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Is It Just Me Or Is Scream 3 A Decent Sequel?

In this new, monthly series, a Wicked Horror writer presents an unpopular opinion about a particular genre offering and asks the oft-repeated question, “Is it just me?” In this installment, Joey Keogh...

Jamie Lee Curtis in H20

Why Halloween H20 is a Surprisingly Sincere Love Letter to the Original

The Halloween franchise took many twists and turns as it spawned sequel after sequel through the 1980’s. Halloween II followed up the original as closely as possible, Halloween III took things in an e...

Killer appears in A New Beginning

Why A New Beginning is the Most Unsung Friday the 13th Movie

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is, as I have written before, is the ultimate Jason Voorhees movie. It’s the perfect embodiment of all things Friday the 13th. It did not, however, deliver on the pr...

Poster for Jen and Sylvia Soska's See No Evil 2.

Five Recent Movies That Prove the Slasher Film Isn’t Dead

The heyday of the slasher was from roughly 1981 to 1984. This is an extremely short amount of time, but there were plenty of movies that helped to define that genre well before that. Psycho, Texas Cha...

Horror Remakes That Missed the Point of the Original

Horror movie remakes can be both good and bad simultaneously. Some reboots are wonderful technical achievements but fail at recapturing the magic of the original. Many remakes may even look good on pa...

American Mary poster

Five Great Horror Films From Female Directors

To be blunt, there simply aren’t enough women working in horror. Female writers and directors are a rarity. That doesn’t mean that women aren’t interested in horror, far from it. It just means they’re...

Cover art for Video Violence on VHS

Overlooked and Underrated: Video Violence

Video Violence is probably the best of the shot-on-video horror sub-genre, which is not great by definition. It’s a different mentality, it’s true no-budget filmmaking and the movies alway...

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter: The Essential Jason Movie

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Of course the film turned out to not be as the title promised. But nonetheless it is a fan-favorite and an essential slasher...

Varsity Blood is an Homage to ’80s Horror

Varsity Blood centers on a high school cheerleading squad and football team that take to an abandoned farmhouse for a Halloween celebration. They plan to screw, smoke drugs, and paint the town red. Wh...