Rob Hunter

Earth Day used to be a pretty big deal. You may not even realize that we celebrated it earlier this month, but it was unavoidable back in its early days. The first Earth Day arrived in 1970 with a strong focus on people working together to curb pollution, litter, and all kinds of ills that […]

Bring up the topic of Irish horror films, and most people probably start picturing supernatural hauntings and folklore-fueled terrors. Think the likes of Wake Wood (2009), The Canal (2014), The Hallow (2015), and Oddity (2024). Some of us, by contrast, go straight to the image of a monstrous creature “baptizing” a wannabe priest with a […]

By Rob Hunter Static Media Filmmakers have been crafting sci-fi movies since the dawn of the artform itself, and the genre has always been powered by a mashup of ideas and visuals.

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 – […]