There’s a fun safety in horror movies that feature monsters or otherworldly creatures, because they don’t exist in the real world. But a horror movie based...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects...
When looking back over major trends in horror throughout the decades, it’s clear that horror, like most things, is cyclical. Usually, it’s the major success of...
Time is running down on HBO’s Game of Thrones, bringing eight seasons of fantasy, drama, political intrigue, adventure, violence and death to a close. An adaptation...
The road to bringing Joe Hill’s sprawling bestselling novel NOS4A2 to life has been as long and winding as Charlie Manx’s travels to and from Christmasland,...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects...
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark,...
The nature of motherhood presents fertile ground of fears for horror to explore. There are countless genre movies that explore the horrors of giving birth, of...
Leave it to Stephen King to take otherwise benign things like a Plymouth Fury or loveable Saint Bernard and turn them into objects of unrelenting terror....
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark,...
Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, the Devil – whatever you call him, there are few recurring representations of evil as powerful or as fear-inducing as the ruler...
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark,...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects...
If you haven’t caught up with the latest episode of Game of Thrones, “The Long Night”, don’t worry; no major overarching plot points or character fates...
So far, writer/director Joe Begos’ films have worn their retro influences on their sleeve while weaving in Begos’ high energy style drenched in gore. His debut,...
The weather is getting warmer and the Avengers are assembling once more, which can only mean one thing: summer is nearly here. And what a summer...
Nearly a full month after The Matrix arrived in theaters in March of 1999 and kickstarted a trilogy that would shatter box office records, another sci-fi...
As the producer behind the V/H/S films, co-producer of The Devil’s Candy, and producer/director behind anthologies Southbound and XX, Roxanne Benjamin has been well versed in...
There’s an old quote by French poet Charles Baudelaire, made popular in Christopher McQuarrie’s The Usual Suspects, that goes something like, “The greatest trick the Devil...
It’s not always the scares that make our favorite horror movies stand out, but scenes or sequences that bring quotable lines of dialogue, thrilling action, uplifting...
The Weeping Woman, or La Llorona, is a haunting figure in Latin American folklore that has terrified generations. The ghost of a woman who once drowned...
Of all the many subsets and genre mashups of horror, the horror western seems like a match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on your perspective....
A ghostly woman, with long black hair and dressed all in white, wanders alone at night wailing for her lost children. Children that she drowned. That...
Of all the horror icons to emerge from the ‘80s, killer doll Chucky has had one of the most unique cinematic journeys over the course of...
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