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Nine Horror Franchises Driven by Outstanding Female Villains

Horror movie villains are traditionally male. While there are slashers where the killer turns out to be female at the end, they’re not entirely common. Even more uncommon, though, is to see female ant...

Halloween, Ginger Snaps - A Look Back at the Best and Worst of Early 2000's Horror

Ginger Snaps Helped the Horror Genre While Finding its Audience

Ginger Snaps–as I’ve written about here–is one of the best horror movies of the past fifteen years, period. It’s among the great werewolf films of all time. Yes, it was independent a...

Halloween, Ginger Snaps - A Look Back at the Best and Worst of Early 2000's Horror

Ginger Snaps is an Essential Feminist Horror Movie

Through most of history, werewolf stories and films were pretty aggressively male. They were about secret urges, hidden primal instincts. The Wolf Man is a great example of this. Larry Talbot is a man...

Seven Modern Horror Movies That Should Transition to Comics

As someone who loves comics based on horror movies, I was delighted by the news that two of my now-ten-year-old favorites—Behind the Mask and Hatchet—will be making the leap to comics. It’s a medium t...

Halloween

Cassie’s Top 5 Halloween Favorites

As someone who watches horror movies all year round, I usually reserve the month of October for Halloween-centric movies and shows. It always bugs me when so-called “Halloween horror” lists include fl...

Five Horror Actresses I’ll Watch in Anything

Following up on my previous post about the Five Horror Actors I’ll Watch in Anything, I’m back to give the same treatment to five females in the horror genre that I think are fabulous. Jus...

Why Werewolf Movies Are One of the Most Endearing Yet Unpopular Sub-Genres

Werewolf movies don’t get a lot of love. But they’re one of the classic monsters, that’s for sure. It’s not like the werewolf doesn’t exist in the public consciousness, yet it’s a rarity for lyc...