slasher movies
Is It Just Me Or Is Scream 3 A Decent Sequel?
In this new, monthly series, a Wicked Horror writer presents an unpopular opinion about a particular genre offering and asks the oft-repeated question, “Is it just me?” In this installme...
Why Halloween H20 is a Surprisingly Sincere Love Letter to the Original
The Halloween franchise took many twists and turns as it spawned sequel after sequel through the 1980’s. Halloween II followed up the original as closely as possible, Halloween III took th...
Why A New Beginning is the Most Unsung Friday the 13th Movie
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is, as I have written before, is the ultimate Jason Voorhees movie. It’s the perfect embodiment of all things Friday the 13th. It did not, however, ...
Five Recent Movies That Prove the Slasher Film Isn’t Dead
The heyday of the slasher was from roughly 1981 to 1984. This is an extremely short amount of time, but there were plenty of movies that helped to define that genre well before that. Psycho, Texa...
Horror Remakes That Missed the Point of the Original
Horror movie remakes can be both good and bad simultaneously. Some reboots are wonderful technical achievements but fail at recapturing the magic of the original. Many remakes may even ...
Five Great Horror Films From Female Directors
To be blunt, there simply aren’t enough women working in horror. Female writers and directors are a rarity. That doesn’t mean that women aren’t interested in horror, far from it. ...
Overlooked and Underrated: Video Violence
Video Violence is probably the best of the shot-on-video horror sub-genre, which is not great by definition. It’s a different mentality, it’s true no-budget filmmaking and the movies ...
Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter: The Essential Jason Movie
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Of course the film turned out to not be as the title promised. But nonetheless it is a fan-favorite and an essential sl...
Varsity Blood is an Homage to ’80s Horror
Varsity Blood centers on a high school cheerleading squad and football team that take to an abandoned farmhouse for a Halloween celebration. They plan to screw, smoke drugs, and paint the town red. Wh...