The Italians know how to kill people in imaginative ways. Of course, I’m referring to their rich horror film history that started with I Vampiri, Italy’s first horror film, in 1957, directed by Riccardo Freda; […]
LET JASON BUILD A HOUSE AGAIN
Looming slow as molasses, A24’s Friday The 13th prequel series Crystal Lake is as cursed as the entire franchise has been, with the most recent news being the loss of their showrunner. This is on […]
HIP-HOP DAY 2024
Our second annual celebration of Hip-Hop Day comes just as a building block of hip-hop culture is globally recognized in the 2024 Paris Olympics! Very cool to see breaking added as an Olympic sport this […]
The Dork Universe: On recent trends in non-sequitur horror
It is no revelation that the reputation of Horror has vastly improved in the past decade’s time. It wouldn’t even be a stretch to say it is fully redeemed and in a new golden era. […]
MIXTAPE: GRUMPY ’94
“Peace, love, empathy”. Those words hit me like a truck when Courtney Love spoke them. Hearing her read from her late husband Kurt Cobain’s suicide note that April of 1994 on MTV News of all […]
The Architect of the Post-Modern Haunted House Story: Richard Matheson and The Legend of Hell House
Another Halloween is upon us and I’m very happy to focus on ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and other supernatural phenomena that can only be found in works of fiction (I do not believe in such phenomena […]
BIMBO BRUTALE: WHY 2000-2009 IS THE GOLDEN AGE OF FEMALE-LED ACTION/HORROR MOVIES
“And it’s stupid when they say, ‘You only use your body. You are an object of men.’ No, I’m the subject. I’m not an object.” – Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer and showgirl, 1988 A hard-bodied […]
ELBEE & ANDREW’S SPOOKY WATCHLIST
Take a look inside what the Head Grumps are watching around Grumpire HQ this October in Elbee & Andrew‘s Letterboxd list: “True to our name, we get a little grumpy when planning our Halloween watchlist […]
TYLER’S SPOOKY WATCHLIST
Take a look inside frequent contributor Tyler Peterson‘s Spooky Season Letterboxd Watchlist! Some highlights from Tyler himself: The Faculty (1998) “Has it really been twenty-five years since I told my mom I was going to […]
BRIAN’S SPOOKY WATCHLIST
Here’s a look inside Deathbomb Arc founder and Grumpire regular Brian Miller‘s Spooky Season Letterboxd Watchlist: “An honest list of exactly what is in our Blu-ray (and digital) stack here at my home to watch […]
BECAUSE THE SOUL IS PROGRESSIVE, IT NEVER QUITE REPEATS ITSELF: ON THE SO-CALLED CLONES OF ‘SCREAM’
What if God fell into the darkness of Hell? Into the prison He had made for His own enemies, for those diametrically opposite of Him… into a realm so far from the beauty of Heaven, […]
JAY’S SPOOKY WATCHLIST
Assistant Editor Jay Alary shares with us his picks for October viewing in his Letterboxd watchlist: LETTERBOXD IN FOR THE NIGHT: “It’s October and you’re scrolling through multiple streaming platforms on your TV and nothing […]
If the Abyss Stares Into a Camera, the Camera Stares Back: On Found Footage Horror and Structural Film
An analog video camera is mounted to an oscillating standing fan and left unattended to capture whatever may come across its path. Rotating at its own steady rate between the voluminous kitchen and living room […]
2023 GRUMPY GUIDE TO SPOOKY STREAMING
In celebration of, or at least abuse of, the new Grumpire Letterboxd page, we’re launching a new series of lists. Some help summarize our more complex essays which cover lots of films; some offer supplements […]
HIP HOP DAY THE GRUMPY WAY
We heard August 11, 2023, is the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop as we know it, so what better time to celebrate some of our favorite hip-hop films? Read on, player. FROM SPENCER SEAMS: HOW HIGH […]