Chad Collins

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

I’m a slasher guy. It’s a tough life, since I’ve unfortunately been saddled with friends and family who rank slashers as the lowest of the horror subgenres. That doesn’t stop me, however, and I’ve made it my personal mission to seek out every and any slasher I can find. I take it all very seriously, often thinking about the subgenre’s form and structure more than I probably should. We all have that one thing we can yap about for ages. Get me started on a slasher, and I’ll never stop.

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

Decades ago, Margaret Anderson (Jane Wyatt) had a premonition of her husband’s death on the seminal family sitcom Father Knows Best. The plotline was unconventional, largely because it not only validated Anderson’s paranoia surrounding the premonition but actually paid it off in the end. Suitably spooked, her husband skips his work trip. That same evening, the road he would have taken was washed away in a flood.

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

The first memory I have of ever seeing a same sex couple on my television is Richard Clabaugh’s Python. No, seriously. The film opens with a lesbian couple camping in the woods, the first to fall victim to the titular giant snake. Otherwise, the early 2000s were a wasteland, especially in the horror world, even more so in the horror world I had access to as a kid in the suburbs. That’s why I loved shows like Buffy and Supernatural.

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

I love found footage horror. Maybe not as much as our Editor-in-Chief, Mary Beth McAndrews, but in the presence of royalty, I can’t hope to compete. While the subgenre hasn’t been chugging along quite as swiftly as it did in the early 2010s, where it seemed like every other horror movie would be adopting the conceit, there are still some remarkable entries that sneak their way into our homes to scare us silly with handheld cameras and dizzying footage.

1 week ago | dreadcentral.com | Chad Collins

Netflix means a lot of different things to different people these days. A lot of it is warranted, and “Netflix Movie” is practically defined within the zeitgeist. Think of it like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous remarks on obscenity and porn—maybe I can’t define what I mean by Netflix movie beyond the obvious, but I know it when I see it. It’s complicated, too, since Netflix both produces movies in-house and acquires them elsewhere.