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Kevin Williamson Modernizes Rear Window and The Game for New TV Adaptations

Acclaimed horror screenwriter Kevin Williamson has signed an overall deal with Universal Television to develop several high-profile thriller projects, reports Deadline. The deal includes a modern reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic Rear Window for … Read This Story

How 90s Teen Screamfests Brought Self-Aware Horror Into the Mainstream

How 90s Teen Screamfests Brought Self-Aware Horror Into the Mainstream

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

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How Scream Saved Slasher Cinema by Savagely Satirizing Its Tropes

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 … Read This Story

The Real-Life Killer That Inspired Ghost Face

One night in 1994, aspiring writer Kevin Williamson was housesitting for a friend when he happened across a news broadcast about American serial killer Danny Rolling, or ‘The Gainesville Ripper’ as he had been dubbed … Read This Story