Apologies for the unexpected Revenge of the Remakes hiatus. Life be life’in, as someone probably says. It’s been almost nine months since we rode Dick Mass’ (The) Lift and went Down on his (The) Shaft, but I’m back with a vengeance. Countless horror remakes remain to cover, so what’s next? David Cronenberg’s on my mind after slathering myself in the nastiest, most exceptional body horror movies—why not let the Canadian icon make his second column appearance? Except this time, he’s the filmmaker getting remade.
I haven’t been foaming at the mouth to highlight Rabid, not because of Cronenberg’s rapidly paced and frantic outbreak thriller. Jen and Sylvia Soska’s Rabid is a messy and underwhelming expansion of Cronenberg’s themes. It’s “modernized through a female perspective,” doing plenty differently, yet the filmmaking duo’s execution is hardly en vogue. As a standalone feature,...
I haven’t been foaming at the mouth to highlight Rabid, not because of Cronenberg’s rapidly paced and frantic outbreak thriller. Jen and Sylvia Soska’s Rabid is a messy and underwhelming expansion of Cronenberg’s themes. It’s “modernized through a female perspective,” doing plenty differently, yet the filmmaking duo’s execution is hardly en vogue. As a standalone feature,...
- 5/30/2025
- by Matt Donato
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s the summer of screams on Screambox!
This June was absolutely jam-packed with several horror gems hitting our Screambox streaming service, including the hotly anticipated must-see definitive documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, not to mention Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tobe Hooper’s classic 1995 adaptation of The Mangler (also starring Robert Englund), George A. Romero’s zombie classic Day of the Dead, Marcus Dunstan’s slasher The Collector, the supernatural festival hit Jethica, the Screambox Original body horror thriller New Religion, and the entire Subspecies franchise!
We’re ending the month with a bang, also dropping both David Cronenberg and the Soska Sisters’ Rabid, which are now streaming on Screambox.
Interestingly, David Cronenberg’s 1977 masterpiece is actually a Christmas-set horror film. In the film, surgery leaves a Montreal motorcyclist with a bloodsucking appendage in her armpit. Soon she has an insatiable thirst for human blood.
This June was absolutely jam-packed with several horror gems hitting our Screambox streaming service, including the hotly anticipated must-see definitive documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, not to mention Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tobe Hooper’s classic 1995 adaptation of The Mangler (also starring Robert Englund), George A. Romero’s zombie classic Day of the Dead, Marcus Dunstan’s slasher The Collector, the supernatural festival hit Jethica, the Screambox Original body horror thriller New Religion, and the entire Subspecies franchise!
We’re ending the month with a bang, also dropping both David Cronenberg and the Soska Sisters’ Rabid, which are now streaming on Screambox.
Interestingly, David Cronenberg’s 1977 masterpiece is actually a Christmas-set horror film. In the film, surgery leaves a Montreal motorcyclist with a bloodsucking appendage in her armpit. Soon she has an insatiable thirst for human blood.
- 6/30/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
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