horror movies
How Alien Raised the Bar for Visuals in Horror
Throughout most of the 1970s, horror was very focused on realism. There was a transition period in the previous decade that moved the genre away from the Gothic Hammer films, truly cementing horror in...
Why All Directors Doing Genre Throwbacks Need to Study The Guest
I’ve been a fan of Adam Wingard since I first saw A Horrible Way to Die. I had no idea what to expect from that film, but the character work really impressed me. The buzz for You’re Next...
Eight Endings That Promised Sequels (And Didn’t Deliver)
Since the early ‘80s, it’s been tradition for any commercial horror film to try and set up a franchise. Most of them do. When we think of horror franchises, we tend to think of cornersto...
Why Werner Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu’ is Actually the Better Movie
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is a masterpiece of silent cinema. It’s one of the all-time great horror films. While it did not get the rights to the characters of the novel Dracula from the St...
‘The Sacrifice Game’ is a Delightfully Chilly Festive Treat [Review]
The Sacrifice Game, Jenn Wexler’s highly-anticipated follow-up to her gnarly punk rock slasher The Ranger, takes the overdone but still amusing “god forbid women have hobbies” mem...
Five Films That Prove You Should Never Step Foot in the Water Again – Even the Shower
Winter is always an interesting time on the east coast of the United States. It is a time when many of us find ourselves uttering phrases like “it’s too cold to be alive” each time r...
In the Mouth of Madness is a Tragically Underrated Meta Horror
Scream and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare are widely regarded as the two movies that kicked off meta-horror in the 1990s. Both were, in their own way, deconstructions of the genre. But despite havi...
Eight Movies from the New Millennium that are Already Classics
People are very quick to complain about the current state of horror. Nothing’s scary anymore, everything’s found footage, a glorified torture flick, or a remake. I get it. Theatrical hor...
Horror Movie Spinoffs You Won’t Believe Really Happened
Once a horror movie officially pulls out all the stops and becomes a franchise, things get pretty weird, pretty quickly. The people in charge will do whatever they deem necessary to keep that franchis...