horror movies
“Original” Ideas: The Seven IP-Based Horror Movies That Should be Made Next
We live in a world where a film can be made based off of absolutely anything. Angry Birds is already on its way and the Emoji Movie won’t be too far behind that. Some of these, l...
Seven Cinematic Killers With Weaknesses That Don’t Make any Sense
When you’re getting into horror, especially as a kid, it’s fun to learn the various weaknesses of the different movie monsters. After all, when you’re a child, all of those things...
Why I’m Excited for Leatherface (Even Though We Probably Won’t be Seeing it Anytime Soon)
There’s a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie on the way, titled Leatherface. This is the second film in the franchise to bear that moniker. And despite the confusing title, I ...
Why Now is the Best Time to be a Horror Fan
I understand a lot of the complaints against the genre right now. There are absolutely problems that cannot be overlooked. It is harder and harder for original ideas to come to life on the screen. The...
A Brief History of Meta Horror
Meta horror is something we’re starting to see less of now, which makes sense on one hand because it was pretty much capped with Cabin in the Woods. That was the ultimate statement on horror mo...
The Best and Worst Movies of the Halloween Franchise
I love the Halloween franchise. Its highs have been high and its lows have been low, but I’ve been there for all of it. I will readily admit that it’s an incredibly uneven franchise, may...
Horror Personalities Who Deserve Their Place on American Currency
The last thing I want to do with this article, funny as it’s going to try to be, is undercut recent events. Because the truth is that Harriet Tubman earning her place on the $20 bill is an amaz...
Why Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars is So Much Fun In Spite of Itself
People love to complain about remakes. It’s the go-to complaint of the modern horror fan. But even those people, hopefully, would admit that the 1980s was a great time for remakes, particularly...
Big Shoes to Fill: The Problem With the Kaiju Comeback
Kaiju movies might never mean quite what they did to me as a kid. I’ll never be able to recapture that feeling, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them and that they don ...