halloween
Seven Pure Comfort Food Horror Movies
There’s something great about discovering a great new horror movie for the first time. The genre is huge and diverse. There’s so much happening at any given moment. Every year produces some great new ...
A Look Back at the Men Who Have Played Michael Myers
The Halloween franchise has lasted over thirty-five years and remains incredibly successful. There have been many actors to don the Michael Myers Mask and the character is one of the most infamous ant...
Why It’s so Hard to Trace the Origins of the Slasher Movie
There’s an endless debate as to what the first slasher movie actually is. Looking back on it, I think it’s a subject that warrants further investigation. But it doesn’t do any good for me to simply ju...
Every Time Dr. Sam Loomis Should Have Been Fired
Dr. Sam Loomis is arguably the most famous character in the Halloween movie franchise, next to Michael Myers. His passion and poetic allegories helped to create the mysterious persona that is The Shap...
Seven of the Most Blatantly Obvious Halloween Rip-Offs
Halloween was not the first slasher movie, there’s no real point in arguing that. We had many similar efforts before it, notably films like Black Christmas, Psycho and Peeping Tom. But what Halloween ...
Ernest Scared Stupid: A Look Back at the Campy Kiddie Horror (That Traumatized Me as a Child)
For anyone not familiar with the Ernest films, they were a comedy series aimed at children that presented a lovable idiot hick getting himself into increasingly baffling situation that simultaneously ...
Arguing Against The Legality Of McKamey Manor
Every year during the halloween season, thrill-seekers and horror enthusiasts flock in masses to haunted house attractions across the United States. Most haunted houses use similar tactics to sc...
Four Horror Sequels That Cursed Their Own Franchise
When a horror movie is hugely successful, sequels are an inevitability. Quickly after that, it can blossom into a franchise. Typically, it doesn’t take long for the films that follow to become convolu...
Five Horror Sequels that are Better the Second Time
Everyone goes into certain movies with a set of expectations. This is especially true for horror sequels. The Friday the 13th series has some entries that are unjustly maligned simply because what peo...
