Why Halloween Deserves To Become A Day Off
It’s the end of October. Trick or Treaters will be out and about soon. There are bars and parties to hit, or maybe if you’re not into that, you can celebrate at home by watching … Read This Story
Editorials
Why Halloween Deserves To Become A Day Off
It’s the end of October. Trick or Treaters will be out and about soon. There are bars and parties to hit, or maybe if you’re not into that, you can celebrate at home by watching … Read This Story
Tick Tock, Chop Chop! Revisiting the Terrifying Glory of Clock Tower on PlayStation
Well, well, my creepy kiddos! It seems Old Man Time has seen fit to rewind our clocks back to circa 1997, when the scissor-wielding survival horror of Clock Tower first sliced its way onto the … Read This Story
The Golden Age of Slice and Dice: Revisiting 80s Slasher Films
The 1980s were the definitive decade for slasher films, giving us some of the most iconic and influential horror villains of all time. As both a lifelong slasher fanatic and horror historian, I believe it’s … Read This Story
The Best and Bloodiest: Ranking the Top 10 Horror Movies of the 1990s
The 1990s were a landmark decade for horror, bridging the genre from the slasher-dominated 80s into more psychological and self-aware territory. Masterpieces like The Silence of the Lambs brought prestige to horror while Scream revitalized … Read This Story
Raising Hell: How the 90s Became Possessed by Religious Horror
As a horror-obsessed teen coming of age in the 1990s, I felt as though I was experiencing a profound religious reawakening vicariously through the decade’s startling resurgence of provocative occult cinema. I sought primal metaphors … Read This Story
Where the Nightmare on Elm Street Remake Went Wrong: Miscasting a Horror Icon
As a devoted Nightmare on Elm Street fan, I eagerly anticipated the 2010 remake, hoping it could reinvigorate my favorite slasher franchise. But upon release, the reboot earned overwhelmingly negative reviews and fan backlash for … Read This Story
Will Evil Dead Rise Again? Director Lee Cronin Weighs In on Sequel Possibilities
With Evil Dead Rise slaying at the box office and earning acclaim from genre fans, speculation abounds regarding a follow-up to continue the Deadite chaos. Director Lee Cronin recently spoke with Variety about sequel ideas … Read This Story
Re-Examining the Radioactive Horrors of Chernobyl Diaries
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 stands as one of the most chilling events of the 20th century. An uncontained reactor explosion leading to mass radiation poisoning seems ripe for hair-raising fiction. Yet it took … Read This Story
Should It Return? Martin Mystery
How many people even remember this show? Well, I did. I remember seeing some episodes occasionally when I was younger, but I was never a hardcore fan. Still, some aspects stuck with me. I recalled … Read This Story
John Carpenter’s Halloween and its Enduring Influence on the Slasher Genre
Few horror films have carved a legacy as enduring and influential as John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 slasher Halloween. With its minimalist suspense, moody aesthetic, and chilling piano score, Halloween established the template for the wave … Read This Story
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation and the Era of Weird 1990s Horror
In the vast slasher sequel landscape, there exists a strange breed of follow-ups that wildly diverge from their predecessors. While most recapitulate the formula that worked to diminishing returns, these oddball entries throw expectations out … Read This Story
House on Haunted Hill (1999): A Textbook Case of Remake Failure
While horror remakes proved mostly creatively bankrupt amidst the 1990s glut, perhaps none fumbled as completely as the 1999 revamp of William Castle’s 1959 classic House on Haunted Hill. Geoffrey Rush gamely attempts to fill … Read This Story
Freddy Krueger’s Fiendish Journey from Killer Concept to Horror Icon
Among horror’s rogues gallery of slasher killers, few rival Freddy Krueger for sheer icon status. His anarchic spirit, darkly comedic menace, and supernaturally-charged murders have haunted audiences for decades. But a memorable movie monster requires … Read This Story
The Tragic Fate of Sister Marguerite: How Forbidden Love Led to Haunting 18th-Century Nova Scotia
The Legend of the Headless Nun Forbidden Passion and Punishment in a Remote Convent The tale of the Headless Nun of St. Margaret’s Bay has been frightening Nova Scotians for over 200 years with its … Read This Story
Baptized in Blood: How 80s Horror Films Defined My Love of the Macabre
As a lifelong horror fanatic born in 1984, the bloody blockbusters of the late 70s and 80s baptized me in terror and left an indelible mark on my darker sensibilities. My earliest memories are huddling … Read This Story
Baring Fangs Anew: How 90s Horror Resurrected the Vampire Genre
Like a drop of blood re-animating lifeless flesh, a startling resurgence of creative vampire films in the 1990s revitalized the subgenre after a decade of diminishing returns. Forward-thinking directors infused new blood into timeless mythology, … Read This Story
Danielle Harris – From Scream Queen to Horror Heroine
Among today’s scream queens, few carry the genre pedigree and passionate fanbase of Danielle Harris. Her legendary run playing Michael Myers’ niece Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4 and 5 endeared her to audiences. While still … Read This Story
How Dumb Is Too Dumb? In Horror Movies
“Why the hell would she run up the stairs?” you think as you see a movie with a knife-wielding burglar chasing a woman through her home. Then again, maybe it’s a survival group setting. Unnatural … Read This Story
The Cycle of Horror and Phobias
Nearly everything that exists has a phobia attached to it. They range from ones that make sense rationally such as tigriphobia (fear of tigers) to ones you may find odd. Take vestiphobia (fear of clothing) … Read This Story
My First Encounter with the Master of Dreams: A Nightmare on Elm Street
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was only 10 years old, an impressionable kid with an overactive imagination, when I first watched A Nightmare on Elm Street. My older brother thought it would … Read This Story
