horror films
Is ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Based on a True Story?
Is A Nightmare on Elm Street based on a true story? Yes, to an extent. But not entirely so. Read on as we separate fact from fiction and definitively speak to the real-life story that inspired A Night...
Mixed Bag: Why ‘Body Bags’ is a Rough Around the Edges Anthology (That’s Still Absurdly Fun)
Body Bags, is easily one of the most overlooked titles John Carpenter directed. It’s far from the classic status of Halloween or The Thing, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t warran...
‘The Girl Next Door’ (2007) is Terrifying and Intense [Review]
The Girl Next Door (2007) is based on the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name. The film takes inspiration from a series of terrifying real-life events. Gregory Wilson directed this jarring picture. Th...
How the ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Remake Fixed the Fatal Flaw of the Original
George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is an absolute classic. It’s one of the films that truly defined the genre. It created a sub-genre that we’ve come to know as the mod...
Passing the Torch: Great Producing Ventures from Famous Horror Directors
We all love the masters of terror around these parts. John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Dario Argento, Roger Corman and so on and so forth. These are names we hold in high regard...
‘The Exorcism’ Works Because of Russell Crowe [Review]
When the poster for The Exorcism first dropped, a certain sect of horror fans was positively gleeful about the fact that Russell Crowe had ostensibly made the same movie twice, in quick succession. Ho...
Seven DTV Horror Movies Way Better Than They Should Have Been
It’s a pretty standard idea that straight to video is the bottom of the barrel for horror films. Of course, things are different now. In the VOD era, filmmakers would kill for a straight to vid...
The Intensity of High Tension: A Look at Plagiarism in Horror
In a time of remakes, reboots, re-imaginings and so forth, the genre fan has a narrowed selection in terms of originality. This debatable lack of creativity divides audiences on a regular basis. Wheth...
Jason Voorhees Has Been Played by These Actors [Men Behind the Mask]
Unlike his nemesis Freddy Krueger, Jason has never had much of a consistent portrayal on film. Sure, for awhile there it seemed things had changed. But now we’re back right where we started, wi...