Kids today will never know the joy of the weekly video store visit. When I was in middle school, my entire week revolved around which VHS cassettes and Playstation games I was going to rent Friday nig...
Robert Englund will always be best known as Freddy Krueger. There’s really no way around that. He helped to create one of the most original, most iconic villains in cinema history. But outside ...
Horror parodies are a tough lot. They’re hard to do and almost impossible to do correctly. However, horror comedies are often excellent, and easier to get right, which is part of the probl...
In the history of horror, threequels, have been incredibly significant to their respective franchises. Usually, the order of operations starts with a first movie that delivers a massive level success....
Found footage films have overflowed the horror market for the past decade. Despite harsh critiques for ‘shaky, disorientating camera-work’ and ‘derivative, unoriginal storylines,&...
Horror comedies are extremely hard to pull off. Yet, despite that, comedy and horror are more entwined than any two other genres. Both of them completely come down to timing. Setting up a scare and se...
One of the most obvious parts of the filmgoing experience is the presentation of images given to the audience. Many factors contribute to the scare factor in a horror film, such as sound, acting, tens...
Throughout the history of horror movies, all different species of animals have bucked back against humanity. But rarely do these creatures succeed in the end. Human vs. creature is the simplest of mov...
Filmmakers love to reference other filmmaker’s work, and this is especially true in the horror genre. The Scream franchise is built upon movie references and in-jokes. It ushered in an age of m...