbing Deep Dive into a Destructive Institution [Review]

Katherine Kubler’s harrowing three-part documentary tells a suffocating survivor story that morphs into a terrifying takedown on America’s corrupt behavior modification boarding school business. “They tried to murder children’s souls here.” Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo plays a recurring role as a beacon of escapism in The Program, Netflix’s three-part true-crime documentary, as […]

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The Tragedy Hiding in Plain Sight in Gus Van Sant’s ‘Elephant’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

The Columbine Movie It’s been a month of vampires, slugs, and biddies with episodes on The Hunger, Night of the Creeps and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? This week, however, Trace and I are getting serious as we tackle gun violence, school shootings, and queerness in gay director Gus Van Sant‘s enthralling film, Elephant […]

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Scarier Than Fiction: Six Spooky Documentaries Horror Fans Should Watch

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it’s often scarier as well. After all, it’s not unusual for real life mysteries and deaths to leave Hollywood in the dust when it comes to producing genuine fear. With that in mind, we’ve previously published a couple of lists celebrating some of the scariest documentaries ever made. […]

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Documentary ‘Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster’ Finally Releasing This Halloween Season [Trailer]

One of the all-time great horror legends gets his own documentary with the upcoming Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster, and it’s finally on the way this year. Deadline reports today that Shout! Studios and Abramorama have joined forces for the North American rights to the documentary, with a limited theatrical run on September 17. Shout! […]

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[Review] ‘Hail to the Deadites’ Documentary Pays Tribute to the ‘Evil Dead’ Franchise’s Most Ardent Fandom

True to its name, a documentary documents a subject and provides an examination of it in the process. Horror documentaries usually offer insight, analysis, and context for various aspects of the genre, either on a broad or niche scale. Hail to the Deadites doesn’t seek to provide any new details or analysis of the Evil Dead franchise but instead […]

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