Features
How Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace Perfected The Horror Parody
The horror-parody has long been a divisive genre. There are certainly established classics like Young Frankenstein, but for every Young Frankenstein there are five Scary Movie films. This makes the sh...
Dr. Giggles Isn’t As Bad as You Remember: Here’s Why [Editorial]
Sure, Dr. Giggles is far from perfect but one must stop to consider that it came out at a time when the horror genre was at an all-time low. Studio horror pictures were at a staggering halt;...
Writer-director Josh Lobo Talks I Trapped The Devil [Interview]
The past few years have gifted us some notable debut features in the form of Robert Eggers’ The Witch, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, to name just th...
The Hitcher (2007) Fails to Recapture the Magic of its Predecessor [Retrospective]
In The Hitcher (2007), a young couple sets out on a road trip. When they make the ill-fated decision not to pick up a hitchhiker, they make an enemy for life. When the couple happens upon th...
Tyler Labine Talks Escape Room, The Art of Quipping, and His All-Time Favorite Psychological Thriller
Tyler Labine rocketed to genre fame with the cult-following of the horror/comedy Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Alongside Alan Tudyk, Labine brought innocence, humor, and authenticity to a now beloved class...
Escape Room Director, Adam Robitel, Dives Deep Into the Film and its Upcoming Sequel [Exclusive]
Adam Robitel has had a promising career thus far. His first feature, The Taking of Deborah Logan, was the exact indie-horror many first-time filmmakers hope for. The film had success on home medi...
The Wild Optimists Spill Their Guts About Escape Room in a Box [Exclusive]
Wicked Horror had the good fortune to spend some time chatting with The Wild Optimists (Ariel Rubin and Juliana Patel) the ultra talented and surprisingly humble women behind the new board game sensat...
Script to Pieces: The Big Screen Buffy Reboot
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Not Quite Horror: Hold The Dark (2018)
Not Quite Horror is back from the dead. After resting for a bit in its kind-of creepy but still-normal-enough-to-pass-as-regular crypt, our biweekly series returns. In each installment, Joey Keog...