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If you love pets and licensed slasher movie products, it's going to be a GREAT autumn.

Your Pet Is Going To Love Halloween This Year

Get ready for a deluge of slasher movie tie-in pet products this fall — in fact, they might already be on store shelves near you!

Pumpkin Spice deodorant is now a thing, in case you ever wondered what Jack Skellington probably smells like.

Pumpkin Spice Deodorant is Now A Thing

Pumpkin Spice deodorant is now officially a thing thanks to Old Spice's Halloween-scented Pumpking product!

Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan is a perfect example of the "fight or flight" response in action.

Horror is Healing: Fight, Flight, or Fright?

Guest writer Sarah Sinn demonstrates how horror helps us understand our fight or flight response. Time to activate those amygdalas!

The heroines of KPop Demon Hunters really don't need an introduction at this point, huh?

IS IT HORROR? KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

KPop Demon Hunters was a worldwide sensation in 2025. But underneath the catchy songs and snazzy animation, is it a LEGIT horror flick?

Emily Blunt predicts more than the weather in Disclosure Day ...

HORROR-ADJACENT: Disclosure Day (2026)

Disclosure Day should’ve been called Close Encounters of the Bored Kind Disclosure Day is a film that feels like it should’ve come out in 2003 or something. It’s a very dated movie a...

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Wicked Horror is recruiting new writers, photographers, columnists, video makers, commentary talking heads and MORE!

Masters of the Universe is basically what happens when you make Barbie and Battlefield Earth the *same* movie.

HORROR ADJACENT: Masters of the Universe (2026)

Move over Transformers; Mattel tries to turn He-Man into the next resurrected '80s cash cow franchise with a rebooted Masters of the Universe.

1977's Fight For Your Life is a home-invasion thriller unlike any other.

Fight For Your Life Is The Next Halloween Classic

Fight For Your Life is an obscure, late ’70s home invasion thriller with a VERY timely message    We’re always looking for the next cult hit Halloween movie — and Fi...

Bela Tarr's 1994 arthouse classic Satantango *might* be a low-key horror movie ...

IS IT HORROR? Satantango (1994)

Bela Tarr's seven-hour-long Satantango is widely hailed as a '90s arthouse classic. But at its heart, is it *just* a regular old horror movie?