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44FLOOD’s Nick Idell Tells His Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies
Nick Idell is the owner of AlleyCat Comics and one of the co-founders of the hot new publisher 44FLOOD alongside Ben Templsmith, Menton3, and Kasra Ghanbari. For most, it’s a tough feat to offer a list of all-time favorite horror movies, but you can tell a lot about a person based on their taste in horror. As a special October treat, Nick chimes in with his top 10 favorite horror films of all time with running commentary. Check it out below!
10. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
For years, I couldn’t get this movie out of my head. So many haunting images of Jacob’s (Tim Robbins) bizarre hallucinations as he barely clings to what he thinks is reality. There’s something about a movie when you never truly know what’s going on until the very end, and when the end finally comes, it wasn’t what you expected at all.
9. Dead Alive (1992)
One of the most entertaining and gory movies that I have ever seen. Director Peter Jackson creates the perfect mixture of humor, horror and buckets and buckets of guts. Who doesn’t love to see an entire German Shepherd swallowed whole by a dear sweet old zombified lady?
8. Black Christmas (1974)
A perfect example of how powerful a film can be without showing the audience everything. What they come up with in their minds is always more frightening than anything you can show them. This film proves that the most important thing isn’t why a killer is murdering everyone, it’s the fact that he’s murdering everyone…RUN.
7. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
I think more than anything, this is a horror fan’s horror movie. So many winks and nods to everything horror nestled in a HP Lovecraft/Stephen King meat pie! Plus…it’s John Carpenter.
6. The Fly (1986)
Everything you could want in a David Cronenberg movie and then some. I saw this movie when I was way to young and loved every dripping, oozing second of it. A far superior version than the original, and in my opinion one of Cronenberg’s best.
5. Suspiria (1977)
This was the first Dario Argento movie that I saw, and then it was all over. I immediately went out and watched all the rest. Suspiria is in a league of it’s own, completely immersing the viewer in a world unlike any other. A must see.
4. The Mist (2007)
It only took one viewing of The Mist to move it quickly up to my top 5. By far, one of the greatest modern horror movies. Frank Darabont is a genius director. The cast is perfect, and the movie as a whole is incredible. Do yourself a favor and watch the black and white version!
3. The Evil Dead (1981)
I was at a sleepover when I was 12 when everyone else decided to turn in. I wasn’t tired, so I decided to put on one of the movies that we rented. That movie was The Evil Dead…and it scared the shit out of me. Thank the gods that all my friends were asleep. I never would have heard the end of it if they saw me cover my eyes and jump that many times.
2. Alien (1979)
What can I say about Alien that hasn’t already been said? It’s absolutely amazing. It’s beautiful, it’s terrifying, and it will always be one of my favorite movies. It single handedly made a horror kid into a sci-fi kid…well, not completely. I even named my daughter Ripley.
1. The Thing (1982)
I came home from trick or treating when I was 10. My mom made me some soup and asked if I wanted to stay up with her and watch scary movies. Of course, my answer was yes. It was a John Carpenter marathon, and Halloween was just ending. The Thing was next, and let’s just say I didn’t finish my soup. But I did find my favorite horror movie of all time.
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‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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