Blacula
Mark Harris has been a horror fan for over 20 years, and started the Blackhorrormovies.com website in 2005. As a freelance writer since 2003, he has written for publications such as About.com, PopMatters.com, Napster, THEiNDI Magazine, Pretty-Scary.com and Ugly Planet, as well as the head writer for the Chicago-based horror television show Midnite Screams. He has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2009 and currently has over 400 horror movies in his Netflix queue.
The Final Project (2016)
Oh look, it’s another found footage horror movie! Along with glossy Hollywood remakes, jittery found footage films have been the whipping boys of horror fans for years -- justifiably...
Would You Live or Die in a Horror Movie?
Ever wonder how you would fare if you were a character in a horror movie? Would you be the "final girl/guy," or would you be the first to have...
Teeth and Blood (2015)
Watching Teeth and Blood, I realized two things:
Teeth and blood are the absolute minimum a vampire movie should have, so this one is aiming pretty low.
Glenn Plummer...
Chain Letter (2010)
With its mostly white cast, you wouldn’t necessarily deduce that Chain Letter had a black director -- Black Horror Hall of Famer Deon Taylor (Nite Tales, Dead Tone, Meet...
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Of the recent glut of “found footage” horror movies...Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes is one of them. It’s far from the best example of this style, but it’s certainly...
The Sickle (2015)
The Sickle is a low-budget little indie film that proves you don’t have to toss a bunch of money into a production to create something thoughtful, dramatic and well...
The Sand (AKA Blood Sand) (2015)
"Admirable" probably isn’t the first (or 20th) word you’d think of to describe a movie about killer sand, but The Sand feels like a well-intentioned attempt at a post-racial...
Prom Ride (2016)
SPOILER ALERT: In order to discuss the racial angle of this movie, certain spoilers may be revealed. Consider yourself warned, although really, it’s not like this is The Sixth...
Interview with the Black Guy
Originally published on MadAtoms.com
You've seen him in every horror movie since 1984: the black guy who hangs out with a group of white people he has nothing in common...
Dying Young: Black Character Deaths in Horror Movies
If there were no black people, who would die in horror movies? In the horror realm, it could actually be seen as a badge of honor to be important...
