Retrospectives
How Interview With the Vampire Defined A-List Horror in the 1990s
Horror movies in the late ‘90s were defined by Scream. Everything followed on its heels and tried to imitate that movie. I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine, Cherry Falls, ...
Don’t Wanna Dream No More: How A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Empowered the Slasher Genre
The slasher genre has always fallen under a critical eye for showcasing the deaths of teenagers as gratuitous fun. They are generalized as having no characterization and no depth of any kind. The...
Giallo Madness: Black Belly of the Tarantula
Giallo Madness is a recurring segment where Wicked Horror managing editor Tyler Doupe’ looks back on a noteworthy giallo from years past and makes a case for why it should be on your radar....
Mannequin Challenge: Reflecting on the Beautiful Weirdness of Tourist Trap
Most horror films from the 1970s fall into certain set categories. Some of them, admittedly, created those categories, but that’s still where we typically consider them to reside. For example, ...
How Carnosaur Beat Jurassic Park to the Punch (We Can’t Believe it Either)
Carnosaur is widely known as a rip off of Jurassic Park. The idea makes sense. After all, Jurassic Park was the biggest hit of 1993 and it built up a lot of hype even before it was released, making it...
Why Ghost Story is a Muddled Adaptation (That’s Still Scary as Hell)
Peter Straub’s Ghost Story is one of the scariest—if not the scariest—books I’ve ever read in my life. It’s a powerful, deeply character driven novel that takes a co...
How Night of the Demons: Re-Envisioned Demonic Possession Movies
Kevin Tenney’s Night of the Demons is, without a doubt, a B-Movie. It doesn’t pretend to be anything else. That’s sort of what makes it work as well as it does. Night of the Demon...
Why Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey is Actually a Horror Movie
As hard as it is to make a good sequel to a horror movie, it’s almost impossible for a comedy. There are exceptions, like National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Wayne’s World 2...
How One of the Best Horror Comics Became One of the Most Troubled Comic Book Movies
When we think of successful comics, we mostly think of Marvel and DC. That’s because, for a huge chunk of time, those were really the only two companies that had kind of serious success. A crea...