Classic Horror
Early Slasher Movies That Should Have Become Classics
There are not a lot of slasher movies that have become classics in the horror genre. Psycho is widely thought of as the grand-daddy of the sub-genre and is viewed as one of the best hor...
Five Horror Films from 1974 That Helped Define the Genre
The 1970’s witnessed a massive change in the landscape of horror cinema. This was horror for a post-Vietnam world. The atomic age horrors were gone. Ancient ruined castles and Gothic chillers si...
Horrifying Visions, Betrayal and Familiar Faces in Stranger Things: SIX #2
Y’all. Y’all! Things are really heating up in the new issue of Stranger Things: SIX. Just when I thought I couldn’t love this sinister prequel anymore we get a delightfully weir...
Why Ghostbusters 2 is Actually Kind of Awesome
Ghostbusters 2 gets a lot of hate. I mean, it’s gotten hate for the past thirty years. And yeah, as you could tell by the title, I’m here to explain to you why Ghostbusters 2, the b...
The Changeling is a Classic and Underrated Haunted House Tale [Retrospective]
When a tragic accident costs John (George C. Scott) his wife and daughter, he believes a change of scenery will do him good. He subsequently moves from his east coast dwelling to Washington State. Onc...
Tourist Trap is a Lost Classic of ’70s Horror Cinema [Retrospective]
When a group of friends experience a breakdown alongside the road, they wind up at a tourist attraction called Slausen’s Lost Oasis, which is also home to a sinister Wax Museum. The oasis used ...
Prom Night (1980) is an Average Revenge-Soaked Slasher [Retrospective]
The accidental death of a young girl is so haunting to the killer in Prom Night (1980), that six years after the event, he strikes out and seeks vigilante justice against the group of friends involved...
Mosquito is a Shameless, Goofy Good Time
If there’s one low budget monster movie that people my age tend to remember, even if they’re not necessarily horror fans, it’s Mosquito. I can’t really fathom why that is, ...
What a Croc: Revisiting Lake Placid
While killer animal movies are among the most popular and prevalent horror offerings being produced today, very few are actually remembered as classics. Really, there’s Jaws and that’s a...