Features
Story Within a Story: Why the Structured Narrative of Candyman Works so Well
Candyman is, without a doubt, one of the best horror films of the 1990’s. This was a decade in which horror was constantly questioning and trying to redefine itself. What had worked in the 1980...
6 True Crime Podcasts to Listen to After Season One of Serial
Feeling a sort of void in your life now that you’ve finished season one of Serial? Nobody blames you. But, you’ll need something to satisfy that true crime hunger you have, right? Fe...
Urban Legend: Giallo Inspired Horror or ’90s Slasher Trash?
The 1990s were a significantly under-appreciated time period for horror. Although the decade brought us classic titles like Scream, Candyman, and Dead Alive, it is often maligned and lo...
Script to Pieces: Stephen Norrington’s Ghost Rider
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Iain De Caestecker Talks Overlord and Turning Into a Monster [Exclusive]
Overlord is a critically praised (and sadly under-seen) World War II set horror movie that hit theatres last November. The cast includes Wyatt Russell, Jovan Adepo, Mathilde Olliver, John Magaro,...
Is Scream Based on a True Story?
It’s August 24th, 1990. Sonja Larson and Christina Powell were friends, roommates and freshman to be at the University of Florida in Gainesville. They had their whole lives ahead ...
Not Quite Horror: Destroyer (2018)
Not Quite Horror is back from the dead. After resting for a bit in its kind-of creepy but still-normal-enough-to-pass-as-regular crypt, our biweekly series returns. In each installment, J...
Script to Pieces: The Lost Girls
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Nicolas Pesce Talks Piercing [Exclusive Interview]
Director Nicolas Pesce’s new film Piercing is an adaptation of the Ryu Murakami novel of the same name, the twisting story of a man with sinister intentions who hires a call girl hoping to fulf...