As the post-mortem video left by the franchise’s best character, Randy Meeks, states in Scream 3, “trilogies are a rarity in the horror field.” Unlike anything else in Scream 3, h...
Lucio Fulci shares the “godfather of gore” title with fellow director Herschell Gordon Lewis. But Fulci may win between the two of them solely for the visceral response his movies evoke....
[soliloquy id=”10971″] Video nasties were the general term for the movies that were banned in the UK in the early 1980’s, criticized for the violence and sexuality. Some of them wer...
[soliloquy id=”10849″] With more film adaptations than any other fictional character, Dracula has been portrayed by a vast number of actors over the years. Some of them have were classic a...
[soliloquy id=”10851″] Wes Craven is one of the major maestros of the horror genre, having provided it with two of its most lucrative franchises (Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream) as wel...
[soliloquy id=”10838″] Twenty years ago, the genre was in a very different place than it is now. There were a lot less horror movies being made. The independent video market was just findi...
In the eighties, horror movies took off in a big way, garnering mainstream success and becoming mega-hits for the first time. It all started in 1981, after the circulation of success between powerhous...
Sometimes sequels work and sometimes they don’t. In horror, there’s a whole lot of both because there are more sequels within the genre than anywhere else. Some sequels start out on a ce...
For almost a decade, it’s seemed as if horror movies were only great on opposite years. 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 were all fantastic years for genre films while the years in between them seemed...