Thirty years ago this year, horror was in a very different place. It really was. Might even have been a better place, but there’s still plenty of life in the genre right now. Still, the mid-80&...
Giallo was a great movement in Italian horror that has sadly died out since, much like Italian horror itself. It heavily influenced movies like Halloween, Black Christmas and Friday the 13th and was i...
There are a lot of fans for the Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street series. Those are the big three. There are other major franchises like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but that one&...
[soliloquy id=”11361″] Good or bad, horror sequels are plentiful. Some are almost universally embraced by fans, some are almost universally hated. And there are some that simply get a wors...
As the post-mortem video left by the franchise’s best character, Randy Meeks, states in Scream 3, “trilogies are a rarity in the horror field.” Unlike anything else in Scream 3, h...
Lucio Fulci shares the “godfather of gore” title with fellow director Herschell Gordon Lewis. But Fulci may win between the two of them solely for the visceral response his movies evoke....
[soliloquy id=”10971″] Video nasties were the general term for the movies that were banned in the UK in the early 1980’s, criticized for the violence and sexuality. Some of them wer...
[soliloquy id=”10849″] With more film adaptations than any other fictional character, Dracula has been portrayed by a vast number of actors over the years. Some of them have were classic a...
[soliloquy id=”10851″] Wes Craven is one of the major maestros of the horror genre, having provided it with two of its most lucrative franchises (Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream) as wel...