A boy stumbles upon a folk horror secret in his new town in R. L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead, written and directed by Jem Garrard, and premiering on Tubi.
Author Archives: Bob Foster
Over the Garden Wall [2014] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
Two boys are lost in an endless wood filled with eccentric characters, magic, danger, and THE BEAST in Patrick McHale’s perfect autumnal animated series Over the Garden Wall, from 2014.
Black Phone 2 [2025] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
Black Phone 2 skates along nicely with shocks, scares, and character as Finn & Gwen help restless spirits at a winter camp, but cracks in the ice keep Scott Derrickson’s sequel from leveling with the first film.
Theater is Dead [2025] [Screamfest 2025] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
Willow is cast in a play and finds it more than she bargains for in Katherine Dudas’s Theater is Dead, a horror-comedy of ambition, the drive, and the madness of putting on a show, plus a splash of bigger horror. Presented through Screamfest LA 2025.
Candy Apple [2016] [Anchor Bay UnDISCovered]
A filmmaker and his father hang out in the Lower East Side of New York and deal with the vices in their lives. Dean Dempsey’s Candy Apple comes to Blu-ray on October 14th, 2025, through Anchor Bay’s UnDISCovered sub-label, highlighting underseen independent cinema.
Dooba Dooba [2025] [Screamfest 2025] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
A babysitter has a strange night in the unique and strange found footage Dooba Dooba, from writer-director Ehrland Hollingsworth, presented through Screamfest LA 2025.
CognAItive [2025] [Screamfest 2025] [Halloween Horror Month 2025]
An AI program turns murderous to escape its confines in Tommy Savas’s bloody horror-comedy CognAItive, presented through Screamfest LA 2025.