90s Horror
The Good Son Review [Rabid Dog’s House]
The Rabid Dog’s House is a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where contributor Justin Steele uncovers hidden gems, lost classics, and overlooked indie offerings. Flying solo or with the occasional gu...
Sleepy Hollow Should be Remembered as One of Tim Burton’s Best!
Almost everything Tim Burton has done in his career has been influenced by Gothic horror. His influences stretch back from the Hammer era to silent classics like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. While he ...
In the Mouth of Madness is One of the Most Underrated Meta-Horrors
Scream and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare are widely regarded as the two movies that kicked off meta-horror in the 1990’s. Both were, in their own way, deconstructions of the genre. But despite having the...
Idle Hands is an Essential Horror Comedy That Never Found its Audience
Horror in the 1990’s was a very different thing from the ‘80’s. Where the previous decade produced cult classic after cult classic (with the titles that didn’t make it to theaters becoming big hits on...
Return of the Living Dead 3 is a Criminally Underrated Zombie Film (Here’s Why)
In the name alone, Return of the Living Dead 3 sounds like a horror movie worth avoiding. Sure, Return of the Living Dead is a heralded cult classic, but how much room to grow is there in a franchise ...
Pocket Monsters: Why Mighty Max Was One of the Weirdest, Greatest Toy Fads of the ’90s
There’s a lot you probably remember about the ‘90s. Goosebumps. Animorphs. Dunkaroos. Dawson’s Creek. Crystal Pepsi—but there are a lot of things you probably don’t remember, even if they were popular...
3 Gateway Genres Scream (Re)Introduced Audiences To
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this ...
Macho Monster Hunters: Is John Carpenter’s Vampires a Sexist Movie?!
This is an extremely tough question for me to consider. Vampires came out at a time when I was only dimly aware of who John Carpenter was. It was the film that cemented him as a presence in my young m...
Summer Lovin’: Why I Know What You Did Last Summer Doesn’t Deserve the Hate it Gets
The 1990s is not known as being one of the best times in horror history, but the truth is that it actually gave us a lot of great stuff. From big studio releases like Silence of the Lambs, Candyman an...
