Among horror’s roster of iconic slashers, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees undoubtedly stand as two of the most indestructible forces of evil ever depicted on screen. Both killers have terrified audiences in decades of films apiece, racking up triple digit body counts. But what would happen if these unstoppable murderous …
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 Vincent Price’s polished loafers, but lacks the necessary charisma in this abysmal update that scarcely …
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 Legend gleefully dismantled genre tropes, commenting knowingly on clichés even as they deployed them for …
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 in 1996, Scream playfully skewered and celebrated the slasher genre’s derivative clichés and tired tropes even as it expertly weaponized them in classic Craven fashion. The script’s …
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 the 1980s, the 90s saw seismic shifts in studio priorities, cultural tastes, and what mainstream …
Greetings fellow fiends, this is your macabre mistress of the night, Sharon, with the chilling scoop on the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s film adaptation. As an authority on horror in all its gruesome glory, I was initially intrigued to see one of the most terrifying video games brought to …
A new nightmare is on the horizon for Jigsaw fans. Lionsgate has unleashed the first official poster for the upcoming 10th Saw film, aptly titled Saw X, and it teases a deadly new contraption worthy of the franchise’s twisted legacy. The ominous one-sheet shows an unknown figure wearing a terrifying …
