Retrospectives
Fresh Take: Looking Back on Saw After Over a Decade
I never thought I would find myself writing about Saw. As time went on, though, I got to a point where I couldn’t quite remember why that was. What was my problem with it? After a decade of dis...
30+ Years Rocking: The Return Of The Living Dead Parties On
The Return Of The Living Dead is the most punk rock zombie movie of all time. In spite of the fact the walking dead are more en vogue now than ever before, inspiring movies, TV shows, books and e...
How A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Became an Iconic Gay Horror Film (After Years of Being Hated)
A Nightmare on Elm Street was not a movie that anyone expected to become a big hi. Even after it was released, it wasn’t a huge success. It wasn’t released in enough theaters to be ...
Why Phantasm II Was a Bigger, Better Action Epic That Nobody Saw Coming
Phantasm was a movie that came out of nowhere in 1979 and really took people by surprise. Nobody really knew what to do with it. It was full of the kind of surrealism that only Italian filmmakers were...
How Curse of Frankenstein Did Re-Animator Before Re-Animator
Curse of Frankenstein is one of my favorite Frankenstein adaptation, but I’ll also admit that it’s one of the weirdest, aside from maybe the sci-fi exploits of Frankenstein Unbound. The ...
How Friday the 13th Part III Was Almost Ruined by Its Own Gimmick
Friday the 13th Part III is one of the most beloved entries in the series canon. It’s an incredibly important feature to the overall franchise, as it is the movie where Jason Voorhees find...
Script to Pieces: Steven Spielberg’s Night Skies (The Original Idea That Went on to Become Two of the Biggest Features of the ’80s)
Welcome to Script to Pieces! This is a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we will be looking at the best, most interesting, and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened....
Why Christine Brown in Drag Me to Hell Deserved Everything She Got
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell is equal parts Evil Dead and Thinner. It’s a supernatural Romani revenge story told through Raimi’s signature style. It’s over-the-top and thing...
What Made The Blair Witch Project Work (Hint: It Wasn’t the Marketing)
I will remember the marketing campaign for The Blair Witch Project as long as I live. As a kid at the dawn of the Internet age, I had never seen anything like it. This movie went out of its way to mak...