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Freddy Krueger Was Played by 8 Actors That Weren’t Robert Englund
Most of the modern horror icons have been played by several actors over the years. Michael Myers, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, these characters have had several people under the mask at this point. Bu...
Five of the Scariest Episodes of R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour
If you’re unfamiliar with R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, just imagine a modernized version of Goosebumps without the awful acting and lame twists. Unlike its fairly tame ’90s prede...
Jason Voorhees Has Been Played by These Actors [Men Behind the Mask]
Unlike his nemesis Freddy Krueger, Jason has never had much of a consistent portrayal on film. Sure, for awhile there it seemed things had changed. But now we’re back right where we started, wi...
Ten Horror Films Condemned by the Catholic Church
Growing up as a Southern Baptist (i.e., the kind of Christian that shows up to church hungover and 20 minutes late every Sunday morning), pretty much everything I knew about Catholic customs was culle...
Jess Franco: His Top Five Sleaziest Horror Films
This week we have opted to showcase the five sleaziest horror films of Jess Franco. Franco was the prolific director of a series of sexploitation horror pictures. Owning the title of master of sleaze ...
Seven of the Most Shockingly Unconventional Revenge Horrors
Revenge is a tricky proposition in horror cinema. It can take many different forms. Most common are supernatural slashers or rape/revenge features. Horror, being as wide and weird and fluid as it is, ...
10 Important Life Lessons We Learned From ‘The Craft’
The Craft is an institution. Whether you were eight or eighteen when you first saw it, there was something about those four young women that made you stand up and take notice. We wanted to be them and...
How Rude! Bad Manners in Horror Movies
There is no accounting for other people’s manners. Don’t be so disgusting is what my mum used to say at the dinner table while we were eating our stew and talking about a friend who coul...
These Seven Movies Were Blamed for Real-Life Crimes
Horror movies are frequently blamed for any number of things. People say that something has to be wrong with somebody who watches horror. The movies are even blamed for violence in general. If violent...