Features
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...
Church of Xul delivers occult goodness [Album Review]
Coming off the successful run of their Billboard charting debut, Satan’s favorite hip-hop trio, Alla Xul Elu are back. Recently released, Church of Xul is a seven track ride through the deprave...
10 Years Later, Drag Me to Hell Boasts Brilliant SFX and a Dodgy Premise
2009 was kind of a dodgy year for horror (Birdemic! The Friday the 13th remake with stoner Jason! Lesbian Vampire Killers!) but amidst the money-raking studio fare a few gems stood out, not least of w...