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Is Dexter the hero we all need or the villain that lies within us all
Is Dexter the hero we all need or the villain that lies within us all
‘The Invisible Raptor’ Takes Itself a Little Too Seriously [Review]
With a title like The Invisible Raptor, you know what you’re getting yourself into. So why does it feel like director Mike Hermosa is holding back from going full-on, balls-to-the-wall crazy? H...
‘He Never Left’ Should Have Kept Things Simple [Review]
Horror movies are becoming too complicated, or so certain fans would have us believe. However, in the same year that gave us both the lowest-common-denominator Terrifier 3 and the life-changing Longle...
‘Sleep’ Will Be Frighteningly Familiar to New Parents [Review]
Being pregnant is horrifying enough without your partner falling apart to the extent that he’s sleepwalking, sleep-eating, and even sleep-causing-harm-to-himself-and-others. That’s the p...
Eight Times the Masters of Horror Mastered Other Genres
All horror fans have their favorite directors. We root for these guys. They’re the names we saw over and over again when we started diving into the genre. For many of us, they were the first di...
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...
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...
‘Arcadian’ Boasts Terrifying Monsters of Our Own Making [Review]
The question of whether we’ve engineered our own demise by treating the planet like garbage hangs low over Arcadian, the sprightly and fitfully frightening new movie from director Benjamin Brew...
‘Terror Train’ is a Surprisingly Innovative Slasher
The slasher subgenre boomed after the release of John Carpenter’s Halloween. Where no one was even really sure that Halloween would work—at least not in the way that it did—once i...