horror movies
Off the Grid: Seven Backwoods Texas Chainsaw Ripoffs That Hold Up
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a fiercely original film that remains one of the best horror movies ever made to this day. It was not the first isolated horror of the 1970s, but i...
How Curse of Frankenstein Did Re-Animator Before Re-Animator
Curse of Frankenstein is one of my favorite Frankenstein adaptation, but I’ll also admit that it’s one of the weirdest, aside from maybe the sci-fi exploits of Frankenstein Unbound. The ...
Back to the ’80s: Body Double
Welcome to Back to the ’80s. This recurring feature aims to take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly from horror’s most beloved decade. Regardless of which category a particul...
How Friday the 13th Part III Was Almost Ruined by Its Own Gimmick
Friday the 13th Part III is one of the most beloved entries in the series canon. It’s an incredibly important feature to the overall franchise, as it is the movie where Jason Voorhees find...
What Happened to Rob Bottin? And More of Horror’s Most Persistent Mysteries
Horror fans know a lot about horror. More than you’d think possible. We love to learn everything we can about our favorite movies and the people who made them. You’d think we’d kn...
Macho Monster Hunters: Is John Carpenter’s Vampires a Sexist Movie?!
This is an extremely tough question for me to consider. Vampires came out at a time when I was only dimly aware of who John Carpenter was. It was the film that cemented him as a presence in my young m...
Why Christine Brown in Drag Me to Hell Deserved Everything She Got
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell is equal parts Evil Dead and Thinner. It’s a supernatural Romani revenge story told through Raimi’s signature style. It’s over-the-top and thing...
Yorkies Never Say Die: Recapping The Movie Crypt 48 Hour Marathon
“My legs are whiter than the Oscars.” “I saw a butthole in that car back there.” These are some of the moments you missed if you did not tune into The Movie Crypt’s ...
What Made The Blair Witch Project Work (Hint: It Wasn’t the Marketing)
I will remember the marketing campaign for The Blair Witch Project as long as I live. As a kid at the dawn of the Internet age, I had never seen anything like it. This movie went out of its way to mak...