Horror mashups have become increasingly popular in recent years, although they have always existed. Whether they combine genres, characters or simply mash together the monsters themselves, they’...
Bram Stoker is often credited with creating the vampire genre with his seminal novel, Dracula. But this is far from true. Stories about vampires go back as far as we have stories, at least to anc...
In recent years, there has been a notion that vampires have all but disappeared from the horror genre, instead having moved on to dominate the field of paranormal romance in the wake of smash hit youn...
Sequels are an inevitability in the horror genre. If something is even moderately successful, and sometimes even if it’s not, a sequel is pretty much guaranteed. This was especially true in the...
The Puppet Master series is one of the longest-running franchises in horror history. After the collapse of Charles Band’s Empire Pictures, Puppet Master gave birth to a new indie horror company...
With so many superheroes all over film and television right now, I think we can shed the once-perceived notion that comics are just made for kids. Clearly, they’re not. Everyone loves these char...
Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut The Gift has taken the horror, and mainstream, press by storm, garnering 4-star reviews across the board. Notoriously fussy critics are comparing it to Hit...
Kids’ horror tends to go overlooked, especially by older fans. The children who watch these film as their stepping stone into the genre tend to forget about them as soon as they move onto the m...
Most TV pilots don’t ever make it to series. Hundreds of ideas go through the process of shooting and editing but never actually make it to air. Even when only looking at genre-specif...