horror films
Friends ‘Til The End: The Legacy Of Child’s Play
By the late 1980’s, horror had gone pretty stale. In some ways it was to be expected. The ‘80’s were a golden decade for genre movies. The major franchises had all cemented themse...
Remake Comparison – Evil Dead
The Evil Dead remake is tough to compare with the original film because it is a very different movie—even a very different kind of movie—despite having the original creators involved. It...
Top Ten Horror Films of 1984
Thirty years ago this year, horror was in a very different place. It really was. Might even have been a better place, but there’s still plenty of life in the genre right now. Still, the mid-80&...
“They’re All Going To Laugh At You” – A Retrospective On Carrie
Halfway through writing his debut novel, convinced that he knew nothing of the female experience, a writer threw the entire manuscript into the trash. The writer was Stephen King and the novel was Car...
Top Ten Underrated Horror Sequels
[soliloquy id=”11361″] Good or bad, horror sequels are plentiful. Some are almost universally embraced by fans, some are almost universally hated. And there are some that simply get a wors...
Friday The 13th Part 2 Retrospective- An Overlooked And Essential Slasher Film
While it was a big success in theaters, Friday the 13th Part 2 doesn’t seem as widely regarded by any but the fairly hardcore horror fans. People don’t want Jason in the potato sack, as t...
Top Five Horror Trilogies
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...
Wishmaster – Be Careful What You Wish For
Wishmaster was the first directorial effort from Robert Kurtzman (the “K” in KNB) and features a script by Peter Atkins (writer of Hellraiser II, III, and IV) and is produced by Wes Crav...
Top Five Lucio Fulci Films
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....