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Continue readingThe Munster family just keeps growing. The latest update on the wholesome monster household on Mockingbird Lane comes courtesy of “The Munsters” director Rob Zombie. Via his Instagram, the filmmaker revealed that “E.T.: The Extraterrestrial” star and frequent Zombie collaborator Dee Wallace is on board for the new film.Wallace has worked with the shock rock musician […]
Continue readingThe ’80s were a special decade for horror. In a lot of ways, it’s a hard decade to top simply because there are just so many damn good movies from that time period. Of course, the ’70s were a great decade for horror, as well. Without the success of films like “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” […]
Continue readingMichael Myers is seemingly unkillable. There are already a dozen “Halloween” movies, with a (lucky or unlucky?) 13th installment, “Halloween Ends,” on the way this October. While the title of “Halloween Ends” might suggest a definite denouement for David Gordon Green’s recent trilogy — which began with the 2018 “Halloween” and continued last year with […]
Continue reading(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition, Ariel explains why this particular scene in “Hunters” is actually terrifying, and Matt provides an outsider’s perspective.)The notion of horror and what scares us is wholly […]
Continue readingHorror movies for the most part tend to have microscopic budgets. Even relatively speaking, considering most mainstream movies cost many multiples of millions to get off the ground. With that said, some horror movies go on to make a tidy sum at the box office, while others make a downright killing. These 19 horror titles took […]
Continue readingReady for another legacy requel? Aka, a film, much like “Halloween” (2018), that disregards the entire canon of all the sequels that have arrived since the original opened and takes place after the events of the first film, acting as a new “proper” sequel? That’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” from a filmmaking team that includes Fede […]
Continue readingWhen there’s no more room in Hell, the IP will walk the earth. It’s all about look-backs and revivals these days. The slasher subgenre is enjoying resurgences of its “Scream,” “Texas Chainsaw,” “Candyman,” and “Halloween” franchises, while streaming services are banking on nostalgia with the ’80s-stylized “Stranger Things” and a revival of the iconic “Unsolved Mysteries” […]
Continue readingWith Jamie Lee Curtis returning to “Halloween,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” dusting off the Ecto-1, and the “Jurassic Park” universe ever-expanding, it was only a matter of time before “Scream” got in on the legacy sequel game. The fifth film in the franchise is the first since original director Wes Craven’s death, and as such, has a […]
Continue readingYou might think of “Halloween” as the patriarch of the slasher film sub-genre, but John Carpenter’s iconic horror movie has a formidable older sister. Before Michael Meyers was stalking the streets of Haddonfield, there was a psycho prowling a college campus, killing off sorority sisters one by one. “Black Christmas” might not always get its […]
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