Many years ago, when I asked 11-year-old Michael, a boy I was working with in therapy, what a good day looked like for him, his answer stopped me: “A good day is when bad things don’t happen ...

Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, and Molly Ringwald co-star in Stewart Thorndike's unmissable horror film, out August 18. It’s a lot of bad things that one traumatized motel owner (Gayle Rankin ...

Ultimately, Bad Things is a jarringly original cinematic experience that’s worth investigating if you have a little bit of patience and find liminal horror as compelling as I do.

In any case, the one that pops up in “Bad Things” early on will, indeed, get revved up. “I wanted to take back the boys’ phallic chain saw from other films,” Thorndike said.