Features
Social Media, Christchurch, and White Nationalism
On March 15th, 2019 a lone gunman walked into two separate Islamic Mosques during Friday Prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was arrested 21 minutes after the first emergency call, but in that sho...
The Stuff is Food Horror at its Finest [Retrospective]
Larry Cohen is a filmmaker who just does not get the credit he deserves. His pictures are all too often labeled as B-Movies. But while they may be campy, it’s a very intentional camp. He has a ...
20 Years On, Lake Placid Chomps Through Its Contemporaries [Retrospective]
20 years ago, in the magical summer of 1999, two, life-changingly brilliant creature features were released within just 12 days of each other; Deep Blue Sea, of which I am the unofficial, lifelong pub...
Ronen Landa Discusses His Hair-Raising Score for the Upcoming Film 1BR
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. That’s the premise for David Marmor’s new horror film, 1BR, which will be premiering at Fantasia International Film Festival July 18th.&#...
Wealthy Women Who Kill: Three Terrifying Stories of Female Serial Killers
Wealthy women who kill oddly tied in this semester when I asked my criminal justice students about what topics they would like to cover. While picking the topic gives the students a break in the humdr...
Not Quite Horror: High Life (2019)
Not Quite Horror is back from the dead. After resting for a bit in its kind-of creepy but still-normal-enough-to-pass-as-regular crypt, our biweekly series returns. In each installment, Joey Keogh wil...
Script to Pieces: Hammer Films’ Vampirella
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Second Opinion: Child’s Play (2019) is An Insult to Chucky
Child’s Play is an institution. The series that began with the seminal, Tom Holland-directed 1988 flick is still chugging along to this day with the latest installment, 2017’s Cult...
Horror Tourism: Take The Romero Road Trip
With summer in full swing, most of us are planning our yearly vacations. A time to get away, see family and friends, and genuinely forget our troubles for a spell. What I personally love about this ti...