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Five Stephen King Villains That Still Give Us Nightmares
Stephen King has created a wealth of monsters over the years. With countless novels under his belt, he is the most prolific living author, regardless of genre. He is the undisputed master of mode...
Seven Jump Scares That Have Never Lost Their Impact
Jump scares are incredibly hard to pull off, which is interesting, because they’re so often criticized as being used to for easy, cheap moments to get a reaction out of the audience. A jump sca...
The Six Most Baffling Stephen King Sequels
Stephen King is responsible for more film adaptations than any other living author. And most of the adapted works are from his horror catalogue. Most horror movies have sequels. Because of t...
The Saw is Family: Remembering Tobe Hooper
John Carpenter, Wes Craven, George Romero, Tobe Hooper. These weren’t just the first horror directors I knew, they were—other than Steven Spielberg—the first directors I knew, per...
A Drinking Problem: Why Return to Salem’s Lot is One of the Most Bats–t Sequels Ever Made
Despite being a made-for-TV miniseries, Salem’s Lot is one of the pinnacles of the vampire genre. It’s iconic. Often hailed as one of the best Stephen King adaptations, as well as one of...
Lonely Roads, Dark Towers, and the Salem’s Lot Franchise We Could Have Had
Salem’s Lot is one of Stephen King’s simplest novels in terms of the actual plot: a small Maine town is invaded by vampires. That’s the basic crux of the entire story. Yet, it...
Eight Horror Movie Locations So Powerful They Felt Like Characters
Location is extremely important in a horror movie. More often than not, they are isolated, confined places, which is what sparks the horror itself. Sometimes these places become so characterized as ev...
Horror Movie Kids We’d Love to See as Adults
Everyone wonders sometimes what happened after the end of their favorite horror movies. It’s natural. If we care about the characters, we want to see where and how they ended up. It’s pa...
Horror Backstories That Would Make Great Prequels
The sinister backstory is a large part of just about any work of horror. Sometimes these tidbits of information don’t work, other times they are more interesting than the movie’s ac...
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