Editorials
Why The Woods Has to Tell You It’s the Scariest Movie Ever Made
The Exorcist is pretty immediately conjured up in the collective minds of horror fans as the film that is referred to/claims to be the scariest movie ever made. But you might see a lot of titles ...
The Twisted History Of The Cecil Hotel
All throughout history, there have been locations that secure their spot in infamy thanks to their illustrious pasts. Locales such as the Amityville House, Eastern State Penitentiary the Sands Hotel i...
Why Green Room is Actually a Major Disappointment
The following assumes you have seen the movie. Major spoilers ahead. Green Room is not a bad movie, and for the record, this is not an attempt to be contrarian just to garner attention. As with T...
Why I’m Excited for Leatherface (Even Though We Probably Won’t be Seeing it Anytime Soon)
There’s a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie on the way, titled Leatherface. This is the second film in the franchise to bear that moniker. And despite the confusing title, I ...
Why Now is the Best Time to be a Horror Fan
I understand a lot of the complaints against the genre right now. There are absolutely problems that cannot be overlooked. It is harder and harder for original ideas to come to life on the screen. The...
We Are The Weirdos, Mister: The Relevance Of The Craft 20 Years Later
I was 8 when The Craft first came out, which meant there wasn’t a hope in hell of my being allowed rent it from the video store. But the cover art always intrigued me, those impossibly cool...
A Brief History of Meta Horror
Meta horror is something we’re starting to see less of now, which makes sense on one hand because it was pretty much capped with Cabin in the Woods. That was the ultimate statement on horror mo...
Why the Friday the 13th CW Show Was Doomed to Fail
It seems obvious. It seems so blunt and clear on every conceivable level that a CW television series based on Friday the 13th was not going to work. The CW’s brand of horror with shows like Sup...
Big Shoes to Fill: The Problem With the Kaiju Comeback
Kaiju movies might never mean quite what they did to me as a kid. I’ll never be able to recapture that feeling, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them and that they don ...