johannes roberts
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Sharksploitation Examines Jaws’ Effect on Pop Culture—and Swimming
Before Jaws, most beachgoers didn’t worry about getting chomped by sharks. After Jaws, it’s all anyone could think about—and Hollywood, as well as the international film industry, took notice, capitalizing with so many rip-offs a new genre was born. It gets its own spotlight in a new documentary: Sharksploitation. Sharksploitation arrives on Shudder this week,…
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Resident Evil’s New Live-Action Movie Is Going Back to the Games’ Horror Roots
Although the Resident Evil game franchise has certainly spun out to its own particularly varied and weird kind of horror these days — from presidential zombie assaults to Very Tall Women — the movie adaptations very quickly went off on their own undead thing. Now, the latest attempt to reboot the big screen saga is…