The People Under the Stairs

Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs – Gleeful Social Revolt Through Horror

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 The Full Article

90s horror movies

Revisiting the Decade That Revitalized Horror – The 90s’ Scariest Classics

The 1990s stand as a landmark decade for horror, breathing new life into the genre following a perceived slump in the late 80s. Trailblazing films and filmmakers emerged to push boundaries and freshen stagnant formulas. … Read The Full Article

Freddy Krueger

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 The Full Article

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 The Full Article

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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 The Full Article

Horror in Transition: Examining the Genre's Paradigm Shifts in the 1990s

Horror in Transition: Examining the Genre’s Paradigm Shifts in the 1990s

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 The Full Article

Wes Craven's New Nightmare Freddy Collage

Meta Before Scream: Recalling the Genre-Bending Brilliance of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Among Wes Craven’s filmography, 1994’s New Nightmare remains criminally underappreciated for its ahead-of-its-time meta-horror storytelling. After fatigue set in across six ponderous Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, Craven returned to restore creative passion by deconstructing … Read The Full Article

Courteney Cox and Wes Craven

Courtney Cox says that Wes Craven would be proud of the new Scream 5 movie

In a recent Instagram post Cox writes that Wes Craven would be very proud of the new work and all the effort that went into creating the new Scream movie. This post comes as the … Read The Full Article

Halloween 6 The Alternate Version

Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers Producers Cut

Once upon a time there existed a bootleg version of the movie Halloween 6 he Curse of Michael Myers, this version included a very different story line then the one most people are used to … Read The Full Article