Editorials
Practical Matters: The Frustrating Story of the ‘Thing’ Prequel We Could Have Had
2011’s The Thing has its fans. I can’t say that it’s totally maligned because if anything, more people seem to be discovering it over time. It didn’t do great in theaters a...
10-Years Later, ‘The Collection’ Still Rips
Making a good horror sequel is tough, so major kudos to The Collection for throwing out the rulebook and doing something defiantly different and, at times, totally bizarre with a threadbare premise es...
How Teen Wolf Completely Undermines Lycanthrope Lore [And Why We Still Love It]
Lucky for Teen Wolf, the early 1980s were a grand time for movies about lycanthropes.Though the subgenre forged its roots nearly 70-years prior with the aptly titled The Werewolf (1913), something was...
Fishhooks at Dawn: I Know What You Did Last Summer Turns 25
The first time I watched I Know What You Did Last Summer was at a slumber party. I couldn’t have been more than 12 and, needless to say, I saw most of the movie from behind the sofa. As an adul...
Looking Back on the Forgotten Zebra Horror Paperback ‘Smoke’
*The following post includes discussion of racism and sexual abuse* Notorious among horror fiction aficionados are the horror novels published by Zebra in the 1980s. Just hearing the name is enough to...
Why Alice from ANOES 4 and 5 is Actually an Anime-Esque Magical Girl
In recent years, there’s been a lot of overlap between the magical girl and horror genre. While series such as Devil Hunter Yohko, Shamanic Princess, Uta∽Kata, and Red Garden actuall...
Here’s What Most Fans Don’t Comprehend About Scream
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...
Here’s Why Dee Wallace is the Undisputed Queen of Horror
What was your first Dee Wallace horror film? Was it when you hoped against hope that Lynne Wood could survive the murderous cannibals of The Hills Have Eyes (1977)? Or when you watched Karen Whit...
15 Years of Hate: Rob Zombie’s Halloween is Better Than You Remember
Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007) remains one of the most widely, and viciously, despised remakes of all time – despite how The Thing (2011) threw out its finely-tuned practical effects in f...