horror films
Seven Spooky Documentaries to Round Out Your Halloween Season
Everyone loves to watch their favorite horror movies, their favorite Halloween TV specials and even read their favorite scary stories when October rolls around. But doing enough of this can sometimes ...
What Made Michael Myers Such a Perfectly Simple Villain in the Original Halloween
There’s no denying, especially this time of year, that Halloween is an iconic and revered classic. It’s one of the most highly regarded horror films of all time. It’s not an effor...
Why Critters is an Unexpected but Highly Effective Home Invasion Movie
Critters came around at an interesting time. It’s often cited as being a total rip-off of Gremlins—and you can kind of get that from the title. But other than a montage of the little mon...
Brian Yuzna Returns With New Horror Movie ‘The Plastic Surgeon’
Bride of Re-Animator, Society, Return of the Living Dead 3 and The Dentist director Brian Yuzna should be well-known to fans of ’80s horror. In addition to his features as directo...
Script to Pieces: David Cronenberg’s Frankenstein
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Paranormal Activity: Does it Hold Up?
When Paranormal Activity burst onto the scene, it felt as big as The Blair Witch Project. In fact, it was the same movie of that type that I’d seen since Blair Witch, except for a few straight-...
Script to Pieces: Tales from the Darkside 2
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Jack Goes Home Is A Satisfying, Slow Burn Thriller
Jack Goes Home focuses on the titular character, Jack Thurlowe (Scream 4’s Rory Culkin), an eccentric writer and artist anticipating the birth of his first child, from his beautiful fiancé...
Seven Dead Franchises That Should be Revived
Franchises are a large and admittedly crucial part of the horror genre. The series that have spawned the most movies tend to resonate in people’s minds, for good or bad. Jason Voorhees, Fr...