Editorials
Why A Cure for Wellness Is Better Described As A Gothic Mystery With Horror Elements
From the initial previews, A Cure for Wellness could be interpreted as an atypical, horror asylum movie where the protagonist falls through a cliché storyline that the majority of horror fans hav...
Cry Little Sister: A Defense of Dawn Summers
Last March, I wrote a piece on Buffy characters who were unfairly despised. While I expected some degree of backlash against a few of the picks, there was a surprising amount of people who apparently ...
Why Black Mirror is the Modern Twilight Zone
As much as we all love escapism and cheesy good fun, the best horror/sci-fi is always culturally relevant and politically charged. It has its finger on the pulse. The Twilight Zone might be the best a...
Are We Really Surprised Horror Was Snubbed By The Oscars Yet Again (And Should We Care?)
Following the announcement of the 2017 Oscar nominees earlier this week, social media was flooded with protestations of “why him?”, “why not her?” “why THAT movie?”...
Why More Movies Need to Adopt Blair Witch’s Marketing
To clarify right out of the gate, I’m not talking about the marketing campaign of The Blair Witch Project. That in itself was one of the best marketing campaigns of all time, but there have bee...
In Defense of The Bye Bye Man (The Title, That is)
I haven’t seen The Bye Bye Man yet. I know the basic story and I’ve been spoiled on—I think—a few of the major beats, but I still haven’t seen it and don’t kn...
Still Screaming: 20 Years Later, Craven’s Classic Is King
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In thi...
Why Sidney Prescott Is An Incredible And Realistic Horror Heroine
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In thi...
How Scream Was A Horror Game-Changer
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In thi...