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The Boy Who Lived: What Makes Tommy Jarvis a Fan-Favorite Horror Hero

Michael Myers has Doctor Loomis. Freddy Krueger has Nancy Thompson. And Jason Voorhees has Tommy Jarvis. The difference here is that while most heroes originate in the same film as the villain, we don...

‘The Haunting of Hill House’ Remains Perfect Five Years On From Release

A lot can happen in five years. Personally, I went from a youngish guy with tons of dreams and aspirations, to being five years older with those exact same dreams and aspirations. My point is that tim...

Campfire Tales 1997

‘Campfire Tales’ is an Unexpectedly Great Anthology (That No One Remembers)

The ‘80s is sort of remembered as the heyday of horror anthology films, giving us classics like Creepshow 1 & 2, Twilight Zone: The Movie, From a Whisper to a Scream, Cat’s Eye, and ...

Psycho II is Almost as Good as the Original: Here’s Why!

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the best horror movies ever made. It’s often cited as the best and for good reason. It’s the kind of feature that was not getting made in Ameri...

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Helped Define the Gory Excess of the 1990s

So many people, even now, believe the 1980s to be a golden age in horror history. By extension, the 1990s is believed to be an incredibly dull period. Many people say that horror was dead in that deca...

King Kong

Why King Kong ’76 is a Bizarre Remake (But Not a Terrible One)

King Kong may not be remembered as such, but it is one of the biggest horror movies of all time. When it hit theaters in 1933, people had not seen anything quite like it. It was full of adventure, ful...

Escape from New York

Why ‘Escape from New York’ Worked So Well Without Backstory

Escape from New York is one of John Carpenter’s best films. After the double horror hits of Halloween and The Fog, Escape from New York returned Carpenter to the sci-fi and action roots he ...

Night Flier - Criminally underrated Stephen king movies

Taking Flight: Looking Back on The Simplistic Brilliance of ‘Night Flier’

Stephen King’s work has always been deeply connected. And while some of the film adaptations have made a few references here and there, the features made by hardcore fans definitely made homage...

From Dusk Till Dawn

Why From Dusk Till Dawn is Still Going Strong After More Than 20 Years

More than twenty-five years ago, filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino spun the vampire genre on its head with From Dusk Till Dawn. In that time, the film has only grown in popularity, hav...