Top 10 Lists
Ten Horror Films Condemned by the Catholic Church
Growing up as a Southern Baptist (i.e., the kind of Christian that shows up to church hungover and 20 minutes late every Sunday morning), pretty much everything I knew about Catholic customs was culle...
Jess Franco: His Top Five Sleaziest Horror Films
This week we have opted to showcase the five sleaziest horror films of Jess Franco. Franco was the prolific director of a series of sexploitation horror pictures. Owning the title of master of sleaze ...
Seven of the Most Shockingly Unconventional Revenge Horrors
Revenge is a tricky proposition in horror cinema. It can take many different forms. Most common are supernatural slashers or rape/revenge features. Horror, being as wide and weird and fluid as it is, ...
10 Important Life Lessons We Learned From ‘The Craft’
The Craft is an institution. Whether you were eight or eighteen when you first saw it, there was something about those four young women that made you stand up and take notice. We wanted to be them and...
How Rude! Bad Manners in Horror Movies
There is no accounting for other people’s manners. Don’t be so disgusting is what my mum used to say at the dinner table while we were eating our stew and talking about a friend who coul...
These Seven Movies Were Blamed for Real-Life Crimes
Horror movies are frequently blamed for any number of things. People say that something has to be wrong with somebody who watches horror. The movies are even blamed for violence in general. If violent...
Seven Horror Movie Villains Who Have Outstayed Their Welcome
The horror movie dynamic often revolves around the story of a victim and an offender. Not necessarily a tale of David & Goliath, but more or less a relationship in which one is prey and the other ...
Bigger is Better: Old-School Giant Monster Flicks That Still Hold Up Remarkably Well
With Kaiju experincing a cinematic resurgance, people are falling in love with ferocious, roaring, giant monsters all over again. Because of that, I thought it would be interesting to go back and look...
Five Horror Director Cameos You Probably Never Noticed
Many directors are fond of appearing in their own work in some capacity or another. Given there are plenty of people who aren’t entirely familiar with what their favorite directors look like, it...