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The Best Female-Led Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix
Hungry for some horror? Netflix has a library of endless frights, courtesy of body horror flicks, psychological thrillers, haunted house tales, and more. Since its inception, horror has always been a genre where women have thrived in their fight to survive monsters, men, and supernatural entities that seek to destroy them. With the popularization of […]
Continue readingGreg Nicotero Used Season 9 Of The Walking Dead As His Tribute To The Evil Dead
Greg Nicotero’s work on “The Walking Dead” as a director and special effects make-up supervisor has been nothing short of spectacular. The renowned multi-hyphenate has a long, meaningful history with the horror genre, from his contributions to several horror cult classics to his friendship with former colleague and special effects make-up veteran Tom Savini. Since […]
Continue readingHow Alan Arkin Sheltered Abigail Breslin From Little Miss Sunshine’s Adult Language
It’s sometimes hard to comprehend whether child actors in R-rated films can be shielded from the adult themes in the films that surround them. At 12 years old, Chloë Grace Moretz was instructed in “Kick-Ass” to repeat nearly every curse word that exists, and a few years later, Jacob Tremblay appeared in one of horror’s […]
Continue readingContest: Win A Copy Of The New ‘Halloween’ Trilogy On 4K
We love movies, we love the holidays, and we love contests. So this holiday week, we are combining all three by teaming up with Universal Studios.In 1978, John Carpenter and Debra Hill released the first “Halloween” movie. Centered around Michael Myers, the film focuses on his escape from an asylum and the killing spree he […]
Continue readingHow to Watch The Nightmare Before Christmas
Let’s get this settled right away. There isn’t and cannot be an ultimate holiday movie list unless it has and begins with The Nightmare Before Christmas. This 90s dark fantasy film is a fine balance of dark and cute, with the Halloween spook paving the way for the holiday mood. Also known as Tim Burton’s […]
Continue readingHow Black Christmas Led to the Creation of Halloween
When looking at the history of the slasher genre, it seems to start for many with John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978. Yes, there was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1960, but it’s remembered more as a psychological film rather than as a straight-up slasher. There was also Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 1974, […]
Continue readingThe Next Step in the ‘Halloween’ Franchise Should Be a TV Series
The past several decades have been ruled by a few franchises in the horror genre. There have been countless films with increasingly silly and convoluted sequels about film character legends such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Norman Bates, and Chucky. Even Evil Dead and The Exorcist are coming back to cinemas soon. Myers […]
Continue readingThe Book That Started John Carpenter’s Love Of Horror
Throughout the course of his career, John Carpenter has directed horror movies that have redefined the genre in several ways. His 1978 horror classic, “Halloween” is nothing less than a full-blown pop culture phenomenon, and his lesser-known films, such as “Prince of Darkness,” is still being discovered by horror-heads. Carpenter’s legacy obviously extends beyond his […]
Continue readingHalloween Review: The 1978 Original Doesn’t Quite Live Up To Its Legacy
Halloween (1978) has a perfect credits sequence for a film centered around that holiday. It also has a chilling first scene, as the jack-o’-lantern segues into a first-person perspective of someone spying on Judith Myers and her boyfriend on Halloween night. Film students eager for a lesson in suspense need look no further. The length […]
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