Retrospectives
How Dario Argento’s Opera Explores the Dark Side of Showbusiness
Opera is Dario Argento’s modern update on The Phantom of the Opera. More than that though, it is representative of the film industry and the nature of show business as a whole. It can even be s...
How The Burning Beat Friday the 13th At its Own Game
After the success of Halloween, Sean Cunningham—in attempt to recreate that success—directed Friday the 13th. From there, the slasher craze of the early 1980’s was born. Movies li...
Script to Screen – How Gremlins Became the Ultimate Family Horror Movie
Gremlins is widely regarded as one of the most beloved horror-tinged family films of all time. It’s a fun, exciting adventure movie as well as a holiday classic. Of course, it has its suspensef...
Why Terror Train is a Much Better New Year’s Horror Than New Year’s Evil
Horror fans love to watch movies set around a certain time of year. Even if those films are terrible, we give them a go. For every Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night there’s a Jack ...
How Interview With the Vampire Defined A-List Horror in the 1990s
Horror movies in the late ‘90s were defined by Scream. Everything followed on its heels and tried to imitate that movie. I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine, Cherry Falls, ...
Don’t Wanna Dream No More: How A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Empowered the Slasher Genre
The slasher genre has always fallen under a critical eye for showcasing the deaths of teenagers as gratuitous fun. They are generalized as having no characterization and no depth of any kind. The...
Giallo Madness: Black Belly of the Tarantula
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....
Mannequin Challenge: Reflecting on the Beautiful Weirdness of Tourist Trap
Most horror films from the 1970s fall into certain set categories. Some of them, admittedly, created those categories, but that’s still where we typically consider them to reside. For example, ...
How Carnosaur Beat Jurassic Park to the Punch (We Can’t Believe it Either)
Carnosaur is widely known as a rip off of Jurassic Park. The idea makes sense. After all, Jurassic Park was the biggest hit of 1993 and it built up a lot of hype even before it was released, making it...