Last year, over 670 films were released in America, and that number has been steadily increasing every year since the end of the pandemic. That’s why...
The Academy Awards aren’t exactly an objective measure of cinematic quality, but it’s always gratifying to see hard-working artists be rewarded for their output – especially...
Humanity has been sharing stories about horrific monsters since time immemorial, and some of these tales have become so ingrained in culture that they end up...
Presented by Neon’s The Monkey, Bloody Disgusting is celebrating this weekend’s release of Osgood Perkins’ highly anticipated horror with Stephen King Week. Yesterday, Jenn Addams looked at...
Many of our favorite Masters of Horror actually found themselves being accidentally thrust into this position after an early genre success, with very few of them...
Presented by Neon’s The Monkey, Bloody Disgusting is celebrating this Friday’s release of Osgood Perkins’ highly anticipated horror with Stephen King Week. Yesterday, Jenn Adams talked King’s creepy...
There’s always a risk of ending up on the wrong side of history whenever you jump on a proverbial bandwagon. For instance, Spaghetti Westerns were once...
Compromises are made whenever art and industry collide. This is especially true for movies, as it takes an insane amount of resources to produce even the...
Like most nerdy kids, I went through a Greek mythology phase in my youth. And among geeky disappointments like finding out that Hercules was actually a...
I believe it takes a well-developed sense of humor to be a horror fan. After all, none of us would be able to sleep if we...
Modern role-playing games are nearly whimsical in their depictions of magical powers and playable fantasy races, but the origins of the genre are much darker than...
There are more adaptations of Frankenstein than most other horror books combined. That’s why original takes on Mary Shelley’s vision of mad science and reanimated corpses...
Every horror fan has to start somewhere. And while some of us were immediately immersed in scary media from a young age, others were eased into...
Thanks to a fluke in Night of the Living Dead’s original copyright notice, the modern concept of “zombies” has been in the public domain since the...
Stories mutate over time, adapting to both storytellers and their audience in often unpredictable ways. This is precisely why folks will still flock to creature features...
There’s an ongoing debate about whether or not so-called “cult classics” can exist in the streaming era. In a world where nearly every film ever made...
As we usher in a brand-new year of genre filmmaking, I think it’s also worth looking back on what did and didn’t work about our previous...
Like Jaws to shark movies and The Exorcist to possession flicks, any dinosaur-related media will inevitably be compared to 1993’s Jurassic Park. While this makes a...
Have you ever noticed that some concepts are so prevalent in popular culture that you’re already familiar with them long before you engage with the stories...
War is hell, and it’s been that way for a very long time. However, when it comes to moviemaking, many filmmakers have difficulty portraying large scale...
Every culture puts its own unique spin on horror tropes, with people from different times and places being frightened by different things. One of the most...
From empty hotel lobbies to dreamscapes comprised of infinitely expanding pools, the rise of liminal horror continues to be one of the most fascinating genre trends...
Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One of the greatest literary hits of the 19th...
Contrary to what many people assume, most forms of film criticism are indifferent to whether or not the ideas present within a movie were placed there...
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