Retrospectives
120 Years and Counting: Why Dracula is More Modern Than It’s Given Credit For
Believe it or not, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is 120 years old. With the amount of impact it’s had on pop culture, from movies and television, books and comics and video games, to cereals, to...
How Friday the 13th Part 2 Casually Improves on the Original
Friday the 13th took the world by storm in a way that was completely unexpected, especially by the filmmakers themselves. They had, by their own admission, not necessarily set out to make a great movi...
The Invisible Man is Actually the Scariest Universal Monster
There are a lot of reasons why the original Universal Monsters will always be hailed as the “classic” monsters. Dracula and Frankenstein are both timeless stories and while those adaptat...
“This is Omega:” Cyberpunk and Sci-Fi Horror in Puppet Master 4 & 5
When Puppet Master was first released, it became an unexpected hit on home video, launching Full Moon as one of the premiere DTV studios of the era. The first sequel was, in some ways, a more refined ...
Looking Back on Fright Night (1985)
There’s really nothing that compares to the original Fright Night. This film is something of a vampire update on Rear Window. It marked the directorial debut of Tom Holland who had previou...
Giallo Madness: Seven Bloodstained Orchids
Giallo Madness is a recurring segment where Wicked Horror managing editor Tyler Doupe’ looks back on a noteworthy giallo from years past and makes a case for why it should be on your radar....
Exorcist III is One of the Most Overlooked Horrors of the 1990’s
The Exorcist is known in many circles as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It deserves its reputation. And given that the first follow up effort was a colossal disappointment, it made sense...
The Fog is an Impressive and Under-Appreciated Ghost Story!
John Carpenter found incredible success with Halloween, but it was not a success right away. He moved on to the next project believing that the film had been a flop. The early reviews and the early ti...
Ginger Snaps is an Essential Feminist Horror Movie
Through most of history, werewolf stories and films were pretty aggressively male. They were about secret urges, hidden primal instincts. The Wolf Man is a great example of this. Larry Talbot is a man...