All the best retro horror!
People who watch movies and enjoy films that are not very good, come close to the light from the projector. We look at Dracula’s Last Rites, a movie from 1980, with interest. This movie is … Read This Story
🌆 THE PLOT (OR LACK THEREOF):Small-town girl Eve Harrington (Holly Woodlawn, a trans icon who could out-charm the devil) moves to NYC to become a star. Instead, she finds: Sammy’s Take:“It’s All About Eve on acid, directed by a … Read This Story
🔥 SAMMY’S BACK, BABY: WHISKEY IN HAND, HORROR IN HEART 🔥 By Sammy – Lead shrieker of Knife in the Dark, horror journalist at HorrorFacts.com, and professional bad decision-maker 🌙 INTRO: I WRITE LIKE I … Read This Story
I recently had the opportunity to revisit the 1979 thriller “Cardiac Arrest,” and I must say, it was quite a different experience from what I initially expected. I was drawn to this movie by its … Read This Story
Cannibals in the Streets (1980): Vietnam horror aka Cannibal Apocalypse — infection, urban decay, John Saxon.
“Beyond Evil” (1980) is a supernatural horror film that tries desperately to cash in on the possession and haunted house crazes of the 1970s, but ultimately falls short due to its muddled execution and derivative … Read This Story
Updated August 2026: Video nasties made horror history — see where the classics stream in our free streaming roundup. “The Boogey Man” (1980), directed by Ulli Lommel, is a fascinating entry in the early 1980s … Read This Story
Ginger Snaps, a Canadian horror gem from 2000, sinks its teeth deep into the realm of teen horror, emerging as a ferocious exploration of female adolescence that’s anything but another run-of-the-mill scream fest. This film … Read This Story
Updated August 2026: Transgressive cinema pairs with our sexuality-in-horror watchlist — Cronenberg territory throughout. David Cronenberg’s Crash is not merely a film; it’s a visceral experience, a descent into the darkest recesses of human desire … Read This Story
Time-warp again: our Rocky Horror Picture Show review covers the music, the madness, and the fandom that saved it.
Altered States is a mind-bending cinematic experience that burrows deep into the darkest recesses of human consciousness. Director Ken Russell takes viewers on a primal journey back to the origins of life itself, peeling back … Read This Story
As a child of the 80s weaned on a healthy diet of Fangoria magazines and late-night cable creature features, Alligator hit all the right nostalgic notes for this horror devotee. This 1980 B-movie gem takes … Read This Story
Let’s be honest here – The Alien Dead is a certifiably bad movie. Like, really, really bad. We’re talking acting so wooden you could start a forest fire, special effects that look like they were … Read This Story
Among Wes Craven’s filmography, 1991’s The People Under the Stairs stands out as a seminal slice of social satire cloaked in horror. While the 80s saw Craven perfecting self-aware teen slashers via A Nightmare on … Read This Story
Amongst horror fans, Lifeforce remains one of the most tragically underseen gems of the 1980s horror boom. Directed by genre maverick Tobe Hooper hot on the heels of Poltergeist, this eccentric sci-fi vampire tale failed … Read This Story
Among all the traditions horror broke and reinvented during the 1990s, perhaps none proved more impactful than a surge in self-referential “meta” horror. Films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban … Read This Story
Updated August 2026: Gothic madness on film pairs well with our Stopmotion (2023) review — art consuming its artist, forty years apart. I was eager to revisit Ken Russell’s 1986 cult classic Gothic. This surreal … Read This Story
Updated August 2026: Found footage changed everything — see our Gonjiam coverage and the free streaming picks for more camcorder terror. Among all the groundbreaking horror films of the 1990s, perhaps none proved more influential … Read This Story
Among all the slick, sarcastic teen screamfests of late 90s horror, Wes Craven’s smash-hit Scream stands apart as the most incisively influential. Released i Updated August 2026: More on HorrorFacts — Scream 7 trailer and … Read This Story
As a lifelong horror devotee, the 1990s hold a special place for me as a transitional decade that radically reshaped genre conventions on the brink of a new millennium. Following the lucrative slasher boom of … Read This Story