John Carpenter is a living legend. He will always be one of the icons of the horror genre for the work he’s given us in a career that spans over forty years. Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, ...
We get a lot of horror movies about haunted houses. Or haunted hotels. Or cabins in the woods. These places are big, isolated, and they feed on a feeling of anxiety and loneliness. There’s a re...
It’s been a few years since we’ve seen a film adaptation of Clive Barker’s work. That’s unfortunate, because he is and always has been one of the best storytellers in the b...
Movies are supposed to have ‘up’ endings. The hero confronts evil and defeats it. We leave the theater empowered. We believe that somehow, by paying fifteen bucks and watching someone do...
Count Dracula is one of the most iconic figures in horror, if not the most iconic. He is the second most filmed fictional character after Sherlock Holmes. It’s only natural that many, many movi...
One of the best things about being a horror fan is discovering all of the weird tie-in merchandise for your favorite movies and franchises. Many if not most of the classics have received novelizations...
As someone who loves comics based on horror movies, I was delighted by the news that two of my now-ten-year-old favorites—Behind the Mask and Hatchet—will be making the leap to comics. I...
It is, as Disney is wont to remind us, a tale as old as time. There have been too many versions of Beauty and the Beast to count. There’s an element of the story in many of the most classic hor...
Kong: Skull Island dominated the box office this past weekend and seemed to generate some pretty positive response. While previous incarnations of Kong—at least in America—have more or l...