Chad Collins

Jacksonville Beach

Staff writer @dreadcentral/@dorianawards member. Previous bylines: @slashfilm, @gaylydreadful, @certifiedforgot, @manorvellum, @ruemorgue, others🎃

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"The kills are exceptional"

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

Scream might be the most iterated horror formula out there. Ever since Wes Craven’s masterpiece shook the horror world in 1996, everyone was trying to out-Scream Scream. Scribe Kevin Williamson tried to outdo himself with both I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Faculty. Germany dipped into the slasher pool with The Pool. Jamie Blanks helmed both Urban Legend and Valentine, two slasher classics indebted to Scream. The 1990s were something else if you were a slasher fan. And then the trend died.
This Free-to-Stream and Wildly Underrated Stephen King Remake Was Almost A Full TV Series

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

Last week, our Managing Editor Josh Korngut penned my favorite editorial of the year thus far. Responding to the recent news of Mike Flanagan’s new take on Stephen King’s Carrie, Korngut questions why fidelity to the source material never translates one of the text’s most pointed descriptions—Carrie’s appearance. Carrie White, as written, is a fat girl, though the many adaptations on stage and screen never seem to care all that much.
Forgotten Action-Horror Gem Starring Vin Deasel is Now Yours to Stream for Free

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

Action-horror is such an interesting subgenre. The Terminator and Aliens (both Cameron) are classics, adeptly balancing the scope of the action with more intimate, terrifying moments, though they’re more outliers than the norm. Often, especially in the 2010s, action-horror hybrids were costly, star-studded vehicles with fantastical presences and incredulous PG-13 ratings. Remember the two different attempts to launch a Dark Universe with Dracula Untold and The Mummy? Yeah.
We Need to Talk About One of the Scariest Movies Ever Made Since Now Streaming For Free

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

We need to talk. If you take my recommendation and check out the movie I’m about to suggest here, you’re going to have a really hard week. It’s going to haunt you. Stick with you in a way few films do. You’re liable to feel sick to your stomach. Honestly, you’re probably going to look at the world in an entirely different way, and it may not be a change that’s for the better.
Morgan Freeman and John Cusack Stun in This Chart-Topping Hulu Thriller

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

I feel a distinct sense of sadness whenever a high-profile filmmaker falls from grace. I recognize how challenging making one movie is, let alone dozens, and I earnestly believe even one hit under your belt is a worthy accomplishment. It’s challenging to keep up forever, though I still often wonder what went wrong. How does one move from A-list hits to B-movie nonsense in the span of just a few short years? Take filmmaker Bruce Beresford.
At 20, 'The Amityville Horror' Remake Deserves a Second Look

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

The horror remakes of the early 2000s had a lot in common. Those commonalities were often at the root of why critics panned these films. There were often hot, young WB (or later CW) stars in the leading roles. Flashy music video direction was simultaneously garish yet intoxicating in its frenzy. And the plots, what little remained salvaged from the original in some cases, were expanded upon, often to incredulous degrees (consider A Nightmare on Elm Street’s deeper Krueger mythos).
'The First Omen' is Still the Perfect Religious Horror Film

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

David Gordon Green’s Halloween grossed $259 million against a meager $10 million budget when it was released in October 2018. If anything in Hollywood talks, it’s money, and suddenly, there was a lot of money sitting untouched in horror’s past. Scream came back to critical and commercial success. Texas Chainsaw Massacre topped the Netflix charts (but severed critics). Hellraiser popped by for a hello, and Candyman reintroduced an entire generation to a genre classic.
This Underrated and Violent Stephen King Crime Series Has Three Seasons You Can Stream

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

There are a lot of Stephen King adaptations yet to come this year alone. The Life of Chuck is my most-anticipated, even if it isn’t a horror adaptation (despite being helmed by Mike Flanagan, among the best to ever do King), though I had plenty of gory fun with The Monkey earlier this year. That damned monkey might even appear on my year-end list, who knows?
This Free-to-Stream Hidden Horror Gem is a Terrifying Lovecraftian Masterpiece

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

Lovecraftian horror remains the most difficult to adapt in filmic form. Think about not just the writer’s work, but the litany of homages and broader sense Lovecraftian horror works that have graced fiction in the decades since. Principally, the horror is that of the unknown. Some nebulous, unseen terror that, while effective in writing, proves incredibly challenging to actualize and visualize on a movie screen. For every Dagon and Underwater, there’s Alone in the Dark and The Barge People.
"This movie will stay with you"

2 weeks ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

I recently started a horror movie club with some friends from out of state. The ultimate goal is to slowly desensitize them and later convince them to join a wooded cult I intend to start in the next twenty years. But, in the meantime, it’s an excellent opportunity for me to share some of the horror movies I’ve been loving recently. Our next two films scheduled, for those interested, are Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen and Jason Yu’s Sleep. I’m not playing around as curator, okay?