Editorials
Looking Back on the Forgotten Zebra Horror Paperback ‘Smoke’
*The following post includes discussion of racism and sexual abuse* Notorious among horror fiction aficionados are the horror novels published by Zebra in the 1980s. Just hearing the name is enough to...
Why Alice from ANOES 4 and 5 is Actually an Anime-Esque Magical Girl
In recent years, there’s been a lot of overlap between the magical girl and horror genre. While series such as Devil Hunter Yohko, Shamanic Princess, Uta∽Kata, and Red Garden actuall...
Here’s What Most Fans Don’t Comprehend About Scream
I love the Scream movies, as many fans do. I don’t think Scream, as a franchise, is necessarily divisive, but I do think that both the people who do and don’t like it are passionately vo...
Here’s Why Dee Wallace is the Undisputed Queen of Horror
What was your first Dee Wallace horror film? Was it when you hoped against hope that Lynne Wood could survive the murderous cannibals of The Hills Have Eyes (1977)? Or when you watched Karen Whit...
15 Years of Hate: Rob Zombie’s Halloween is Better Than You Remember
Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007) remains one of the most widely, and viciously, despised remakes of all time – despite how The Thing (2011) threw out its finely-tuned practical effects in f...
Why ‘The Terminator’ is Actually a Horror Film
The heroine and her love interest run in terror from the unstoppable killer. It stalks them. Their death is its only motivation. What is hunting them? Is it a monster, an alien, a slasher from the ...
Maybe Male Filmmakers Shouldn’t Tell Women’s Stories: On ‘Men’ and ‘Last Night in Soho’
The men are at it again. Or, more accurately, they’re at it more prominently, and with a significantly larger budget. Over the past year alone, two mainstream movies have been released in quick...
Why House of 1,000 Corpses is the Best Movie Tobe Hooper Never Made
Tobe Hooper’s filmography has always had an influence on divisive filmmaker, Rob Zombie. While that Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe and those over-the-top characters have never left Zombie’...
How ‘Scream’ (2022) Perfectly Passed the Torch [Editorial]
At a certain point, a film series with a beloved cast of returning legacy characters must move forward, or run the risk of becoming trite and repetitive. I love Sid, Dewey, and Gale. But if the surviv...