Retrospectives
Why Dracula 1979 is One of the Most Endearing Yet Unfaithful Adaptations
John Badham’s 1979 version of Dracula is known as a classic and was a tremendous hit. It’s beautifully shot, beautifully acted, with truly spectacular sets. It also has nothing to do wit...
Why The Howling is a Non-Traditional Werewolf Movie (Even Now)
In general, The Howling is considered to be one of the two best werewolf movies ever made. It is constantly ranked beside An American Werewolf in London, ironic considering that the two movies came ou...
Why The Craft is a Cult Favorite (Almost Twenty Years Later)
If you ask almost anyone to list their favorite horror films from the 1990’s and The Craft will likely come up. It’s beloved by horror fans and even non-horror fans. It’s bec...
Why Shocker Was a Surprisingly Personal Movie for Wes Craven
Shocker, in some ways, feels like Wes Craven’s most commercial movie. The first thing that everyone usually points out, once they get done complimenting the soundtrack, is that it was a clear a...
Why It’s Perfectly OK to Call Predator a Horror Movie
It’s one of the biggest, most influential science fiction epics of all time. Predator already is, without question, a blending of genres. It is all-out action and all-out sci-fi at the sam...
Why John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness Was a Surprising Twist on Devil Movies
John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness was an unexpected movie that came about at an unexpected time. Through the 1970’s and early ‘80’s, satanic horror had been exhausted to ...
Why The Dead Zone Was a Surprise For Everyone Involved
The Dead Zone was made just as Stephen King adaptations were starting to become pretty hit or miss. People weren’t necessarily expecting each new movie taken from the author’s work ...
Why Bubba Ho-Tep Was an Unexpected Success (And Why We’ll Never See the Sequel)
Bubba Ho-Tep is easily one of the biggest cult classics to come out of the previous decade. As far as low budget indie flicks go, it was a huge success. Nobody really expected it, but that was part of...
Why Scream 2’s Deconstruction of Sequels is Even More Meta Than the First
Considering just how quickly after the first it was made, Scream 2 is a movie that probably shouldn’t have worked. At the very least, it shouldn’t have worked half as well as it did. It ...