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[Spencer Charnas photo credit: Ellie Mitchell] Vocalist Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills is a vault of horror film facts. Not only is he a super fan of the movies and of gothic literature (which is immediately apparent to anyone who’s ever listened to the band’s music), but he’s also bursting at the seams with statistics […]

When APTV Director Bobby Makar asked Spencer Charnas what his favorite scary movie is, he wasn’t setting up a bloodbath. Indeed, the Ice Nine Kills singer is a die-hard enthusiast of scary movies of all kinds. Horror films, splatter reels, you name it. If it bleeds, it feeds Charnas’ imagination to run wild in his […]

Horror movies are some of the highest grossing films, making millions of dollars each year. Because the genre is so popular, we see constant sequels and prequels in abundance, as well as many remakes of classic works. Horror fans have had had a love/hate relationship with remakes throughout their time; the reimagined work either meets […]

Twenty years ago, famed horror movie director Wes Craven revived what was becoming a dehydrated and downright uninteresting genre. Just two decades prior, horror was experiencing a renaissance of sorts, championed by the birth of the slasher film with 1978’s Halloween, a John Carpenter-directed underdog turned massive box office success featuring “scream queen” Jamie Lee […]

Whether you love, loathe or merely try to ignore them, horror remakes, rehashes and sequels have been a cinematic fact of life since the earliest days of the medium. The trend of rebooting successful films has, for better and too often for worse, been a staple of the genre since its inception. Robert Louis Stevenson’s […]

The decade that gave us dial-up internet and the “Rachel” cut remains one of the most fertile and influential eras in the development of horror cinema. Although the ’80s are easy to generalize as the era of iconic slashers such as Freddy and Jason, ’90s horror doesn’t lend itself to such convenient categorization.  From the […]

The latest installment in the Halloween series officially hit theaters today. Earlier this year, it was revealed only the first film exists in this world. The rest of the timeline is erased, and the new film picks up in Haddonfield 40 years after the original. While there isn’t any continuation to the seven previous films […]

To horror fans, these names are sacred: Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Leatherface. They’re the cinematic slashers who replaced Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and the Wolfman in the pantheon of movie monsters. They ushered in an arguably less refined, more violent and definitely bloodier approach in the 1970s and ’80s. No doubt, they’ve earned their […]

It’s been five years since Flogging Molly’s last album Speed Of Darkness, but now they’ve joined AP to release a teaser to their upcoming releases with the song “The Hand of John L. Sullivan.” The song was inspired by the boxing legend John L. Sullivan, aka the “Boston Strong Boy.” However, Sullivan is perhaps better […]

Fred Mascherino, former guitarist and co-vocalist of Taking Back Sunday, has posted a blog reflecting on his time in the band, which he joined 10 years ago this week. Check out Mascherino’s post, appropriately titled “A Decade Under The Influence,” below. Ten years ago this week, I called Eddie Reyes and talked to him about joining […]