Ginger Snaps
Nine Horror Franchises Driven by Outstanding Female Villains
Horror movie villains are traditionally male. While there are slashers where the killer turns out to be female at the end, they’re not entirely common. Even more uncommon, though, is to see fem...
Ginger Snaps Helped the Horror Genre While Finding its Audience
Ginger Snaps–as I’ve written about here–is one of the best horror movies of the past fifteen years, period. It’s among the great werewolf films of all time. Yes, it was indepe...
Ginger Snaps is an Essential Feminist Horror Movie
Through most of history, werewolf stories and films were pretty aggressively male. They were about secret urges, hidden primal instincts. The Wolf Man is a great example of this. Larry Talbot is a man...
Seven Modern Horror Movies That Should Transition to Comics
As someone who loves comics based on horror movies, I was delighted by the news that two of my now-ten-year-old favorites—Behind the Mask and Hatchet—will be making the leap to comics. I...
Cassie’s Top 5 Halloween Favorites
As someone who watches horror movies all year round, I usually reserve the month of October for Halloween-centric movies and shows. It always bugs me when so-called “Halloween horror” li...
Five Horror Actresses I’ll Watch in Anything
Following up on my previous post about the Five Horror Actors I’ll Watch in Anything, I’m back to give the same treatment to five females in the horror genre that I think are fabulous. Jus...
Why Werewolf Movies Are One of the Most Endearing Yet Unpopular Sub-Genres
Werewolf movies don’t get a lot of love. But they’re one of the classic monsters, that’s for sure. It’s not like the werewolf doesn’t exist in the public conscio...