Rob Hunter

This month marks the 45th anniversary of 1981’s The Burning, a summer camp slasher made to cash in on the previous year’s success of Friday the 13th. The film was critically drubbed but generally well-received by horror fans, and it’s only grown in its reputation since. The talent roster on the film is pretty remarkable […]

Some fools call them "lesser" films, but Imprint gives them all the love anyway.

By Rob Hunter Static Media Alternate history films are a very specific subset of science fiction cinema.

By Rob Hunter Paramount Pictures When today's audiences, particularly the kids who just don't know any better, think about

Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later remains a thrilling, punk rock slice of horror, and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later, is better than its reputation suggests. Fans waited a long time for a third entry, and it arrived last year to critical and commercial acclaim – but I’m not a fan. I’m in the minority, I […]

It’s a rare but understood truth that the peak entry in the shark attack subgenre came at the very beginning with Steven Spielberg’s 1975 summer blockbuster, Jaws. That’s not the way it usually works, but while Spielberg’s film was immediately chased by copycats and knockoffs – some of which are a lot of fun – […]

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has stood the test of time thanks to both its own merits and the strength of the Universal horror films that adapted it and its monstrous creation to the screen. The novel’s legacy also endures through the hundreds, if not thousands, of other works of art riffing on the core concept of […]