Editorials
TV Slashers: The New Trend That Shouldn’t Work (But Really Does)
The slasher formula was designed for the time restraints of a motion picture–and not for a particularly long one, either. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Black Christmas and most of their ilk all ba...
How the Monster Squad Sequel Could Work
There’s been some interest lately in a sequel to The Monster Squad. Co-writer Shane Black gave an interview recently in which he not only talked the possibility of a sequel, but also sort of fo...
Where Are All the Modern Scream Queens?
The 1980s gave us so many horror icons. We got Jason, Freddy, Pinhead, and Chucky. Michael Myers got sequelized and proved he could play with the big boys, as did Leatherface. All of these characters ...
The Argument Over True Sentient Intelligence
Movies like Maximum Overdrive, Terminator, and I, Robot focus heavily on the concept of humans beings versus sentient intelligence. Sentient intelligence is different than artificial intelligence, a t...
Fear and Loathing: The Weird Evolution of Horror Icons in the 90s
The 1990s were an interesting time for horror. For a while, there was a need to make everything new. To make things fresh and different. This need eventually went away, but not before leaving a lastin...
Has The Shallows Ushered In A New Era Of Sharksploitation?
As difficult as it is to be a slasher fanatic (particularly nowadays–eek), it’s even harder being obsessed with sharksploitation. I mean, there are very few movies to which the l...
Macho Monster Hunters: Is John Carpenter’s Vampires a Sexist Movie?!
This is an extremely tough question for me to consider. Vampires came out at a time when I was only dimly aware of who John Carpenter was. It was the film that cemented him as a presence in my young m...
Is Child’s Play Actually the Most Competent Modern Horror Franchise?
This is a bold statement, so hear me out. I’m not saying Child’s Play is my favorite horror franchise, although I certainly don’t bash anyone who regards it as such. I’m no...
The Incredible Pseudoscience Of Cryptozoology
Monsters in our folklore typically stay within the confines of the tales in which they exist, but a lucky few manage to escape the world of myth and find new life as subjects ...