I love the Scream movies, as many fans do. I don’t think Scream, as a franchise, is necessarily divisive, but I do think that both the people who do and don’t like it are passionately vo...
Why do we have so many remakes? Is there any single question—maybe not worded quite exactly like that—that you hear more from horror fans on the Internet? I see it asked every single day...
Indie filmmaker Perry Blackshear is gradually carving out a niche for himself as a purveyor of thoughtful, strange, and often deeply unsettling horror movies following the release of They Look Like Pe...
Movies can be great teaching tools. Most of my generation was raised on TV. Not every picture can teach great lessons, of course, but horror has proven surprisingly good at it. The...
The 1990s is a frequently shat-upon era for slasher movies, even though though enormous financial and critical success of Scream spawned a revival of the genre at a time when it was pretty much dead. ...
When a horror film builds a reputation for being a classic, especially when it’s widely considered to be one of the best of all time, it’s harder and harder for it to become a franchise....
The Prom Night series is a bit of an anomaly when it comes to horror franchises. Every series has that one movie that stands out and doesn’t have much of anything to do with the other installme...
The Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween franchises all have their flawed entries. But their problems are nothing compared to some of the series we’ll be looking at...
There’s somewhat of a fascination with Kiwi horror films thanks to Peter Jackson. He gave us two of his home country’s most bizarre, amazing horrors in Braindead and Bad Taste ...