Midnight movie sendup Popcorn bears all the hallmarks of an ’80s horror movie. Fueled by nostalgia, the slasher features haunting vignettes, films within movies, a melodramatic killer, and...
Horror pairs well with any genre. Horror comedies, horror westerns, horror romance; well, you get the gist. However, in terms of maximum chills or creativity, the...
Scientist and playwright Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, published in 1666, marked the first science fiction work by a female. It chronicled a woman’s adventures in an...
In a pre-screening introduction to the Sundance world premiere with director Sion Sono, the prolific filmmaker revealed that his first English-language film wasn’t initially meant to be...
James Ashcroft’s feature directorial debut wastes no time at all cutting right to the dark heart of his grim, jaw-dropping morality thriller. Just enough time is...
Universal Horror’s The Wolf Man popularized gypsy cursed werewolf lore, but lycanthropy horror has deviated from that mythology significantly in the decades since. Writer/Director Sean Ellis revisits the...
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a seminal horror classic, notoriously made people afraid to go into the water. The blockbuster’s live shark sequences were filmed by legendary marine pioneer...
Cinema has a long history with bad seeds or sociopathic children with a vicious streak. The archetype boasts no shortage of iconic children with corrupted innocence,...
Writer/Director Ben Wheatley is one of the more unpredictable filmmakers currently working. His output tends to lean toward commercially friendly fare, like Rebecca or even High Rise, or it...
Horror excels at capturing the paranoia and claustrophobic terror of gaslighting. Protagonists struggle to trust their instincts and become unreliable narrators in the viewer’s eyes while...
Netflix’s latest true-crime series, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, chronicles the heinous crimes and search for Richard Ramirez, a serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles...
The VHS boom of the early ’80s led to the widespread distribution of horror and exploitation films that were released uncensored both in footage and marketing,...
It’s been quite the journey for Rose Glass‘s feature debut. After a highly successful and buzz-worthy festival run, her psychological, religious horror film was scheduled for U.S....
Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves, both a prequel and update to the 1981 Indonesian horror film, made international waves thanks to its potent chills and atmosphere. Anwar tackles...
Haunted hotels are nothing new in the realm of horror. Even the mere mention of the phrase instantly brings the likes of The Shining to mind. While it’s...
This Friday marks the release of not one but two psychological horror movies; The Night and the long-awaited Saint Maud. In anticipation, this week’s streaming picks belong to horror...
The ‘90s often ranks among the worst decades for horror, and if we were judging solely on 1991’s output, then the reputation would make sense. Strictly...
The boundaries of creativity are as limitless as space itself in sci-fi horror, meaning no shortage of fantastical and monstrous aliens that have terrorized the big...
Spoiler warning: The article contains plot spoilers for Promising Young Woman. Emerald Fennell‘s directorial feature debut quickly shifted from one of last year’s most anticipated to...
The chances are that if you grew up in the ’90s, you were a fan of the highly popular Power Rangers TV series. Based on the Japanese tokusatsu Super...
The ‘70s consistently ranks among the very best decades for horror. The genuine horrors of the Vietnam war permeated pop culture, which, along with other socio-political...
Social thrillers or horror movies use the genre to highlight oppression in various forms. Beneath the scares lies a far more horrifying reality. In the 1995-set...
Forty years later, the one thing people remember most about David Cronenberg‘s Scanners is its iconic head exploding head scene. It’s understandable; it’s a gory, shocking moment...
Famous fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” lends itself well to horror, as most do, thanks to its meek girl traveling alone in the woods while...
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