horror movies
Overlooked Performances in Horror
There are many reasons audiences love to watch horror movies. Whether it is the attraction of an auteur director such as John Carpenter or just a compulsive need to add up the body count, each audienc...
Seven Unexpectedly Feminist Horror Movies
Horror is not an inherently misogynist genre, despite what critics, parental groups and conservative personalities have been trying to say for decades. There are some misogynist works and always probl...
Krueger’s Coming Back! – The Confessions Of Fred
2010 was the last time we saw Freddy Krueger up on the big screen and it may be a while before we ever see Freddy up there again. Though all is not lost, Scream Factory artist Nathan Thomas Milliner h...
Why Bubba Ho-Tep Was an Unexpected Success (And Why We’ll Never See the Sequel)
Bubba Ho-Tep is easily one of the biggest cult classics to come out of the previous decade. As far as low budget indie flicks go, it was a huge success. Nobody really expected it, but that was part of...
Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Laybrinth and Why Guillermo del Toro is Fixated on the Spanish Civil War
Different creators are attracted to different things, whether they be ideas or periods in history or even places. Stephen King has written the bulk of his works around the same small New England towns...
New on Netflix
New on Netflix is a weekly feature here at Wicked Horror where we look through the newest additions to everyone’s favorite streaming service. This week continues to bring us a couple of nice tre...
Seven Overlooked Horror Movies from Mainstream Directors
We all love our horror directors, the ones we consider to be the true masters of the genre. But even if they don’t always want to admit it, every filmmaker has one horror project under their be...
Six Writer/Director Duos That Prove Two Heads Can be Better Than One
Generally speaking, the last person the director wants on set is the writer. This is why many writers often try to cast themselves in a role in the film, because nobody wants them around otherwis...
Why Scream 2’s Deconstruction of Sequels is Even More Meta Than the First
Considering just how quickly after the first it was made, Scream 2 is a movie that probably shouldn’t have worked. At the very least, it shouldn’t have worked half as well as it did. It ...