Editorials
Jorel O’ Dell Discusses the Cinematography of HURT
The wait is finally over for Sonny Mallhi’s slasher film, Hurt. Originally premiering at Fantasia Fest in 2018, the film is now available in select theaters and VOD/digital platforms thanks to ...
Have Horror Movies made you Automatonophobic?
A phobia is an extreme or irrational fear or aversion to something, real or imaginary and there are many common phobias such as germaphobia (fear of germs) or acrophobia (fear of heights). “Tho...
We Should Be Talking About There’s Someone Inside Your House [Editorial]
Conventional wisdom suggests the slasher genre has had its heyday, technically twice (once in the eighties and again in the late nineties/early 2000s), and is done, which is why we’re getting m...
Director of The Omen, Richard Donner Passes Away
Today is a very sad in the world of cinema, as we here at Wicked Horror, regret to announce the unfortunate passing of legendry director Richard Donner. Donner was the director of major Hollywood ...
Is The Crow: City of Angels Really THAT Bad?
The Crow is one of the most emotional, powerful horror/action movies ever made. It still hits all the right notes for me. I still feel something every single time I watch it and that’s really a...
10 Years Later, Let’s Acknowledge Scream 4 is a Perfect Movie
Scream 4 does something pretty remarkable for a slasher sequel by capturing everything we loved about the original movie while also staking a claim for itself as a compelling, fresh take on its mythos...
How Revenge R Us Succeeds at Being Even Worse than Chicken Chicken [Goosebumps Rewind]
Goosebumps Rewind is a feature where we take a look back at the best (and worst) of the R.L. Stine-created youth fiction series. In the inaugural installment, we will be looking back on ‘Reveng...
We Need to Talk About The Vast of Night [Editorial]
Plenty of movies are set in the olden times to paper over the cracks in their otherwise thin stories. Maybe, the filmmakers seem to be thinking, if there’s a TV set with a massive antenna pokin...
Why It’s so Hard to Trace the Origins of the Slasher Movie
There’s an endless debate as to what the first slasher movie actually is. Looking back on it, I think it’s a subject that warrants further investigation. But it doesn’t do any goo...