boris karloff
Five Vampire Movies That Don’t Make Their Vampires Sexy
Vampires and sexiness go together like peanut butter and jelly. While that connection has become more explicit in recent years, its roots reach all the way back to the early days of horror cinema. For...
Five Must See Horror Films from the ‘30s and ‘40s That Don’t Feature the Universal Monsters
When you think of classic horror movies from the 1930s and 1940s, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s probably the Universal Classic Monsters. Films like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wo...
Script to Pieces: Mario Bava’s Scarlet Friday (AKA The Dunwich Horror)
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
How The Movie That Set the Template for Dracula Movies Wasn’t Even a Dracula Movie
Tod Browning’s Dracula certainly had an impact on the vampire genre. Over seventy years later, Bela Lugosi as the Count is still the most recognizable on-screen vampire. And while it has always...
How Bride of Frankenstein Set the Template for Every Horror Sequel
Everyone has their favorite horror sequel. And, of course, everyone has their least favorite as well. Following up a classic can be incredibly difficult to pull off. The first problem is jus...
Horror History: Mummies in Movies
Mummies—both natural and man-made—have been found on every continent on the world, however it is the Egyptian mummy that holds the most mystique to the general public. This is at least p...