Eric Havens, Author at Downright Creepy

Evil Dead is a legacy. There is no argument against this. Five films, a television series, a video game, and...

The term ‘style over substance’ has been used as an insult for a long time, but why? Especially in a...

There are moments in horror cinematic history where the zeitgeist is appended or changed completely. The horror that comes after...

Halloween Ends, the final entry in the Halloween trilogy helmed by David Gordon Green, is nothing short of labyrinthian. From...

Horror is a cathartic genre of film. It can explore, present, and release fear, anxiety, stress through all sorts of...

Film is an art that has been necessarily monetized. While the world of economy and markets demand that all major...

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ the latest film by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, is exactly that. This film approaches...

When discussing ‘Fresh’, the new film by director Mimi Cave and writer Lauryn Kahn, is it important to establish how...

Can you ever really know someone? Can you ever really break through the civilized and social presentations each person puts...

The structure of a fairy tale and the structure of a horror film are not as oppositional as it would...

‘Halloween Kills’ is bold. It isn’t safe. It isn’t expected. While ‘Halloween’ (2018) took the cherished characters and the overall...

What made the original ‘The Slumberparty Massacre’ so special, and initially misunderstood, was the interlacing of feminist themes within a...